zen and the art of choosing cars!

Finally, after much debate, head-scratching, opinion poll of family members, we have bought a Zen Estilo. He wanted it before his parents come over on Thursday so it was sort of a hurried decision - of course we have spent many hours debating on whether we want to go in for a big car now – his dream CRV – or settle for a smaller car which we can dispose of later but i felt we were rushing it a bit. And since loan processing would have taken some days, he decided we should pay for it in cash so that we could get the car on Thursday. i didn’t feel like raining on his parade so i went along with his plan.

He wanted a WagonR because he didn’t like the look of the Estilo – well, truth be told, i don’t like either one of them but hell, the lesser of the two devils. We spent almost two hours at the showroom trying to make up our minds – he being a bit miffed that i didn’t go along with his choice. Oh great! i mean, people ask for your opinion and when you give them your opinion, they actually get offended that your choice is not to their liking! Anyway, there we were, checking out the two cars – oscillating between the two. In the end, i asked him to go for WagonR and he insisted on going for Estilo! God! His logic was that after he gets his CRV, i can drive the Estilo! Given a choice, i would dispose it and get myself something bigger – like a truck. Anyway, after looking at the features, we decided to ignore the not-too-impressive snub-faced look of the Estilo and went for it. S says it looks like a frog. i feel it looks more like a bug whose face has been squashed. But, as long as it can take us places, oh hell, does looks really matter? Oh well, it does. The only consolation is that we are not going to stick to it for a lifetime, so there.

And i am going bonkers about the 3D plan – we downloaded the trial version and god, am i impressed. We stayed up till 1 yesterday designing the blueprint of the flat. This is an excellent tool!