I've never owned a truly "new" car until we bought our 05 HCH last april. I was a little paranoid the first couple of weeks we had it, thinking that someone was going to slam into us. Well, unfortunately, it happend to my wife.
http://www.greenhybrid.com/share/image530.html
The damage isn't too bad, about $990 to replace the back bumper, and the left tailight that has a hole in it.
This was a low impact collision. My wife was backing out with
"2 monster suv's on each side of me", she said. As she slowly pulled out, unbeknown to her, a 75 year old woman was driving behind her, saw my wife pulling out, and in her own words later said,
"Oh I wasn't sure if I could get by you or not. I didn't know whether to stop or keep going. Guess I didn't make it! I am so sorry."
How about trying this, STOP!!!
STOP!!!
STOP!!!
Ack, I couldn't believe it when my wife told me that's what happened. Well, old people get flustered, and my wife was technically at fault. (There goes our insurance rates.) And the most important thing, no one was hurt.
Anyway, it will have a happy ending next week when it gets put back together, and I will have totally gotten over the "new" car syndrome.
Anyone else wreck their hybrid yet?
Hope not.