I have been car shopping for the past 2 days. I have a '91 chevy with a 350 in it. I am lucky if I get 15 mpg. So I went to 13 car dealerships. I want a sporty 2 door with good gas mileage. After looking at 100 cars and falling in love with a 2002 mustang, which are my favorite cars, we went to another few car dealerships. I didn't test drive the mustang and the car salesman didn't even push us. He never asked if I wanted to drive it and at that point I didn't want to. I told DH if it is there Monday then it was meant to be. I was giving up on finding a car. I had seen an Olds Alero that I liked but wasn't calling me. One place had a Kia Spectra, which I liked but it had a knocking noise when we turned it on. Not interested in that. We decided to go home for the day and DH said oh let's just check this last place, which we don't usually go to. A lady salesperson came out, my age and asked if she could help us. DH said the car was for me and she talked to ME the rest of the time. All the other salesmen would talk to DH. She asked what i wanted. I said a used car, sporty, 2 door, good gas mileage. She showed me what they had and I said no and then she said I know what you are looking for. And towards the end of the line there was a Cougar. I had never seen one before or paid attention to them. it looked nice and then she pulled it out of the spot and it was exactly for me. So DH and I test drove it and my 13 year old son is just going nuts over this car. I even sat in the back while DH drove and the back seats are really comfortable, even DH liked the back seats. Smooth ride, great handling, huge trunk and for me good gas mileage. I live in the country so I get highway mpg and this one gets 29. So now I am in heaven. She says should we ring it up and I said no, I need to think about it and DH is looking under the hood and I said well what do you think, He says it is a '99 with 78, 000 miles, not to bad and the price was awesome and the car is in mint shape.No marks on it, the inside is clean, had one owner , non smoker and never drove it in the winter. So needless to say we signed the paperwork and we will go to our bank Monday morning and see which loan we will go with. I couldn't sleep last night, I want the car now. I loved the saleslady , she listened to what I wanted and knew just the car. My 15 year old son doesn't know as he wasn't with us. DS#2 said he will love it. As he drives next year. DH and my kids know how much I have wanted a Mustang, since I was 10 years old. But I figure with my 2 boys driving soon, I would rather something happened to the Cougar than the Mustang. I can get that when they get their own cars. I also am lucky if I put on 5,000 miles on my cars a year so we weren't worried about the gas mileage or year. All of our vehicles we have had we drive to the ground. My last car had 200,000 miles on it and was still running great when I got the van. Now the van I am sick of and have about 150,000. DH said we will sell that ourselves and whatever I get I can put in a new stereo system in the Cougar, as it didn't have a CD player. So when I get the car I will have DS#1 take a pic of it with me in it :-)