Thinking of a new vehicle for the wife

[Bailey Guns]

I gotta go with sniper and hghclss... My wife has a 2012 Traverse. Talk about room inside. Real seating for 8 adults. Or fold the seats down for enough room for the in-laws to live in for a week. She drives up and down the hill daily from Bailey to work in Denver and averages 22 - 23 mpg and it's AWD. Paid maintenance for the first two years. Quietest car I've been in...ever. She's very happy with it and she's a hard-core Subaru convert. The Traverse/Enclave/Acadia consistently rank near the top in owner satisfaction surveys. Only downside is the 12 was subject to seatbelt and airbag recalls. Waiting on parts for the seatbelt, airbag is done and took less than 1/2 hour. Elway gave her some service freebies for having to come in a second time for the recalls. And it's very inexpensive to insure for some reason. High end full coverage with $100 deductibles is less than $450 year. I think it's the least expensive car we've ever insured.

She didn't like the 12 Equinox because the seat fabric looked like a hooker wearing fishnets blew up inside it. The newer ones have very nice interior schemes but are smaller inside, of course, than the Traverse.

She also liked the Kia Sorento but couldn't find one with a V6.

Lots of good incentives and financing deals on the 14s now, too.