If you have been reading this blog; and I ask the question...why not?; we lost a good friend over the past two weeks. Henry our Ford Focus wagon was destroyed in an accident here in Regina. Being without a set of wheels for transportation in the Province of Saskatchewan is not ideal so the search was on for a new member to the family.

We studied various makes and models for fuel consumption, safety rating and then started our quest to adopt a new member of the family. After looking at several different private deals and dealer lots we narrowed our search to a specific diesel model coupe in the top of the model range with as many options as possible with the lowest possible kilometres. After narrowing it down, we discovered a newcomer to Saskatchewan just arriving from Alberta. After receiving a clean bill of health and a zero accident report this 2006 grey Smart Passion CDI Coupe with only 42,000 km is now living where Henry used to park.

Yet unnamed the new wheels are doing well with a diesel consumption almost bang on with the governments ratings, 29.7 km per litre. Drives like a dream has more creature comforts than Henry and everyone checks it out. We won't ever forget Henry and the three years we had him in our family. but the new guy is sure trying hard to make us...yep we know that it's a boy.