{"id":21230,"date":"2025-10-16T19:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21230"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:08:30","slug":"mobile-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21230","title":{"rendered":"Mobile again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I apologize for wasting bandwidt<\/strong>h on my petty struggles with internal combustion transportation issues. But having endured so much on the topic already, you deserve the closure of being informed that I did buy a new (used) car today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brandywinebooks.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/929e9c1b-bb30-4a62-bfd2-92b434cd4ec1.jpg?resize=474%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brandywinebooks.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/929e9c1b-bb30-4a62-bfd2-92b434cd4ec1.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brandywinebooks.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/929e9c1b-bb30-4a62-bfd2-92b434cd4ec1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brandywinebooks.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/929e9c1b-bb30-4a62-bfd2-92b434cd4ec1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my \u201cnew\u201d car \u2013 a 2009 Toyota Rav-4 (dealer\u2019s photo). It\u2019s a bare-bones model, with no \u201csmart\u201d features I\u2019m aware of, other than the remote key fob. It\u2019s a southern car, so there\u2019s little rust on it, always a nice thing up here in Road Salt Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It turned out to have higher mileage than advertised, so I persuaded the dealer to knock a couple hundred bucks off his asking price (when a Norwegian does this, I believe, there\u2019s someplace he can apply for a medal. I\u2019ll have to look it up). It drives nicely, as far as I can tell so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My favorite thing (aside from the pretty color) is that it takes regular gas. The Subaru only accepted high test, and it got worse mileage than this one does. So that cheered me considerably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toyotas have a good reputation for reliability. Pray, if you will, that that will prove true for this marginal writer and Viking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize for wasting bandwidth on my petty struggles with internal combustion transportation issues. But having endured so much on the topic already, you deserve the closure of being informed that I did buy a new (used) car today. This is my \u201cnew\u201d car \u2013 a 2009 Toyota Rav-4 (dealer\u2019s photo). It\u2019s a bare-bones model, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[3866,5732],"class_list":["post-21230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-automobiles","tag-toyota-rav-4"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21233,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230\/revisions\/21233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}