Our Japanese Cars

I know this might seem lame that we are posting pictures of our cars, but our families want to see them and we need it for our journal :)

These last 3 weeks were quite interesting as we searched for cars. The Japanese are heavily taxed for driving older cars however US Military members are exempt from this tax. This leaves plenty of older yet practically unused cars for Americans to buy.

Most of the cars available on or near the base are between the years of 1991-1998. As you can imagine we looked at some pretty funky cars. One of my favorites had curtains behind the front seats blocking out the rest of the car. If only it had a sound proof window we would have definitely bought it :0

So, here's what we found...

This is our family car. Our Mitsubishi Chariot Grandis has less than 20,000 miles on it and looks & feels practically brand new (except that it's 12 years old). The previous owner obviously didn't drive or use it much. The fabric on the inside is definitely "1997 looking", but we absolutely love the car! It's big enough to haul us and our stuff around(seats 7), but small enough that we're not scared to drive on these TINY Japanese roads.

And the Civic has been a fabulous car. Besides the funky black, grey, blue, & purple fabric on the inside you would have no idea it was 14 years old :)

You won't believe it, but these smaller cars sell for about $500-$1500 and the larger ones for about $1000-$2500. Isn't that AWESOME! You can imagine how excited we were to purchase TWO cars for less than $4000. We love these Japanese cars & prices!!!