Pilot's Log

Still decompressing from being my sister's chauffeur to Jawjaw to take delivery of her new-to-her VW Beetle. The dealers did a great job on 1) spiffing up the car 2) being nice to her and making the paperwork go smoothly and easily for her.

She and her fiance are both very excited to get the car and I'm sure they'll go for a joyride after Church today.

I drove Sis' outgoing (but not sold yet) Honda Odyssey and got my first taste of Cruise Control. (I can't remember if my car actually has CC or not.) Okay. It's useful. But to me it's also a little scary.

...or cars.com has a real BUG in it.

Just spent the midday running to car dealerships to check to see whether the Volkswagen Beetles they had for sale were in fact Diesel-powered. Nope, they weren't.

I am shopping on behalf of my elder sister, who is selling off her Honda minivan as with Gennie going to college she doesn't need such a big vehicle...and wants something cute that can run on bioDiesel. And so a diesel Beetle would be ideal.

So she looked up cars.com and keyworded "diesel" in her search...

Only, as I found out, cars.com has defaults on what information they add to a car's listing if the dealer only gives the VIN number. And sometimes the information is faulty...like as to whether a specific car runs on diesel or ordinary gasoline.

Later tonight I have to give Sis the bad news. :( Diesel Beetles are RARE critters indeed...catching one is going to take a real safari effort.

FP