Subaru and the Many Hats of Mom

 In 1991 I bought my first new car. I had some very specific wants for my new car.  I had just graduated college and I was, for the first time, getting a car that was not a hand me down from a family member.  I had spent months dreaming about what was important to me in a new car.

The first and most important thing was that the new car be an automatic. I was sick and tired of driving a manual transmission in LA bumper to bumper traffic. Next I wanted cloth seats. My first car had been a Black 1972 Cadillac Coupe de Ville with black leather seats. I still have
scars from sitting on those seats after they had heated to 9,000 degrees parked in the sun all day. Speaking of sitting in the sun all day, I also needed air conditioning, I couldn't afford to arrive at my new job wilted from driving with the window down hoping for a cool breeze.

And lastly but certainly not least I wanted cup holders. Now some of you reading this might not remember when cars didn't have cup holders, but I do and I wanted cup holders BAD.

Now I am a mom and my needs have changed quite a bit from when I was a young twenty something single
career girl. But my need for cup holders has only intensified. As a mom anything less that 8 cup holders in a car is unconscionable. But other than cup holders there a certain things that are a must in the mommy car. Now I welcome leather seats. This is because of the number of times people have thrown up in my car. And not the fun naked wasted throw up either. It is the two year old has the flu, projectile vomiting which causes a chain reaction among all the other riders in the car kind of throw up.

Leather seats and rubber floor mats make vomit clean up easier. If a car company really wanted to sell vehicles they would put a place in the back for a paper towel roll and a tissue box holder in each door in the back. This would help the mommies keep boogery kids clean, while making clean up in isle 2 easier for all spills etc.

I have had the pleasure of putting the Subaru Forester through its paces to see if it can handle all the jobs I do as a mommy. In the next few articles I will be talking about how well the Subaru Forester performed each of my many jobs. Frankly I think it would be difficult for any one car to do EVERYTHING but the Forester is a great wing man for mom.

My Subaru Forester came very well equipped with leather seats,  AM/FM/XM radio with CD player, GPS, Sun Roof, 8 cup holders seating for 5 ( A little cramped but we got 3 big teen aged boys in the back seat), all weather package with heated front seats, (mama REALLY likes that), phone intergration and a full tank of gas all for a sticker price of only $29,920 plus all the blah blah blah taxes.


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