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[MineralMan]

123. That wasn't available when I needed a car, so I haven't looked at it.

But it looks like it will be priced about $10K more than we could have afforded anyhow. A lot of the vehicles mentioned by some posters were out of our price window, which was a very narrow one. Others aren't comfortable for this tall old guy. There are many factors. We checked out the Kia Rio hatchback, but the low seating and cramped interior space didn't work for us, even though it was $1000 less in price. The same was true for the other subcompacts we considered. Reviews pointed out their limited space, and that wasn't what we were looking for. The actual number of cars we would have considered was very, very small. Worse, the base models that fit our price range were not available at the end of the 2012 model year. I did a lot of research in the day before we bought. We were stuck with no running car, so we had to act immediately.

Yeah, we're happy with the Soul. It works out exactly right for our needs.