Thursday, 26 March 2015

Safety is top priority for Moms looking at a car purchase

Toronto Star story lists top 10 amenities wanted in a family vehicle

By Mark Schadenberg
As a Realtor, I always point out the importance of creating your prioritized top 10 list of amenities you seek in a home purchase – ingredients for number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, size of lot, garage or not, location (neighbourhood), older or newer, big eat-in kitchen or formal dining room or both, bungalow or back split or traditional two-storey, and your top dollar you can spend based on your income and your comfort level (and what you have been pre-qualified for).

Now, if you were going to purchase a family car, would you not want the same idea?
The website www.wheels.ca, which is part of the Toronto Star family of publications (printed or on the internet or both) has determined its list of leading features which includes storage space, the ease of installing children's seats, safety air bags, built-in entertainment features such as TV and DVD, and some true convenience abilities such as keyless starting and automatic sliding doors.
The featured Toronto Star article is by mom Miriam Porter and she says:

“Your days of reckless sport cars and sexy convertibles are over. As a parent you seek safety, security, easy access and lots and lots of room. . .
In search of other criteria that parents look for in a family car I polled numerous friends, acquaintances and parents in baby groups, many with two or three kids, some with four.
With this information I compiled a list of the top ten things many parents consider before purchasing a new family car.”
The extensive lists on the Toronto Star site include comparisons of fuel efficiency, car styles, luxury sedans, best green car, best off-road, best pick-up truck and certainly top overall car by the various contributing pundits / reviewers / test drivers.
Also easily discovered on their website is a story which recognizes Toyota (including TMMC in Woodstock which builds the RAV4) for its 'green' initiatives. The link is also below and notes other successes of Toyota including the landmark day in September of 2014 when the company rolled out its 6,000,000 car manufactured in Canada.


With highlights noted on the recent international car show in Toronto, the www.wheels.ca site also navigates car buffs and buyers to trends, modifications, and improvements in the countless makes and models, but also includes hundreds of car reviews by dozens of writers. The reviews are important as the site also assists car buyers by looking at previous model years and their re-sale positives and negatives.
I didn't want to complete this writing by simply mentioning Toyota locally, so there are links below to Equinox (pictured below) updates as well, including the massive investment GM is making in the Ingersoll CAMI facility.

LINKS:
http://markroyallepage.blogspot.com/2015/02/fabulous-news-for-ingersolls-cami-from.html?spref=tw

RAV4


Mark Schadenberg, Sales Representative
Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal LePage Triland Realty
757 Dundas St, Woodstock
www.wesellwoodstock.com
(519) 537-1553, cell or text
Email: mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter: markroyallepage
Facebook: Mark Schadenberg, Royal LePage Triland

Discussion . . . Direction . . . Determination . . . Destination

No comments:

Post a Comment