Good news

Our car is being repaired, not written off.  So we only have to find money for the deductable, and the warrantee-required maintenance that we had been anticipating this month.  But non-the-less, it's still a wake up call about long term planning for replacing the "beast".  We've sure learned that neither of us would be happy with one of the small run-around-town "city" cars that we see.