Thanks for the warm welcome, and I will definitely check out MatrixOwners.

Here are a couple of photos of my car, when it was still on the CarMax lot.

We just bought a 2008 Matrix to replace the 2003 Honda Element that my daughter wrecked. I loved the Element, but used ones in good condition were out of our price range at this time. (We also have a 2008 Honda Civic hybrid.) The Matrix has 68,000 miles on it, which I thought was pretty good; most o...