poor little Sara

Anybody have a spare 2000 Dodge Neon motor handy? 'cause I could use one. Our little Sara, who turnd three right around now, but also has 75K miles, decided to putter out and die on the highway yesterday. The lovely people at the Texaco down the street said something about coolant leakage, motor dead, $2500, and that this is a common problem with Neons that hit this many miles. Why didn't someone tell us that when we bought her..? So now we'll probably put a hold on building the new bathroom in the basement and buy a new car, or see if Tim's mom wants to give up her old car that she was thinking of giving us (which is ironic, since Tim has had to pay for his own cars since he turned 16 -- not sure why she decided to give us a car now).

So does anyone have a car to recommend to us? We want something that can go lots of miles, since we road-trip a lot, and can hold two dogs comfortably, preferably far away from us. We're thinking Subaru Forrester or VW Wagon, but who knows, really.