No, you're not seeing double, this is actually another Ford Escape Hybrid sitting in my drive way. There is one big difference between this picture and the previous one: this Escape is all mine.

Yes, that's right, I liked the car so much I bought two of them! Ford began offering a 60 month, 0 percent financing deal just two days after I bought the first one and I decided to see if I could get that deal for my first Escape. As it turns out, Ford was able to rework the loan papers and give me both cars at the Zero percent financing for 60 months deal.

This is not what I had in mind when I first walked into the dealership a week ago. I was going to pay cash for the cars, one for my wife and one for myself. I was through with making car payments and liked it that way. But here's how the thinking went: I'm getting these cars with no interest paid; that means I can stash the money I would have used to pay for these cars in another kind of financial vehicle and make it work for me earning interest. Meanwhile, I'll have enough money in the bank to buy them outright should I find myself in a situation where I won't be able to pay for them monthly.