We have been pretending we've been wanting to buy a new car since we got married. So two years, now? Finally we got a kick in the ass to get the process going. All it took was his coworker telling him his wife would give him a mad deal on a Ford since it was end of the fiscal year.
Woo. Hoo.
Husband works third shift. His grand plan was to come home Friday morning from work and we'd be on our way. So we did. We head out to Toyota because we want to test drive that before we make any final decisions at Ford. We already decided it'd be one of those two that would end up in our driveway.
We show up at Toyota -- and I always end up laughing at car dealerships because those salesman are like flies on shit. They just stare at you as soon as you pull in the driveway. I always feel like a piece of meat! Anyways, a nice guy named Jason approaches us asking what we're looking for. We don't mess around and cut right to the chase. Soon enough, we're test driving. Awesome. We're hooked on the V6. Silly salesman had us drive the V6 before the 4 cylinder. Of course we love the V6. We were planning on a V6 in the first place, so he really didn't have to twist our arms.
We love the car. Husband pretends that "we don't need this, that or the other thing, but they would be nice for resale." ::chuckle::
My Husband is awesome at a lot of things. Most days, wheeling and dealing doesn't quite make it to the top five. However, he really proved himself at that round table. He literally laughed at some of the offers brought to the table. It was pretty empowering, and I know he felt that. He really got 'em going and eventually he was chatting with Toyota's General Manager. So that was awesome.
We end up loving the Toyota but have to go to Ford since he knows the guy whose wife works there. And she's training, so we wanted to give her some experience.
The first thing I kind of liked was that no one talked to us for, like, 15 minutes! Nice! We fiddle around window shopping and wait another 10 minutes for the woman we came to see. We tell her what we want to drive. She goes to get it.
She pulls up, Husband takes the reigns. A panel is falling off? And there are 65480419840 buttons up front. I'm sure they are useful, but it's a bit overwhelming. Her trainer shows us how to adjust the mirrors and the seatbelt -- because that's just soooooo high-tech -- and then we're on our way. Honestly, not a bad ride. But we still liked the Toyota better. Before we left we let her trainer think that what we really wanted was something smaller and we test drove one more vehicle before we left because Husband "was tired." Which he was. He had officially been awake for 20 hours at this point.
We go back to Toyota. We wait around for 90 minutes. By now Husband has to go back to work so I have to handle the final wheeling and dealing. I fail at that. I ended up calling him in a mild panic over the extended warranty option. And then, when we had to have Husband sign the final papers, we decide to walk to where he works. It was wet and rainy and that was a really bad idea on my part. Oops. That poor sales guy.
But we are o.b.s.e.s.s.e.d with our new Toyota :)
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