Beep beep!
In the circuitous fashion of our life together, we have secured not the first car we put a deposit on, nor the second, but instead the first car we test drove and were initially interested in - the Toyota Matrix.
After the Versa salesperson told us he could not expect to get any Versas until mid-November, we shifted gears and went back to looking at the Scion xA. We ran into the same problem as we did with the Versa (not a lot of cars on the lot, usually in white only) but Jen found a local dealer last week who promised us that they were expecting a 2007 Salsa Red xA last Saturday. And then Saturday became "Monday at the latest" and then "Monday or Tuesday" and well, here it is Wednesday evening and there is no Salsa Red Scion xA at the dealership. We were starting to get a little anxious.
The day after we put the deposit on the Scion, I received a phone call from someone at Boch Toyota (one of the places I'd called to locate an xA) who saw that I had inquired about the Matrix and that they found an additional car (not just the one in white). I told him that we had just put a deposit on another car elsewhere.
Tonight we decided we would just drive out to Bach Toyota and see if they had any cars we could buy today, either a spiffy xA or a significantly discounted Matrix (they're a big dealer and usually charge less). They did not have a single xA on the lot (though they had a bunch of xBs and tCs) and most of the Matrices (that's what it is, right? not Matrixes) were 5-speed, sold, or pre-owned. They had one automatic 2007 Matrix but it was /expensive/ - it had all kinds of extras like cruise control, the sports package, 6 CD changer, yadda yadda. We said we couldn't buy that car because it was too much money.
Some sales closer person came over and told us he could get us the car for $2K less because he wanted it off the lot, so we agreed. Then our salesperson came back and offered us the car at only $1K less and said that there was "no way his manager would approve the $2K" and we tapped the paper with the other dude's price on it and said we would buy the car for this or we would buy our Scion. So we got our car around dealer cost, which is pretty sweet.
It's still a little out of our price range, and the payments are about $30-$40 more than we would have paid on the xA, but we got a better quality car with more storage space and it has so many keen extras that I don't know what to do with. I snicker and giggle every time I think about driving a car with a "sports package." (We won't even talk about the leather-wrapped steering wheel - gross - I need a cover.) I still miss my 1998 Nissan Sentra base base base model.
Beep beep! We pick it up tomorrow night, and tomorrow morning I get to sell our first born to the insurance company. I hope the car doesn't get trashed in Dorchester!
(Also, the car fiasco made me 1.25 hours late for my freaking shot. How annoying.)
After the Versa salesperson told us he could not expect to get any Versas until mid-November, we shifted gears and went back to looking at the Scion xA. We ran into the same problem as we did with the Versa (not a lot of cars on the lot, usually in white only) but Jen found a local dealer last week who promised us that they were expecting a 2007 Salsa Red xA last Saturday. And then Saturday became "Monday at the latest" and then "Monday or Tuesday" and well, here it is Wednesday evening and there is no Salsa Red Scion xA at the dealership. We were starting to get a little anxious.
The day after we put the deposit on the Scion, I received a phone call from someone at Boch Toyota (one of the places I'd called to locate an xA) who saw that I had inquired about the Matrix and that they found an additional car (not just the one in white). I told him that we had just put a deposit on another car elsewhere.
Tonight we decided we would just drive out to Bach Toyota and see if they had any cars we could buy today, either a spiffy xA or a significantly discounted Matrix (they're a big dealer and usually charge less). They did not have a single xA on the lot (though they had a bunch of xBs and tCs) and most of the Matrices (that's what it is, right? not Matrixes) were 5-speed, sold, or pre-owned. They had one automatic 2007 Matrix but it was /expensive/ - it had all kinds of extras like cruise control, the sports package, 6 CD changer, yadda yadda. We said we couldn't buy that car because it was too much money.
Some sales closer person came over and told us he could get us the car for $2K less because he wanted it off the lot, so we agreed. Then our salesperson came back and offered us the car at only $1K less and said that there was "no way his manager would approve the $2K" and we tapped the paper with the other dude's price on it and said we would buy the car for this or we would buy our Scion. So we got our car around dealer cost, which is pretty sweet.
It's still a little out of our price range, and the payments are about $30-$40 more than we would have paid on the xA, but we got a better quality car with more storage space and it has so many keen extras that I don't know what to do with. I snicker and giggle every time I think about driving a car with a "sports package." (We won't even talk about the leather-wrapped steering wheel - gross - I need a cover.) I still miss my 1998 Nissan Sentra base base base model.
Beep beep! We pick it up tomorrow night, and tomorrow morning I get to sell our first born to the insurance company. I hope the car doesn't get trashed in Dorchester!
(Also, the car fiasco made me 1.25 hours late for my freaking shot. How annoying.)