New in the New Year
I figured I'd let the new year mature, mellow, marinate to post something more significant. Well, it's been over a month, and I don't have anything earth-shattering or ground breaking or profound. But, since this is supposed to be, at the least, a way for me to keep friends and family up-to-date, and I haven't written much since getting back from New Zealand, so here goes. I realizing I haven't written my 'review' of King Kong, haven't written my journal of the holidays back in Detroit, haven't written my New Years Resolution (lose weight, ha!).
But weighing heavily on my mind is that commute. So much so that I made the leap to get a new car - a Honda Civic hybrid. Cheaper and longer-lasting tank of gas, ability to ride the carpool lane - it wasn't too hard a decision. The process was a bit annoying. Bonnie and I went out on a Sunday, and got the super hard sell from the salesman, and his boss, and HIS boss. The whole thing took up an hour, they must have said "what can we do to get you this car TODAY?" 2 dozen times. Got a trade-in eval on my Volvo - $6500. I laughed at that, almost walked out but they kept the schmoozola on, got it up to $9g's, which was about the KBB value. So, put some distance and some thought and research into it. I was dubious of their push that the hybrids are going so fast, I needed to buy now now now. (They even had another salesman come in and say, "I need to show that car #XXX to some customers." "But, I was selling to this gentleman." ) But I checked a couple places, and they said, "No hybrids in stock." So I decided to make the move. First brand new car I've ever bought. I'll miss the Volvo but this will be better off in the longer run I think, the fact I don't have to buy premium grade petrol is outstanding.
But weighing heavily on my mind is that commute. So much so that I made the leap to get a new car - a Honda Civic hybrid. Cheaper and longer-lasting tank of gas, ability to ride the carpool lane - it wasn't too hard a decision. The process was a bit annoying. Bonnie and I went out on a Sunday, and got the super hard sell from the salesman, and his boss, and HIS boss. The whole thing took up an hour, they must have said "what can we do to get you this car TODAY?" 2 dozen times. Got a trade-in eval on my Volvo - $6500. I laughed at that, almost walked out but they kept the schmoozola on, got it up to $9g's, which was about the KBB value. So, put some distance and some thought and research into it. I was dubious of their push that the hybrids are going so fast, I needed to buy now now now. (They even had another salesman come in and say, "I need to show that car #XXX to some customers." "But, I was selling to this gentleman." ) But I checked a couple places, and they said, "No hybrids in stock." So I decided to make the move. First brand new car I've ever bought. I'll miss the Volvo but this will be better off in the longer run I think, the fact I don't have to buy premium grade petrol is outstanding.
posted by pegasusgiraffe at 9:20 PM
1 Comments:
That rules, I love Becky's Civic Hybrid, just a year behind your slightly newish 06 design. Good on you man, and god damn is it a pain the the ass dealing with car salesman... cheers, enjoy the road trips as well!
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