This one doesn’t suck though
Today I bought a new car. I have been researching a new car for a half a year and finally settled on an Acura TL. After hitting Edmunds.com and CarsDirect.com, I pretty much new the typical selling price for the car. There is a forum website of owners that helped quite a bit too. In the dead of winter, with the dealer‘s lot overflowing, and my wife’s permission, I figured now would be good time to strike. I sent a short e-mail last night saying how much I was willing to pay, and in the morning the Internet Sale Manager e-mailed said sure. A few hours later I showed up at the dealership and wrote a check. Amazingly easy.
The car is too nice for me to transfer the Sierra Club window cling from my old car. The new car passed the first grader test. My girls love it as it reminds them of their grandmother’s car. (I’m not sure that is a good thing for my ego.) I went and got a rubberized tray to go under my youngest’s car seat as I don’t want it to scratch the leather. (I dred Claire scuffing up the back of the driver’s seat when I take her to daycare next week.)
The hardest part was deciding on a color. It was a process of elimination:
White: Too Boring.
Silver: Too “Buick”y.
Black: Wife hated my last black car.
Gold: Wife’s current car is gold.
Blue: Wife’s last car was blue.
Green: My current car is green.
Grey: Perhaps
Red: YES!
And, if you read this blog a year ago, most importantly it matches my wife’s vaccuum cleaner.