What did I do on Saturday? Let's see... I sat and sat and sat and waited... ughhh anyway we set out to see what kind of new car Angie wanted to buy. She has been looking at Eclipses and really liked them but this new Acura RSX was out and then there was Chrysler 300M that I wanted her to get. We went to a Mitsu dealer on the south side of town and got the low down, great deals on the 2001s and there was virtually no difference between them and the 2002s. Ok lets look. Took a test drive liked the car did not have the options and colors we wanted. No matter we are only looking right now anyway. Off to the Chrysler dealer 300Ms nice looking to me not sporty enough for Angie. SCRATCH! Ok on to the Acura dealer. The first Acura dealer we get to looks like a used car lot! They have 3 new Acura and 50 used something else's... drive on! Ok head north there is another Acura dealer next to a Mitsu dealer on Rankin. Pull in same thing, almost no new Acuras and tons of used P.O.S.es we get out anyway. A salesman takes us to the back and there is one RSX back there, it's an S-Type COOL! and it's black another plus! I thought the S-Type was supposed to be loaded? It looked plain on the inside, it also had perfed leather seats which Angie hates! I have to admit no matter how fast it goes and how fun it is to drive I was disappointed when I sat in it. Ok SCRATCH that one to I guess we will look for an Eclipse now. On to the Mitsu dealer next door. Tons of 2001s almost all silver! Don't get me wrong I love silver on a car but I think the Eclipses come in 2 colors silver and something else. In other words when is the last time you saw an Eclipse that was not silver... Angie wants a Black GT with Autostick and the Infinity sound system. Hey there's a black one over there ... everything she wants! Ok lets talk about it.
"I can not do 3.9 financing on anything but sticker."
"Sorry then were out of here... I am not buying a 2001 at sticker"
"wait wait wait, let me see," Long wait "I can do invoice plus 300 if you finance it yourself."
"well that works out to be $40 per month more, forget it. Look if you can't do better how about I trade in the Explorer and you can do better on that and then we will get where we can make a deal." (we were going to trade it from the beginning but I told him we weren't)
long wait again!!
"we can only do 5K on the explorer..."
"forget it give me my keys..."
"no wait what do you need"
"I need at least 6.8K to pay it off, it books for $6996 with every deduction I can give it and that is trade value from 3 different sources!"
... ok lets cut to the chase here... back and forth we went for what seemed like forever in the end they gave me $6.2K for my trade and sold me the car for invoice all at 3.9% we had to talk to the GM, you know the guy that the salesman always goes back and forth to every time you say something. I guess even he got tired of going back and forth, I always thought that would be better anyway let me talk to the man who can make decisions. I ended up about $700 away from what I wanted to pay but I did not do my calcs based on getting an Autostick, I was basing it on a manual tranny. So I think I came out alright. Other than having to spend 4 hours to get this deal done Angie is happy and we got the low rate.
Ok I use google for all my searching but this new search engine has appeared... Teoma is supposed to be very good. More relavant and faster searches... the database does not have near as much as google but they are infants still and that will catch up. give them a try.
First off wow holy crap were those some good seats I got from Big G last night. Ok we were sitting about 8 rows behing the front of the first base dugout! I'm talking softball close. You could hear the players talking on the field. My head is still spinning! THAnK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Big G!
EXTRA LINK! UPDATE!See the Pictures!
Ok I admit it I am getting totaly addicted to Sonic Slurries. I really like the Orange and the Cherry! As a matter of fact I'm off to get one in a few minutes.
Just FYI Chantal is still hanging around out there. Keep yourself aware!
I know a bunch of you are from Baytown(where I live) and some of you have a police scanner, so try this for all the Baytown area freqs you'll need!
Ok I have one these Pronto units now and I flat out love it! Now they have color... time to get a new one!
EXTRA LINK! I just found this very extensive review of the new color ProntoPro mmmmmm color....
Don't have too much time today... but I had to give everyone an update on Dade. When I got to mom's house Dade was acting like everything was fine but mom said he had acted like he was gonna throw up earlier. Well when we got to the house he did.
