The Saga of the Change of Cars
As my ultimately post might have suggested, I bought a new car this week. A NEW new car. Some of you inclination recall that I have said on multiple occasions that I would not till hell freezes over buy a brand new car again. They're too up-market, they depreciate the second you pressure them off the lot, blah blah blah, etc. Nonetheless, I now hold this 2008 Hyundai Accent parked facing the church.
I was quite loathe to allow up my old car, a 2000 Chevy Cavalier, regard for its many issues. It had nearly 180,000 miles on it, and those were my 180,000 miles. I bought it in 1999 as a graduation our times to myself, when it had eleven miles on it, six of them from my check-up drive. It has been a reliable car for nine years, but it's been current rapidly downhill for the last six months of so. I reluctantly started searching for utilized cars, but found nothing in a reasonable fee range that was as comfortable, fun, or fuel effective as my car. It seems that everyone is currently looking for toughened, small, fuel efficient cars, and that being so the prices have been jacked up into ridiculousness. The financing terms they were sacrifice were pretty ludicrous as opulently. Maybe it's just me, but buying a car on ascription card-like interest didn't give every indication like such a hot idea. After a variety of trips to car lots that Byzantine me sitting at a desk and asking, "Are you kidding me?" I gave up and evident to try putting some money into the old car rather than. Good idea, right?
Yeah...no. Two mechanics intelligent me that I'd have to drop at least $2,000 for my car to consistent be safe to drive. Back to decent one.
Through a series of miscommunications, I ended up at a dealership to which I did not design to go - a dealership selling only new cars. Hrm. Ah, what the heck, I'll try out drive a few and see what I like. A few spins all about the block and one really remarkable parcel out later, and I left the lot with my stigmatize...