The loan check for my car arrived in the mail yesterday, so we set out to buy a new car. We went to Laurel Scion (which is at Laurel Toyota), grabbed a salesmen and quickly agreed on a price. The price on the Scions are not negotiable, so that part was easy. And, they gave us exactly what we wanted for our trade-in, so that didn’t present a problem either. However, we were at the dealership for 3 1/2 hours! This leads me to believe that car salesmen are sadists–since they were not able to torture us with a price, they tortured us by making us waste our entire afternoon at the dealership.
I don’t know what took so freaking long. I know it was a while until they inspected my RAV4. And then it was another long while until they cleaned the car, and then another 30 minutes were spent gassing up the vehicle. At this point, they realized that the car didn’t have a stereo in it, so there goes another 30 minutes. I guess it all adds up. Brian and Jacob were getting antsy, but I guess that’s because they weren’t getting anything whereas I was getting new wheels.
The salesman must’ve realized that we were getting pissed by this point because he had them put in a 6-cd changer instead of the single cd player that they were supposed to install. Nice. I guess this is why this was my 3rd vehicle purchase in a row from Laurel.
Anyway, the car is great–it’s loaded with every feature you could possibly want except 4 wheel drive and leather seats. Of course, there aren’t any sports coupes with 4 wheel drive, but unfortunately leather seats are not an option for this car, so I guess I’ll be stuck with dog hair all over the seats yet again.
Here is a good picture of the car. And here is a picture of Jacob demonstrating the proper usage of a sunroof.
This car certainly isn’t practical for family use, but at least I got my mid-life crisis over with early.