New Car Fever

With Labor Day fast approaching,  the television commercials were full of  car dealership ads.  "Labor Day sale!" , "72 Hour Sale", "zero percent interest", and on and on they went.

If you checked the online inventories, there was a lilies number of 2015 models available.  Good luck finding the exact model and color that you are looking for.  And 2016's, for the most part they were "in transit" up until Saturday.

The Chevy Traverse has a bunch of miles on it and the repair trips are becoming.more frequent. The  the spousal unit filled out some forms online for an extra discount.   They of course wanted your phone number and email address before providing you any information.  Soon as you hit "send" the emails and phone calls begin.

"Come on in tomorrow".  But your online inventory doesn't show anything that  I'm interested in.  "Just come on in.  I promise you will not be disappointed!" They say!

Used to be you could by an "American made" car or a foreign car.  Now a days, card have parts in them that are made all over the world.  Foreign manufacturers now have assembly plants all over the United States.

Funny thing happened on our way to find a 2015 Chevy Traverse at one of the Chevy lots.  We never made it!  We stopped at the Jackson Acura dealer, at the recommendation of our oldest son's girly friend.

Acura is the luxury brand of Honda, like Lexus is to Toyota.  The Jackson Acura location is the only Acura dealer in the State of Mississippi.  Gee, that's  comforting!  But never fear, you can go to any Honda  dealership in an emergency.

The sales lot was really buzzing with activity.  All the sales people were busy with customers.   At the end of the day, I asked our salesman, "so, how many cars have you sold today?"  His answer, 1.5, and ours was the half, being split with another sales guy.  Ok.  It's one of the busiest sales day of the year and the dude has closed the deal on 1.5 cars.  I don't see these guys getting rich, with Friday, Saturday, and.Holidays being the biggest days for sales.  Commissions get chopped up, with several layers taking a cut. Guess that's why dealers are always in the market for more sales people.

Found the right model, right color, and all the right options.   No spare tire, wth???  Twelve gallon tank, and they recommend burning premium grade.  Starting to sound like a thoroughbred race horse to me!

Dang thing can self steer itself and can auto adjust to keep you within the lane. There is a warning light for cars in your blind spot. This sucker has a dash that is lit up like an airplane cockpit.  Naturally the latest technology items only come on the 2016 models.  I gotta wonder how the buyers of the 2015 models got along without all these new bells and whistles!

Well, papers got signed and we came home with new baby.  Already ordered a few accessories for it off of Amazon.com.  I'm  guessing those Chevy folks figured out that the Spousal Unit ain't coming their way, since the phone calls dried up, and the emails stopped coming.

Car is now insured, has a tag, and the salesman gave us two Key chain fobs, one Ole Miss and one MSU.  Mighty nice of him, considering our house will be paid off well before this car (only 15 more payments on Cliffview! )

If this blog post puts you in the new car fever mode, it's your own damn fault!  After all you read the name of the post before you got this far!

Salesmen are fun.  It's those evil F&I guys you.gotta worry about.  Happy hunting!