New Ride

Since G's car is almost 13 years old we spent Sunday test driving new cars. We'd narrowed it down to four models: Nissan Altima, VW Jetta or Passat, and Acura TSX.

Now, of the dealers the Nissan guy was by and far the best sales guy. Knew the most about his car, was friendly, and actually respected our time.

The VW guy was REALLY nice, but didn't seem to know the car as well. I think he just needed polish.

The Acura salesman was a COMPLETE tool. Didn't even introduce himself, didn't acknowledge that "your wife" was even in the room, and when we were test driving didn't say one WORD to orient us to the car or sell the car to us. We were in and out of the dealership in less than 20 minutes. Maybe he took one look at us and thought we couldn't afford the car, who knows. Regardless that's not his call to make.

The unfortunate part, we liked the TSX the best. After a LOT of research on the internet we're looking at purchasing our car through an online broker. You can get the same dealer rebates without paying dealer commission so you actually pay dealer invoice or less than dealer invoice. This keeps a-hole Acura dealer/sales guy from making any money off of us.

Now comes the hard part, fighting over what color to get. I like royal blue metallic, G likes red. We put those in as first and second choices.. we'll see what comes up.