Car Shopping, sans Enthusiasm
Apr. 10th, 2010 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebRobin and I went to a couple of car dealerships today looking at cars. I found out a couple of odd things.
The used car section of car dealerships do not have any old cars. The oldest car I saw was 2006. The second oldest car was 2007. The third oldest car was 2008, and although I did see more than one of them, I didn't see many of those either.
Also, there is not one single new Toyota Corolla S with a manual transmission for sale by any Toyota dealer in the five-state area. (Just a reminder to my New England friends--my state alone is rather large.)
Not that I'm in the market for a new car. But people are being so stupid about Toyotas right now that new Toyotas are being highly discounted, so I was tempted for a couple of minutes. But with a new car, you have to care a lot more about whether it gets wrecked so you have to have collision insurance. I'm also more likely to get control-freakish about things like ice cream in the car which is just wrong considering how yummy ice cream is.
So I now have two dealers looking for cars for me. I know I said I wanted a car from a private seller, but I really don't feel like calling up a bunch of people and begging them to hang around while I have an inspector check out their car before I buy it.
I'll have to do that at some point I suppose because I've now officially promised to hand over my car to my sister and she's leaving in a month. I'll probably end up going without a car for a while, which is fine--the main thing I really need my car for is to visit my sister and I won't be doing that anymore. It will still be handy to be able go shopping and to go to other activities when Robin's out, though I could bicycle to shopping and most activities are on bus lines. We'll see.
The used car section of car dealerships do not have any old cars. The oldest car I saw was 2006. The second oldest car was 2007. The third oldest car was 2008, and although I did see more than one of them, I didn't see many of those either.
Also, there is not one single new Toyota Corolla S with a manual transmission for sale by any Toyota dealer in the five-state area. (Just a reminder to my New England friends--my state alone is rather large.)
Not that I'm in the market for a new car. But people are being so stupid about Toyotas right now that new Toyotas are being highly discounted, so I was tempted for a couple of minutes. But with a new car, you have to care a lot more about whether it gets wrecked so you have to have collision insurance. I'm also more likely to get control-freakish about things like ice cream in the car which is just wrong considering how yummy ice cream is.
So I now have two dealers looking for cars for me. I know I said I wanted a car from a private seller, but I really don't feel like calling up a bunch of people and begging them to hang around while I have an inspector check out their car before I buy it.
I'll have to do that at some point I suppose because I've now officially promised to hand over my car to my sister and she's leaving in a month. I'll probably end up going without a car for a while, which is fine--the main thing I really need my car for is to visit my sister and I won't be doing that anymore. It will still be handy to be able go shopping and to go to other activities when Robin's out, though I could bicycle to shopping and most activities are on bus lines. We'll see.