twilight33 | A lifetime first!

As bizarre as it sounds from homeowners, neither my husband nor I have ever owned a new car. He even has one up on me in buying a used car, as the two cars I've been involved with were 'Surprise, you're putting in 2K toward this $8K dealer test drive Corolla!' when I was in high school and inherited the other a little over 8 years ago.

Today we put a deposit down on one that is incredibly new (ship date was the 7th, invoice date just 2 days ago), all the specs we wanted (and then some) for invoice + $500 as documented through the Costco auto program with no dealer schmooze. Our credit union loan via payroll deductions is a reasonable APR for 100% financing plus no setup fees. There also aren't prepayment penalties for once we no longer have preschool tuition to pay this fall. YAYAYAYAYAY!!

The car is somewhere out of state though, and if the dealer negotiations don't work to get it here in a reasonable amount of time they'll just order one from the factory & let us know which way it'll go in a few days. We're in no rush since this is replacing our second small commuter car, but it's nice to know that we didn't have to budge on anything we wanted.

Kieran (who was incredibly well behaved with books the 90 minutes we were there) was a little perplexed why we weren't coming home with the new car today, but seemed ok with the news that it'll be here later on.

YAY NEW CAR!! We even get to take advantage of a college grad rebate!