xb rocks

Picking up the new car today. I am so excited. Yesterday when I got home, Chris suggested that we just go and pick it up last night. But since it was brand spanking new, we decided to do all the paperwork last night and then pick it up in the morning. Then they can detail it, put a radio in, and inspect it. I can't believe that after 10 years of driving the standby escort, I am going to be getting a brand new car that no one has ever owned. Wow!!! Although the payment thing is a little scary seeing as it has been over 5 years since I had a car payment. Oh, well most people have these things.

weather

I just want to let everyone know that we had an entire weekend of nice weather. Isn't that amazing especially this summer. Although there is some nasty stuff heading towards some areas of NH.

As to the continuing saga of buying a car, I am one step closer because I cleaned and vacuumed the old car today, so it is ready. Can't wait to get the Scion xB and get rid of the scort.

The Saga of Buying a new car

So as I said before the 'Scort is getting up there in age and miles. I have also had a lot of work done in the past year and feel it is time to be looking at something new. I had made a preliminary list to work off from. That list included Honda - Fit, Civic; Nissan - Versa, Sentra; and Toyota - Corrola, Matrix and Prius(pipe dream). I also was looking under $20,000. One weekend we found the dealerships in the area and starting test driving. The first stop was Dover Honda. Not a lot of selection but they did have a standard Fit and an automatic 2007 Civic to test drive. I really enjoyed the Fit for its large inside and it was fun to drive and thought the Civic was a little sluggish did not have a very well designed interior. Next we went to Somersworth Nissan dealership. That was not an enjoyable experience. The salesman was very annoying. He did not take a breath to let us say anything the entire time we were there. He insulted every car company and he insulted the Mercedes convertible that we drove up in. I test drove the Versa but could not tell you anything about it because he talked about going endo and about his illegitimate daughter in Florida. We were on a tight schedule and did not have time to test drive the Sentra. He also held my license hostage until the very end (which means I was test driving the car without my license) and when I refused to give him my phone number he was very upset. I was up in Keene visiting my parents, so I decided to test drive the Sentra while I was there. I told the salesman about my ill experience and he was very nice and let my brother and I take the care out by ourselves. The car was not my favorite. It was basically my car, just a little nicer. It also had continuous variable transmission which is an automatic and I didn't foresee myself really getting used to that. It also sounded like it was very difficult to get a standard in either the Versa or the Sentra. So Nissan was out. Next was Toyota. We went to the Toyota dealership in Rochester. We test drove a Corrolla and again found it to be not that exciting. Mine just a little nicer. There were also no sticks on the lot and he wasn't sure if they would get some in. He mentioned a 2008 Scion xB that was a stick. I had never really thought about Scions before. I decided to test drive it and decided that I really like them. We decided to do some numbers on the xB and didn't have a good experience with that. This dealership is one that does not sell new Scions. They had just got this in as a trade. They are going to be selling them in the future but I am thinking that they didn't know what they were talking about when they were trying to sell me this car. Basically you can buy a new 2009 xB for less than what they were offering at this place for their "BEST DEAL." It also smelled like smoke. I was very discouraged by this dealer but encouraged by the fact that Irwin Zone in Laconia has brand new xB's for less. Watch out people, I may be driving around in a giant toaster soon.