I did end up buying the Honda Civic. I’m still in shock, but it’s a lovely, lovely, lovely car, and I love it. Everything works so much better than it did in my old car, and I got more than 40mpg on the highway this past weekend!
Oh, and if you ever want to buy a car, here’s how you do it:
- Decide on a car while visiting out-of-state relatives (this is the hard part…. well, except for the paying-for-it part)
- Call your home-state dealer and say you want x car, should you buy it now or wait till you get home? The decision will depend on the deal you get. (Get their offer in writing via email.)
- Call the out-of-state dealer and say you want x car, should you buy it now or wait till you get home? And by the way, home-dealer-guy gave you x price.
- When the out-of-state dealer ducks home-state dealer’s price, you buy the car without ever having had to negotiate with anyone face-to-face.