I have finally... bought... a ... car....

Can you believe that? After 7 years of saving up ... I finally got ... my very own .. car... You have any idea how big this is for me??? Man... It has yet to really strike me as reality... well, I don't have the car yet... I have to go pick it up on Monday, but I've signed all the papers and stuff... gonna get insurance now...

So I got to the dealer in Wexford with Sam and Pam, and after like 30 minutes of negotiating I got it on invoice price... I'm sure they still made lots of money off other secret incentives they have or what not.. but as far as I'm concerned, getting a brand new incoming vehicle right on invoice is good enough... I wasn't gonna sit there for another hour or something negotiating ... I have better ways to spend my time.

While I was negotiating, I made the mistake of slipping out my weakness by saying I would buy the car on invoice... which was a bad mistake since I should have first gone under... oh well... by the time I had realized that I had made the mistake it was too late. The guy had basically frozen the price... so it was game over... I actually tried to go under after that... but obviously it wouldn't work. So I walked out... pu heh heh heh... thinking that I would just go get the black one in Ohio... then while we're driving out the dealer Sam, Pam and I were just talking over the deal and I realized that I really really wanted the silver one... and driving to Ohio to get the black one wasn't really worth the hassle... Simply put, I wanted the silver one BAD... so I went back and signed the deal. kee hee... But, the invoice price they showed me did not match the invoice price listed on Edmunds... It did, however, match the invoice price listed on Carsdirect.com and AutoByTel.com. He had 3 mysterious items in the invoice: advertising fee, floor plan interest reserve, and port prep fee which amounted to a total of $230. If that is subtracted out, it matches the Edmunds invoice list. Some sources tell me that the advertising fee is legit.. so I'll give them the $125 that was on the invoice as a legitimate additional charge, but I personally think the other 2 items may just be balony... and if I didn't make the mistake of showing my weakness I would have probably been able to bargain another $130... but oh well... At least it was ~$200 below the True Market Value put out by Edmunds... This is the first time for me... I'll nail the deal next time.

Now I gotta shop for wheels and tires.... Awwwwwwww, Yeah!!! Let the modifications (only non-ricer modifications :P) begin!!!!