Sunday, March 25, 2012

the burb

This was yesterday's purchase, a 2005 Chevy Suburban.  


It can seat 9 people and has 80,000 miles.  We like it!  The purchase was pretty easy.  We saw found it on Auto Trader and went to look at it.  A couple hours later, it was ours.  We bought it from a Mercedes Benz dealer.  Wow.  What a place!  The boys loved it - fancy cars everywhere and cookies for the taking!  The boys weren't great.  Everyone saw us tromp in and then heard and saw us as we tried to make our purchase. There wasn't much haggling.  We offered about $1500 less than their internet special.  They came back with about $900 less than their asking price.  We took it, conditional upon Alex getting to test drive a Maserati.  These cars, when bought brand new, can be about $150,000.  It's $4000 just to change the oil on these cars.  Anyway, we didn't buy a Maserati.  But we do have a new "burb".  Now we need to sell our 1995 Chevy Van.  

4 comments:

Jessica McKay said...

Wow! Moving up in the world! Your "new" car is 4 years newer than our "new" car. We are thinking it finally time to replace our white prizm (yep, still driving that baby). You may inspire us (as you always do).
I love following you on the blog. I should be working on my own blog and not posting on yours...

WhiteEyebrows said...

You found on with a bench seat in the front? That's pretty rare... Congrats! Now you can have 3 more kids!

Tyson and Carrie said...

Yay! looks nice!

Jeannie said...

Great find! Congratulations. We'll be buying expensive gas together now!