Last year we went through the process of looking at cars, and I wrote about the process… But I misplaced it on my desktop until about 6 months after the fact. So it’s the same info with the ability to utilize that ever-so-valuable hindsight.
If you know me, you probably know that I love cars. I learned it from watching my dad (say it like the commercial), and I’ve got a lot of experience in shopping, buying, maintaining, and lusting after cars of all kinds.
When Vic and I started dating, she was definitely not a car person. Skip a long segue just to know that she’s now more of a car person than most.
Last fall, she was in the market to replace her aging VW Beetle with a new or newer car. She wanted something “more fun” since in her mind, our next car will be something more apt to repel cereal and crayons while safely seating miniature humans in special chairs.
How did we go about it you may ask?
- Looked at dealerships.
- Gathered brochures and pricing.
- Test drives.
- Decision.
There is a very healthy dose of online research at the beginning and in-between all the phases of the process. There were some cars / dealerships that surprised us in good and bad ways. In the end, we chose a car that wasn’t even on our radar.
I’ll bust this thing into separate posts, partially because it lets me have new posts for a number of days, but I could write at length about any one step of this process – and I don’t want this to be thousands of words in one or two posts…
Why post something that I began months ago and forgot to post? Mostly because my lease is up in a few months, and I’ll be going through the decision process of this again.