Been shopping for a new vehicle.
Sales people seem disinterested in finding what you want.
I have done my research and know exactly what I want. I can find one at a dealership 160 miles away. I tell them. Crickets... They want to sell you some bloated upper trim level thing for $9k more than what I want. Because it’s on their lot.
If I give them a deposit (on a car they don’t have, for an undisclosed final price) they might get off their butt and do something. And yes, I’m old. The new car will cost more than my first house cost.
Now I’m looking for a lower mileage car like the one I’m looking to replace.
The whole thing is nuts.
“The whole thing is nuts.”
It certainly is. Just like you, we knew exactly what we wanted down to the color and package. We ended up having to fly my husband to Delaware to get it, then he drove home. The local Lexus dealers couldn’t seem to care less. We did find one in Knoxville and one in North Carolina, but they sold before we could get a deposit on them to hold it. Although car lot seem to be filling back up, there’s no where near the inventory that there used to be.
Luckily we keep our cars for close to 20 years. Won’t have to go through this for a long time, if ever. I am in my sixties now.
Last year I bought a 2018 Toyota Sequoia. It took me 8 months to find one that was the right milage and price. Spent a lot of time on line looking. I found one that had 50K miles and the dealer was asking $47K. I got them down to $45.5K. Paid cash. I am 62 and plan to make this my last vehicle. It is a Toyota truck, so I expect it to outlast me.
>> The new car will cost more than my first house cost. <<
Wow, you are right! My folks’ house cost just under the xurrent average price for a car.
I am happy: my car is 12 years old; the average passenger car is 14.
My next car will be an antique. I have an eye on a car from the 1940s down the road. Imagine: no computer stuff at all on it!