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Pastimes : Help - buying a car -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marty009 who wrote (111)	1/16/2002 1:38:13 PM
From: Bicycle	Respond to of 132

I stumbled into this by accident... I was looking for a Camry, and was in town visiting my dentist. Across the road from the dentist was a Lexus dealer, and next door was a Toyota dealer. (No big surprise, it was really one dealership.) Anyway, I went through the wrong door and found myself in the Lexus showroom. The interaction with the Lexus salespeople was nothing like the usual torture I experience when car shopping. These guys behaved as if I had a brain and also as if my time had some value. When they realized I was after a Camry, they said that wasn't a problem at all, and they would be just as pleased to sell a Camry as a Lexus. I've passed this trick onto a friend who then visited a Lexus dealer and bought a Corolla. Her experience was similar to mine. Bye4Now, FD.

To: marty009 who wrote (111)	1/16/2002 2:52:37 PM
From: Jon Khymn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132

What I got at the internet quote , carsdirect.com, WAS the price. (No negotiation of price) Follow up phone call and e mail was just to confirm the price and set an appointment to pick up the car. I added ABS and side air bags so the price went up a bit. Didn't want alloy wheel but I had no choice. That added few hundred buck also. This is what I would do. 1. Go to a local dealer to test drive the car that you want. You should KNOW exactly what you want. 2.Get a quote from carsdirect.com and call few dealers and see if they can beat that price. (Of course, give the local car dealer the qoute and see if they can beat the price, if they can give you the same price then go with the local dealer who spend time to show you the car) Also get a loan preapproved from Bankone or Peoplefisrt. (It only took few minutes) If you are buying some unpopular models, you could get low interest rate through dealer.