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Last night on the way home, I was passing my local Toyota dealership and I heard a voice in my head from the Camry commercial from a year ago - "Trust us, you're going to want one."
On a whim, I decided to drive in to the dealership and see what it was all about. My Pontiac Bonneville SSEi is getting a little old, and even though I still enjoy it, I figured it would be good to trade it in for something new while it was still under 100K miles. Besides, My neighbors have just bought a new Accord and the folks across the street from me bought an Altima, and I'd rather not be the only one with a 4 year old car in my driveway.
So I started walking around the dealership and looking in to prices. Not bad, I suppose - its hard to get anything substantial these days without paying over 20 thousand. I was approached by a salesman and I asked him about rebates.
"We don't do rebates here," he chuckled. "Toyotas stand on their own value. We don't need incentives to sell them."
Well, I had purchased my Bonneville as a demo car, and it had almost 5,000 off of the MSRP when all was said and done (and that was before I started using a GM card), but I was in a Toyota dealership, after all. It's all about the experience.
"Resale value and all that, huh?" I asked.
"Yep," he responded.
"MSRP?"
"Mmm-hmm," he said, looking a little bored, and eyeing a new couple that had walked into the dealership.
I didn't want to miss my chance to follow through with my impulse buy -- a SAFE impulse buy, since it is a Toyota.
I was sold. I stroked the paint on a new metallic red Camry and nodded at him. I was ready for the paperwork.
It was new, smelled great, had a predictable but solid interior. My friends wouldn't ridicule me for buying something they'd never heard of, either. Who needs rebates? I could turn around in 3 weeks and probably sell the car for more than I bought it for. 2 years from now I'd be able to sell my Camry for 3 or 4 thousand more than a comparable GM car.
So I'm the proud owner of a new Camry now, and thinking of buying a TRD body kit or a supercharger or something. I don't know, I'm new to the whole Toyota thing.
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On a whim, I decided to drive in to the dealership and see what it was all about. My Pontiac Bonneville SSEi is getting a little old, and even though I still enjoy it, I figured it would be good to trade it in for something new while it was still under 100K miles. Besides, My neighbors have just bought a new Accord and the folks across the street from me bought an Altima, and I'd rather not be the only one with a 4 year old car in my driveway.
So I started walking around the dealership and looking in to prices. Not bad, I suppose - its hard to get anything substantial these days without paying over 20 thousand. I was approached by a salesman and I asked him about rebates.
"We don't do rebates here," he chuckled. "Toyotas stand on their own value. We don't need incentives to sell them."
Well, I had purchased my Bonneville as a demo car, and it had almost 5,000 off of the MSRP when all was said and done (and that was before I started using a GM card), but I was in a Toyota dealership, after all. It's all about the experience.
"Resale value and all that, huh?" I asked.
"Yep," he responded.
"MSRP?"
"Mmm-hmm," he said, looking a little bored, and eyeing a new couple that had walked into the dealership.
I didn't want to miss my chance to follow through with my impulse buy -- a SAFE impulse buy, since it is a Toyota.
I was sold. I stroked the paint on a new metallic red Camry and nodded at him. I was ready for the paperwork.
It was new, smelled great, had a predictable but solid interior. My friends wouldn't ridicule me for buying something they'd never heard of, either. Who needs rebates? I could turn around in 3 weeks and probably sell the car for more than I bought it for. 2 years from now I'd be able to sell my Camry for 3 or 4 thousand more than a comparable GM car.
So I'm the proud owner of a new Camry now, and thinking of buying a TRD body kit or a supercharger or something. I don't know, I'm new to the whole Toyota thing.
