liberty!

Well it's official - today I popped into the Subaru dealership around the corner from the office and purchased a new car. Basically what I got was:

2008 Subaru Liberty 2.5i
2.5L AWD Sedan
4 Speed Automatic with Sportshift
Colour - Black Pearl
...and lots of other features (I'm not in the mood for listing every one - go to the website if you really want to know)

Anyway after a test drive, I spent a while haggling to get a better deal. I generally dislike car salesmen, but I had Shelley, a 28 year old car saleswoman who was friendly and appeared to be very understanding. Original price was about $38,500, and they valued my car at $3,000 for trade in. That meant that I was to pay about $35,500 in total. Anyway, the end result was that I got an extra $250 for my car as well as about $5,500 off the car. So I need to come up with $29,750. Not bad - I walked in there not wanting to be forking out any more than $30,000.

I didn't end up going for the ex-demo, I went for the brand new option. It should be available to pick up on Friday. It's funny - I'm not really excited about it. I guess it hasn't sunk in yet. Also, I couldn't sleep last night, so maybe I'm just too tired to get excited. I'm sure I'll be excited when I do pick it up - no doubt I'll be doing a lot of driving that evening.

The freaky bit in the day came when one salesman out the back mentioned that I looked familiar, and asked if I'd been on TV before... made me wonder if it was all some kind of April Fool's Day joke.