Jay's Jetta has been recalled, remodeled, and fixed and re-fixed over and over and over (yup, three trips to the specialty repair shop) the past few years (and especially the past few months). We had spent more to fix it up than it was worth and our patience was waning... Jay wasn't sure what he wanted as a replacement vehicle, so even once we decided to trade in the Jetta (back in December), it still took us over 6 months to figure out what to trade it out for...
After test driving multiple SUVs and trucks (he definitely needed to go bigger than a sedan) and not liking any of them the way he thought he would, he turned his priority to safety, and that's when he landed on Subaru. One evening after work, we decided to head to Jackson to test drive one (because there is no Subaru dealership in Vicksburg, and the dealerships we do have don't often have any used Subarus either, and we wanted to buy used). That meant we either had to go to the dealership or order one to be delivered to someplace like CarMax (and since most used Subarus come from the far west coast or east coast, delivery fees are not cheap). The plan was to test drive the 3 different Outback models and then go home to think things over, but with the 2020 models arriving next week, the 2019 closeout sales were amazing (with the 0.9% financing deal as a clincher - our bank, nor our insurance, could do better than 3.9%!) and we couldn't walk away from a new vehicle priced lower than most of the used vehicles on the lot (and most of the used vehicles we'd found online)!
The kids were SO PATIENT and well behaved. We were there for 4.5 hours. At one point I looked up from the negotiation desk to see Cora peeking over the kid area's wall with a question:
They also highly enjoyed the plethora of free snacks and having the TV to themselves as we waited our turn in line for financing paperwork (perhaps the longest wait, because the couple in front of us apparently had a hissy fit when things didn't go their way and deals had to be renegotiated).
Our turn went quickly (thank goodness, because they were already past normal closing time and we hadn't had dinner yet), and we ended up saving even more money because the quote they'd given us had the decimal point in the wrong place for that 0.9% financing (they'd given us the quote with 0.09% - oops), so the financial guy just kept knocking hundreds off the sticker price until our monthly payment hit below what we'd been quoted. Their customer service definitely made believers out of us, even before we became familiar with the inner workings of this amazing vehicle!
Congratulations Jay! We all love your new Gator-blue Outback!
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