Car Shopping

My wife has been looking at a new vehicle recently and I have to say I have been disappointed in what we have seen. I won’t buy new as I hate the depreciation the first couple years. She at first was interested in a Buick Rainer A really nice SUV but a little bigger then what she had in mind and it has no third seat, it is not offered as an option it did have an excellent ride and was very quiet. We have 4 grandchildren in town and she hoped to have room for them all. Next was the Buick Rendezvous, it has a third seat but neither the rear nor third seat should be called seats as they are so small and tight, and it rode like a truck. We also drove a Lexus and a Mercedes and we were very disappointed in them both. Nothing I could put my finger on I just was not impressed with them for the money they wanted for them. She bought a Pontiac Bonneville 2005 with 35K and every option available it is very similar in ride to the Rivera she is dumping. They are both excellent road cars with great gas mileage. This will be our 3rd Bonneville. I won’t drive it that much but I look forward to the heated seats this winter. I don’t know which my grandfather would hit the roof higher over heated seats or buying bottled water. The automotive sales game has changed a lot since I was last involved with it. No more high pressure in fact one salesman never even gave us a card just told us to ask for grandpa. Most just gave us the keys and said come back whenever. One had so little gas we didn’t have much of an option. Most cars we looked at we in very good shape and well prepared for sale there are a ton of vehicles out there with over a 100K.