Nope...no baby for us, but we got a new car! Well, new to us. Josh and I have been considering buying a second car for quite a while. Our work schedules are getting less flexible and it's just getting harder and harder to share a car. We've done lots of research and talked to friends. We have known for quite a while that we wanted to buy an Explorer next, but we were going to test drive the competitors just in case. We needed to go to the Honda dealership to get the Civic serviced one weekend in December. We were going to drive the Pilot while we were there anyway. We actually weren't able to get an appointment, so we decided to just go drive Explorers instead. I was fine with that. I don't care for the way the Pilots look, I just felt like I should give them a chance.
I've been keeping an eye on Explorers for months. I was hoping to buy a new one and Josh wanted to buy a used one. I didn't mind buying a used one, but I was having a very difficult time finding used ones that had everything we wanted. I checked our company's discount website not really expecting to find anything and I found a 2011 Explorer that had leather seats (a must for both of us) and a tow package (a strong preference for Josh). That was great, but the price was awesome! We decided to go ahead and test drive it. We thought we would go drive it, try to talk them down a little more, then hopefully buy it later in the week if we liked it. We didn't expect them to come down much at all based on our last car buying experience. We drove it and we loved it! I didn't look at all the features when I saw it online, but it turned out it had EVERYTHING on our wishlist, not just the must haves. It was in great shape. We drove it and we loved it!
I was sold, but Josh was determined to get a them to come down another $1,500 on the price. At first, they just came down $1,000. Josh told them no. The salesman said that was the best they could do on that day and asked if there was anything else they could do to change our minds. I said they could throw in the extended warranty. They came back and said they could come down the $1,500. Woohoo!
We got it at the perfect time too! It's nice having a 4 wheel drive vehicle in the snow!
So, here it is!
We've had it for a month now and we love it!
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