After almost a year of dreaming, hunting and drooling...finally got a 5.
I had seen them around, and looked once or twice at them in passing but didn't give them too much of a look until about a year ago when I suddenly added a second 4 year old to my family when my g/f and her daughter moved in with my son and I. I rented one shortly after that for a family trip because I was able to get it at a full size rate instead of the higher minivan rate, and I was in love.
There was a couple of attempts to make deals on a couple of 2007's and a 2009 all of which fell thru. Internet hunting only proved to be frustrating as I kept seeing good deals too far away. We quickly came up with a list of wants and don't care about's as far as features and color's.
I hadn't searched for awhile and I'm not sure what led me to look that day 2 weekends ago but up popped a red 2012 GT for what seemed like a good price and it was on the island I live on (granted 3 hrs away). As per usual we didn't think we could afford a newer body style one, but I called the dealer that had it anyways and got some info on what they could do for financing etc and apparently we were wrong!
So after some wheeling an dealing by text message, I got them to drop the price another $1000 off the "sale price" to convince us to come up and look at it before month end and we drove it home!
It has 48,300 km's on it.
I had seen them around, and looked once or twice at them in passing but didn't give them too much of a look until about a year ago when I suddenly added a second 4 year old to my family when my g/f and her daughter moved in with my son and I. I rented one shortly after that for a family trip because I was able to get it at a full size rate instead of the higher minivan rate, and I was in love.
There was a couple of attempts to make deals on a couple of 2007's and a 2009 all of which fell thru. Internet hunting only proved to be frustrating as I kept seeing good deals too far away. We quickly came up with a list of wants and don't care about's as far as features and color's.
I hadn't searched for awhile and I'm not sure what led me to look that day 2 weekends ago but up popped a red 2012 GT for what seemed like a good price and it was on the island I live on (granted 3 hrs away). As per usual we didn't think we could afford a newer body style one, but I called the dealer that had it anyways and got some info on what they could do for financing etc and apparently we were wrong!
So after some wheeling an dealing by text message, I got them to drop the price another $1000 off the "sale price" to convince us to come up and look at it before month end and we drove it home!
It has 48,300 km's on it.
