oilBabe was tired of driving the van since her son drives the Camry, so we pulled the trigger last night. Got the 1.9% financing AND $500 rebate, plus with the end of the year, they were looking to move a car.
We showed up at the dealer around 8:30pm and by 10:00 we were driving out in our new car.
I'll write more later. I probably wouldn't have picked it, but oilBabe liked it better than the Camry, Sonata, Mazda 6 (a close 2nd) and wouldn't even look at Ford, Dodge or GM after her prior experiences domestic.
I don't know about the CVT, but Nissan did up the warranty to 120K miles, so we'll see how it goes.
What sold her on it was the Nissan Intelligent key. No more digging through the purse to find the key. She can walk up and open the door, or the trunk with the buttons one can press on the door latch or under the trunk lid.
It was standard on the Altima S, while the others if they offered it, it was only on the higher trim levels.
It's a nice car with everything she wanted for just under $23K sticker.
That was essentially the OTD price with taxes, tags, etc, with the $500 rebate and the 1.9% financing.
We were pre-approved for 4.9%, but 1.9% is practically free money and we can keep our cash on hand. We were tempted to just write a check for the car, just because we could, but decided to keep our cash liquid.
I think it will be a wash fiscally speaking as the fuel savings each month will be eaten by the higher car insurance premium. We have 4 vehicles including a teen driver, and that means we are up to about $2300/year for insurance now. (Ouch!) We should see low 30s for MPG in the car, while the van is high teens low 20s.
I'll write more about the car later. I'm still skeptical about the CVT, but it is smooth. I'll get to drive it next week when oilBabe is out of town, so I can say more then.
I can say the Altima with the 2.5L is still pretty peppy. Seems they've tuned it for the most torque of engines in that class, so it's fun to drive, even without stepping up to the V6.
We showed up at the dealer around 8:30pm and by 10:00 we were driving out in our new car.
I'll write more later. I probably wouldn't have picked it, but oilBabe liked it better than the Camry, Sonata, Mazda 6 (a close 2nd) and wouldn't even look at Ford, Dodge or GM after her prior experiences domestic.
I don't know about the CVT, but Nissan did up the warranty to 120K miles, so we'll see how it goes.
What sold her on it was the Nissan Intelligent key. No more digging through the purse to find the key. She can walk up and open the door, or the trunk with the buttons one can press on the door latch or under the trunk lid.
It was standard on the Altima S, while the others if they offered it, it was only on the higher trim levels.
It's a nice car with everything she wanted for just under $23K sticker.
That was essentially the OTD price with taxes, tags, etc, with the $500 rebate and the 1.9% financing.
We were pre-approved for 4.9%, but 1.9% is practically free money and we can keep our cash on hand. We were tempted to just write a check for the car, just because we could, but decided to keep our cash liquid.
I think it will be a wash fiscally speaking as the fuel savings each month will be eaten by the higher car insurance premium. We have 4 vehicles including a teen driver, and that means we are up to about $2300/year for insurance now. (Ouch!) We should see low 30s for MPG in the car, while the van is high teens low 20s.
I'll write more about the car later. I'm still skeptical about the CVT, but it is smooth. I'll get to drive it next week when oilBabe is out of town, so I can say more then.
I can say the Altima with the 2.5L is still pretty peppy. Seems they've tuned it for the most torque of engines in that class, so it's fun to drive, even without stepping up to the V6.
