Some of you may remember my thread about buying my 09 Fit. A few who read that might remember I sat out to buy an Insight b/c of the "low price" only to find out that you had to buy a top of the line EX to even get cruise control. So, instead of paying $23k for an Insight, I paid $17k for a Fit Sport Auto. Generally, I've been thrilled with the car. Gas mileage is in the 40's when I'm gentle with it. But usually drops to near the EPA highway (33) when I have to rush to work-which has been often lately.
Anywho...got an interesting email from my dealer today. Seems they are trying to clear out a bit of older stock and they had a silver Insight EX reduced to $19,917. Man, I yelled at my computer. Called the wifey and got "permission" to call the salesman and run numbers. While I waited for him to call back, I ran my own numbers on the diffference in mpg between the two and how much money I would save over 5 yrs buy driving the Insight instead of the Fit. Based on real world and EPA, the biggest savings I could see was about $4,600 over a 5 year period. Sadly...after we ran numbers and went back and forth, I couldn't make it work. Depending on APR, about the least amount of money I'd be out on the deal would have been about $5,800. I wasn't going to lose $1-2k on the deal so I said thanks but no thanks. Still, it was tempting. Interior apointment-wise, there's not much difference bewteen the Fit and the Insight. But I would have loved to have had the bluetooth, nav, and VSA. Plus...I guess...I admit I'd like to have a hybrid for the cool factor. Not the "look at me" cool factor-just the hybrid-y tech cool factor.
Anywho...got an interesting email from my dealer today. Seems they are trying to clear out a bit of older stock and they had a silver Insight EX reduced to $19,917. Man, I yelled at my computer. Called the wifey and got "permission" to call the salesman and run numbers. While I waited for him to call back, I ran my own numbers on the diffference in mpg between the two and how much money I would save over 5 yrs buy driving the Insight instead of the Fit. Based on real world and EPA, the biggest savings I could see was about $4,600 over a 5 year period. Sadly...after we ran numbers and went back and forth, I couldn't make it work. Depending on APR, about the least amount of money I'd be out on the deal would have been about $5,800. I wasn't going to lose $1-2k on the deal so I said thanks but no thanks. Still, it was tempting. Interior apointment-wise, there's not much difference bewteen the Fit and the Insight. But I would have loved to have had the bluetooth, nav, and VSA. Plus...I guess...I admit I'd like to have a hybrid for the cool factor. Not the "look at me" cool factor-just the hybrid-y tech cool factor.
