April 15, 2010
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Our new (to us) minivan!
We have been looking for a minivan since we found out about baby #2. We were torn between the Sienna and the Odyssey, but at the end, we didn’t really care which one we got because they were both so close in ratings (although the Sienna is slightly cheaper). We’re live 5 minutes away from a Toyota and a Honda dealership, so we went to check a few of them out. We ended up with a certified 2006 Odyssey in great condition. It only had 35K miles on it, had a clean Carfax record and service record AND there happened to be a special going on it when we went to look at it.
Tyler LOVED the minivan. I think it was the best toy he’s seen in a while. He can get out in and out of it by himself and he kept running to the front of the car to play with all the dials. We ended up being there a long time because PB had his mind set on a certain price and was trying to haggle his way down. They weren’t really budging since there was already a deal on it. I was getting bored and Tyler was getting REALLY REALLY fussy and terrible 2-ish (in his defense, it was past his dinner time and was almost his bed time). I finally shot PB the look because Tyler was getting out of hand and PB told them we were going to go home, think about it and come back tomorrow morning.
They must’ve thought we were leaving for good because they had the all the managers follow us out to our car, offering lower and lower numbers as they chased us. By the time we got to the car, they offered PB’s goal price AND threw in their VIP package (free yearly inspections FOREVER, free shuttle service to and from the inspections and a few other things). But we we really had to get Tyler home, so PB promised to come back after he dropped us off. Luckily our salesman was a dad to four kids and he must have understood, so he told us to get Tyler home first. (The floor manager was a single, young obnoxious jerk who kept saying, “forget your wife and kid…they’re fine…just finish the deal now”…..they almost lost the deal because he was so freaking annoying).
So PB went back and now we have an Odyssey! They even delivered the car to our house for us! It looks like this: (typical, ugly minivan hahahaha), but oh, the roominess is soooo nice!
Comments (6)
Congrats! and 2 thumbs up for the good deal!
we have an odyssey also and it’s so practical with kids and all the gear we carry around. congrats on the good deal and the new car!
we were thinking about switching to a van/SUV too…..
i like Odyssey =)
what do you think about the Toyota Highlander? have u looked in to that before? it can also seat 7 ppl…i’m waiting until i finish my finance for my car…so i got lots of time to think and re think =)
congrat on the new van!!
That’s great about the minivan. My sister has gone through two odyssey and they handle great, better than the Honda Pilot. I kept telling the husband that eventually we’ll need one. He says that he won’t be caught dead in one. I even said we can get the Mercedes R350 but no deal. We’ll see about that when he gets tired of shuttling 3 kids in a sedan!
nice!!! I want a minivan also, our small volvo is just not cutting it with our gimongous stroller that takes up the whole trunk. everytime we go to BJ’s we can’t buy too much because we can’t fit anything in our car!! congrats!!!
@jeyi99 -
You should totally get one! I totally know what you mean. Our stroller takes up at least half our trunk space…and that’s only with the Peg Perego. If it were the jogging stroller, forget it, nothing else would fit. Plus, now we can change diapers in the car without having to be outside the car leaning in (especially annoying in the winter).