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Old 04-14-2006, 01:24 PM
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Default Re: Best time to buy?

I think now, too, but I'm biased -- I bought mine now (well, March 6, 2006). I live in San Antonio, Texas -- not exactly HYBRID TOWN, USA -- and there were actually several dealerships with FEH on the lot. Most didn't have NAV and the leather seats (my two requirements, in addition to FWD rather than AWD), but just up the road in Austin there were literally a dozen or more at each major dealership.

Price with X-Plan (thru husband's/my former employer) was much better than we'd steeled ourselves for and we got a fully loaded model for less than that same mental price we'd choked down as "We really want it, so if it comes to that, we're willing and able to pay X.)

The salesman and sales mgr. didn't really know a thing about the FEH -- or whatever they did "know" they managed to reliably get wrong, like max. speed in EV mode and towing capacity -- but wouldn't you know it. The week after we took ownership of our FEH, they suddenly had another fully loaded one in the sales showroom (where ours had been) ready to go.

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- Shannon (Geeky, Wild Texan)


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