Monday, August 3, 2009

Cash 4 Clunkers



What a day!! We decided to try to get in on the 'Cash 4 Clunkers' deal going on.

So, this morning Tommy & I went to Southpoint Hyundai (here in Austin,TX) and met our wonderful friendly salesman Vince. If you happen to go there, ask for Vince-he is NOT at all pushy and VERY informative (we get nothing for this referral). They offered us $4500 for our old explorer and we didnt have to go thru the 'cash 4 clunkers' program. I know that this explorer was not worth what we got for it, butI am happy we got it!

We got $4500 for my husbands OLD Explorer that I have been trying to have him get rid of for at least 5 years now-it still runs really well too. And we also got an additional $2000 off from a instant rebate. We got a 2009 Hyundai Elantra for a little over $13K!!!


Oh one more thing on that $4500 we got from Hyundai, our vehicle did NOT have insurance on it for a year because we never drove it. And we were told that it didnt matter since they were not going to do this thru the 'cash 4 clunkers'program. But they wanted to offer their customers $4500 for their trade in's...You just have to have the title of the vehicle in your name..


This will be a VERY economical car for Tommy to drive to work. And this is the
first brand new car we ever purchased. We usually buy used vehicles and we keep them forever. We are not the kind of people that need new cars, so this purchase is VERY rare for us.

Sorry I havent been able to do any updates until now, I have been dealing with this car purchase today and a close friend of mine had a family death and she needed my help with that...and its late, so it may have to wait until tomorrow afternoon. Sorry ya'll but thanks for understanding..

2 comments:

Alyssa @ Frugal Stepmom said...

You will not be disappointed with your NEW Elantra! I purchased the dealerships "test" Elantra in 2001 and am still going strong with it today. Congrats!

Rochelle said...

sweet~~ thanks for letting me know that!!