She who must be obeyed wins (as usual)

Two things happened yesterday that I wanted to share with you here.  One is making me really angry and I am not entirely sure I can talk about it right now.  Being 36 weeks pregnant is not a good time to voluntarily contribute to raising my blood pressure!  The other is that we FINALLY bought a new car!  Yes, after roughly 6 weeks of test driving nearly every make and model known to man (OK so I exaggerate a little) we finally settled and agreed on a car and bought one.  We pick it up tomorrow night!  Pretty excited about that.  We bought a car totally different to any we had driven, which came as quite a shock to us both.  Hubby wanted performance, I wanted European.  The car that came the closest to that was the new Mercedes C Class (Wheels Car of the Year) but at around $125K (!!!) we were finding it VERY difficult to justify, hence why we stalled for so long.  The other car we liked was the HSV GTS at around $85K, but the thought of dropping $100 of fuel into it every week was paining hubby quite significantly.  So in the previous week, Hubby had been researching the new VW Passat R36 (not yet released) so we decided to visit Volkswagen and check out a Passat to get a 'feel' for it.  Whilst there, Hubby pointed out the Golf R32.  "Honey, it's a hatch" I said.  "And you know that I will forever have to hang shit on you if you buy a hatch.."  But I liked it, I liked it a lot .. it was quite a gorgeous little car.  Anyway, we drove the Passat and I know it wasn't the R36 but it was definately lacking something.  It reminded me of the Audi A4 .. kinda like an old person's car (no disrespect of course .. hehe).  Then we took out the R32. 

The first thing of note was the sound it made.  A real grunt, a rally sound.  It was fantastic!  The model we drove also had DSG transmission complete with paddles for gear changing on the steering wheel!  We took the car into an estate and hubby opened her up.  It was, in a word, sweet!  The acceleration was awesome!  The feel of the car was fantastic!  The sound was pure magic!  All from the tiniest car we had driven!!  We took the car back to the showroom and got out to speak to the dealer.  Before we could say anything he said "you understand that because this is a sports car there is a 6 month wait for one."  SIX MONTHS?!?!  Excuse me but you've got to be fucking joking!!  Mercedes could HAND BUILD a car in less than four months!  Six months my ass!  We'll be off then ...

I was disappointed.  Most fun car we had driven and I could see us tearing up the dirt road to our new house in it (make good friends with our new neighbours ...).  But six months .. no way were we waiting six months.

Then I remembered another VW dealer about 15 minutes drive away.  "Let's check them out", I said.  "See if they have a car in stock and if it REALLY does take six months to get one."

We arrived.  We talked to the salespeople.  It was obvious immediately that they knew a helluva lot more than the last place we were at.  "Do you have R32's in stock?" we asked.  "We do." 

So after more talk on the car, a more thorough run down of the features, and more insane grinning from my hubby (who was imagining the fun he was gonna have in the car) he said to our guy .. "Can I have this one?"  .... and that is what happened ... we will be in possesion of our gorgeous deep blue, dark tinted, specced out R32 tomorrow night.  And I am driving it home. 

PS On another note, the R32 was also the cheapest car we drove!  Never before have I chosen the cheapest option.  I mean that .. never.  And it has everything we wanted on a car ... under $70K.  Ah, happy days ahead :D