I Have New 2006

I've been serious about a Prius for the past month. Nov 4 went to dealer. Nov 6 found out 2006 were coming soon. Decided to wait. Thought it would be mid-Jan at the earliest, and if one of my three colors came in with package #7.

This past Tuesday nite my salesmen called me. "Bob, it's here!"
"Impossible!" I reply
It was there. Went the next day at 12:30. It wasn't my first choice of color, although I now think it really was my first choice. I told Nick I wanted to wait a couple months to see if my first choice came in. I have a 99 Camry with 70K and in great shape. I'm not in a hurry.
"If I can make you a good deal would you consider it?" Nick says as I'm getting ready to leave.
Huh? I think. I didn't think you could make a deal on Prius'. Maybe it was my good luck it was the last day of the sales month! What the heck. I haven't played this game in a long time. Let's see how much I remember.

At first my salesmen said: "How does $500 lower sound", after I refused to be baited by his 'give me an offer' line.
I almost fell out of my chair. "I could do it for that"
Well of course he couldn't do it for that as I soon found out. He walked away to his sales manager, in a small room with an open door and no ceiling about 30 feet away. I hear someone say "$500!" and then a lot of laughing. A short time later Nick and his sales manager come walking back to the table.

"Bob, this is our first 2006 Prius, and it's also the first deliverd to a dealer between Sacramento and the Oregon border. We can't let it go for that but we want you in that car. Here's the full price out the door." He shows me the familiar single piece of paper with 30,638 (7.25% county for sales tax portion of fees) a space below it, then a line. "Give me a number".
"Let's make it a nice round number", I respond, "30,500".
"Done!"
$28,286.00 sticker included 186.00 for Carpet and Cargo floor mats + the ugly Rear Bumper Applique for 65. My invoice price before fees, etc - 28,159.43!
After going through finance it's been 50 minutes since I'd arrived. I'd gone from not going to buy this one to being the new owner of a 2006 Prius!!! Yahoo!!! Went back around 6:30 to pick it up.

I'e been soooo busy at work I haven't even figured out yet, or had the time to read the manual, on how to keep the navigation system from trying to direct me back to the dealer's all the time!! :lol: I can shut her up though.

 

My salesmen told me it blocks 98% of UV. I'm happy with it as is

 

Hey, I know all the tricks. I bet you could ask most people here if anyone got a deal below sticker and I doubt many would be able to say yes. I suppose I'm just trying to say from everything I've read I was fully prepared to pay full sticker price. There was no bait and switch. If you remember I mentioned I was ready to play the 'game' again. I know all the tricks. Heck the finance person, who was trying to get her commission, was telling me how she's snookered (she didn't use that word, but that's what I heard) many Prius owners into buying the emergency roadside breakdown policy. It provides for free repair and hotel stays for a night, etc., etc. Just like the polyshield protection. Only the uninformed fall for those moneymakers. The white and gray was one of my choices. I had considered a new outside color. But how often do you ever see the outside of your car, except when your not in it. It is more important for me to have the inside color I wanted.

 

Right now I just find it comical. I'm a person who 'reads' manuals. I just haven't had the time. Heck, the Nav manual is only a little over 100 pages. If I can program Autolisp for AutoCAD I don't think I'll have problems. I just think it's going to be a couple months or so, because of everything on my plate right now, before I know how to operate everything. Hey I just bought a 42" Pansonic Plasma that I can't use until Jan. Have to wait for a the new HD receiver from Dishnetwork. Make that three months or more before I know what's what! :lol:

I'll now start making MP3 CD's. I'll never have to change them I've never owned a cell phone, but am seriously considering it just because of Bluetooth. I'm still using my garage door opener. Again no time to take the few minutes to find out how to use Homelink.

What do I know? I can program radio stations. I've figured out the following steering wheel buttons - radio station change buttons, volume, engine and gas consumption info, and temp control. I entered my home address as my home location. I'm just going to try to learn one new thing each day.

I did read the NAV display is much cleaner from some topic here. I drove a 2005 and I seem to remember it not being as good as this:

 

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a Rear Bumper Applique? I don't see anything on the rear bumper in your picture.

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It's like a thin plastic covering that is on top of the rear bumper between the hatch closing and the face of the bumper that just says PRIUS PRIUS PRIUS PRIUS... What a stupid idea. I suppose it's to help prevent scratches. To me it looks uglier than any scratch would.