Buying a New Car in Knoxville
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:53:11 GMT
While living in my son's house, waiting for the procedure to make my bladder empty on its own again, I figured out that I would NOT be moving back into the trailer. So I sold it for cash to the RV place down the street. I looked around, at Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, BMW. I've had four Hondas, two of them sedans. I like them. Toyota still makes a Honda, with boat-like handling. Both are world class companies. I could live with the cars made by Hyundai or Kia. But the Mazda was indeed a "Zoom! Zoom!" experience. And the BMW was as much more exhilarating than that as the Mazda to the Honda.
So I arranged to buy the BMW. I was there finalizing loan plans, when the manager walked in and said, "This has never happened before. One of our employees just ran his motorcycle into your car, and he dented the bumper." "Is he OK?" I asked. "He's going to the ER, but only to make sure he's OK. He says he's OK."
I went out to look at the BMW bumper. It was obvious that the bumper was an exchangeable part, so I told him to call me when they had replaced it, and I'd come back and go through the final steps again.
The next day, I called, and said I wanted a Honda Civic, not the BMW they were fixing for me. He had a used one on the lot, and I drive that to this day.
