Cadd Buys a New Toy

Well the sun has finally come up enough to take the first photo of my new Toy-auto, just purchased yesterday afternoon. This is the 2009 Toyota Tacoma, and it's more or less fully loaded except it is not 4WD and does not have satellite radio.



I haggled just a little and got $1500 knocked off the sticker (I'd asked them to knock of $4000 ;) ) I put 1/3 down in cash so I'd have equity, and I financed it for only 2.9% through Toyota.

DANG! I remember paying over 21% to finance my first car (32 years ago.)

I was actually going to buy a Sequoia, because the discounts are HUGE right now (Like $10,000 off the sticker to buy an '08 Sequoia) but the truth is that I wanted something Judy could drive too if she had to, and at 5 ft. nuthin' she could barely see out the windows of a Sequoia. To her, parking the Tacoma will seem like parking the Queen Mary, and a Sequoia would simply be impossible.

Gas mileage sucks at 20 MPG on the highway (My 3.8 liter Bonneville gets 30) but I'm still going to be commuting on the bike, so except for a little joyriding and irregular trips to home Depot, it's probably going to get driven when it rains, which is about the minimum required to keep it from rusting up.