This is the third, and final, update on my car. I honestly can not believe it took this long, but my shiny, new car has been sitting in my driveway for about a week now. If you remember back to my last update, I had learned of the existence of a brand new Honda model, the HR-V, that had everything I wanted in a car: all wheel drive, back up camera, heated seats, and more bells and whistles than I could count. The question I was left with was whether those extra bells and whistles were worth the additional cost. I test drove the HR-V and found that it was as zippy and responsive as the Honda Fit, which had been my first (cheaper) choice prior to learning about the HR-V's existence, and since I live in a snowy area the all wheel drive option made far too much practical sense. I bit the bullet and went ahead with the additional cost. On June 15th I put my deposit down for a dark green 2016 Honda HR-V. Go have a look at today's date to confirm why this has been such a trying process. It is now October and I only got the car a week ago. The sales person I handed my deposit to insisted it would only take three to six weeks before I was a new car owner. Something went very wonky in the three and a half months I waited for my car to arrive. When six weeks went by without hearing anything about my new car's arrival, I contacted the sales person I was working with. He told me that the dealer had been hoping to trade cars with another dealer. My dealer would give them an HR-V in any color in return for my green one. The only problem with that was the other dealers were selling their HR-V's so quickly that they didn't want to trade. My sales person hoped I would only need to wait a few more weeks. At this point I had also gone around to all the other local Honda dealerships. One was unbelievably rude to the point that I had to walk out. Another said he couldn't get me a HR-V, but offered me a deal on a Fit or a CR-V (the larger model). I didn't want a CR-V, at all, and I had already made my decision not to get a Fit, so that dealership was a bust as well. My only option ended up being to wait for the car I put a deposit on to magically arrive. July rolled into August with no word on my car. At this point I was working at my terrible summer job while driving my dad's behemoth minivan. I wanted my new car desperately so I sent my sales person another email. He told me that they had given up trying to trade with another dealer and my car was going to need to be built from scratch. I had a build date of August 18th and he hoped I would have my car within four to eight weeks after that. I figured if I had already waited two months for this car, I could wait another four to eight weeks. Four weeks went by with no word. I sent my sales guy another email asking for more information. He couldn't tell me anything. All he could say was that he really hoped my car would arrive within the month. Two weeks later, now the end of September, I was out shopping in the mall when my phone rang. It was my sales guy and he was so excited. He could see my car on the truck that had just pulled into their lot. It was the only green HR-V there and I was first in line for that car, so he knew it was mine. My car hadn't even officially been delivered to the dealer yet and he was calling me to tell me it was in. He actually called my car a unicorn or a leprechaun because he was starting to think it didn't actually exist. Of course, the dealer was closed the next day. I had to wait two days before I could go get my car. I test drove it to make sure everything worked, my sales guy showed me all the bells and whistles (and they are totally worth the extra cost), and I did the money thing. I said goodbye to my old (not quite dead yet) car and drove my brand new car home. So that is the final update on my car. I went from a mostly dead car that would cost more than it was worth to fix to a brand new, super shiny car that I love. It is so much fun to drive and totally worth the wait.
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