A new car!

After a two month wait, we finally got word that our new car is at the dealership.  Yesterday, we went to see it and do some initial paperwork.  Today, we went to the bank to wire the cash portion of our purchase.  After all the paperwork is done we can expect to be driving a new car by Thursday or Friday, at the earliest.  In any case, it will make it in time for Maita's birthday.  We've been telling Maita that the new car will arrive by her birthday this Saturday.

We're financing a majority of the purchase price at a 4% interest rate.  We decided to go for a two year loan period.  Our previous car purchases had 0% interest terms as the dealer was trying to move his inventory.  This current car model, a Passat TDI, is a very popular model so there is no such financing incentive.  We had to place an order before we even saw the car!  We did test drive a Golf TDI, which had the same transmission system.

When we visited the dealer yesterday, we needed to make some decisions on the options for the car.  Earlier, we opted for the factory model sunshade for the back window.  We opted out of the window tint as the car already had colored windows - we'll just buy some individual window shades for the passenger windows.  We'll most probably add the distributor recommended blue tooth handsfree system.  Now our next purchase should be a mobile phone with blue tooth capabilities.  Both L's and I have standard 3 year old no-frills Nokias.  I guess we'll both need to upgrade our phones!  We also asked the car salesman for a car use vacuum cleaner.  This is mainly for cleaning the food bits and other stuff that our two kids will no doubt scatter on the nice leather back seats.