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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nacho98" data-source="post: 1022410" data-attributes="member: 15363">I traded her off this morning.  With the wife needing something with an auto to get to work which will be starting soon, and having spent the last 9-10 months relying on me to drive her everywhere, I had to say goodbye to the Stang.We got her a brand new 2012 Beetle 2.5L w/sunroof today.  It's a great car so far.  Quiet, silky smooth--everything a new car should be.  In regards to my other thread about the trade, I found another exactly identical car to the one we looked at (exactly what the wife wanted) at another dealer, so we headed over there today.  I talked car price first without mentioning the trade again, and ended up getting the car for $500 under invoice price, so they were $500 ahead of the other dealer to start.  Then I mentioned the trade, knowing they had to give me at least a solid $5k for mine just to match the other dealer.  Sure enough they came back and said $5k, so I said that's just a match to the other dealer, what's the incentive to buy from you?  Figuring the other dealer probably wasn't going to give me $6k, and figuring NADA clean trade was $5k, I figured well at $5k I'm at least not getting screwed on the trade, it's at least more or less what it's worth; but I needed more to buy from here since it just matched the other dealer and I thought the first dealer was pleasant to deal with.  So I just said alright tell you what, come up to $5200 on the trade, 0% financing for 60 months, and you've got a deal right now.  He talked to the sales manager and it was a done deal within about 45 minutes.  Then it was just an issue of signing papers and giving a longing, sad goodbye look to the Mustang that did exactly what I needed it to do--be cheap reliable transportation to get me through the transition period of leaving Japan and coming over here knowing I was facing unemployment but still needing a car right off the bat to be able to find and get to work and get established.  It did exactly that, and never once worried me that I wouldn't get where I was going.  It was a good buy, and I'd do the same thing again in a heartbeat.  It was a good car for me, and I will and would miss it, but I already knew I would but more importantly I knew I'd have to move on as our needs changed.  Since I work downtown, I'll be sloughing it on the bus with the riff raff and heathens for awhile which is going to suck ass horribly, and once the wife starts working and we start bankrolling some good cash, I'll pick something else up down the road.  On the plus side since I had 0% financing and owed a small amount on my wife's school, I had them apply half my trade to the new car and cut me a check for the other half so I can pay off her school and wipe out the student loan payment, so her school is now a thing of the past, which makes us both feel good.Here are some pics:<img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7135/7525104608_1e998408d4_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7132/7525105492_d2d54f3cee_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8011/7525104952_6a3175b55e_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7247/7525105882_ff95bf2d49_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8157/7525106318_8b62dc3360_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8290/7525106704_97be05238f_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8289/7525107262_69bc9a0830_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>