Well, my husband’s old Isuzu Rodeo finally gave up the ghost, which gives us a grea excuse to get a new car. Since it was his car that died on us, it’ll be his car that we’ll replace. Tough luck on me, but I’m attached to my junker so it’s not so bad. The kind of car that he is looking for is a truck. What kind of truck? A nice truck. So he says. He chatters. Anyway, I figured I would look around online for deals and I came across the website for Gillman Mitsubishi Houston. It’s really close to where we live, and would you guess it? They have a truck on special that my husband loved the second he saw it.

The shape and size of it almost makes me forgive that terrible color. It’s a Mitsubishi Raider LS Ex-Cab 2007 and Gillman Mitsubishi Houston is selling it for a dirt cheap $15,875. You know what the original manufacturer suggested retail price (MSRP) was before Gillman Mitsubishi Houston got a hold of it? Over $23k. That’s eight thousand dollars in savings right there.

Of course, the last time I got a new car I thought I was saving a lot of money as well, and they ended up hooking me on the interest and I paid twice as much as the MSRP over six years. That was because I had bad credit, and I have better credit now, but I still wanted to make sure that if we go ahead with this the people at Gillman Mitsubishi Houston will not play the same tricks.

I called the number posted on the Gillman Mitsubishi Houston website and asked them if, should I buy the car for the amount posted, I would end up way more than that. He was very nice and helpful and explained the process to me, telling that first of all it depended on my credit score, and beyond that it would depend on how long I had to pay the loan off and whether or not I made a big down payment. A good down payment, he says, would be around 20%. Twenty percent of fifteen thousand is about $1500. I don’t have that, so I asked him if they would take my husband’s vehicle as a trade in even though it was broken down. He said they could probably give me $2000 for it in trade in. Wow! This after CarMax told us a couple of weeks ago while it was still barely holding on that they would only give us $900 for it.

Anyway, I’m going to keep researching this truck but we’re both pretty sure right now that we’re going to head over to Gillman Mitsubishi Houston this weekend or the next.