USAA Auto Buying Service

[friar1610]

It seems like there was a thread here not too long ago on this subject, but I can't find it now. Just want to report that I bought a new (2011) car yesterday after several months of looking. I used USAA's Auto Buying Service to get prices and did indeed talk to a couple of the dealers that turned up in response to my on-line request for prices. However, they were generally some distance away. I found a much closer dealer which, although not a formal member of the USAA network, met the price. I am pleased with the car and satisfied with what I had to pay for it.

BTW, I did consider a few late-model, low mileage used cars but found the price differences made a new car a better choice for me.

 

[REWahoo]

It seems like there was a thread here not too long ago on this subject, but I can't find it now.

It was in this thread: http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/0-00-loan-interest-rate-57630.html#post1104696

Happy it worked out for you. What did you buy?

 

[friar1610]

It was in this thread: http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f28/0-00-loan-interest-rate-57630.html#post1104696

Happy it worked out for you. What did you buy?

A Buick Regal CXL.

Buick has been trying to jazz up their cars and have apparently been successful in appealing to a younger demographic the last year or two. I'm afraid, however, that at my age I don't help them at all in lowering their customers' average age.

 

[REWahoo]

Buick has come a long way in the past couple of years.

You can always claim you purchased below your age group because you're suffering from late onset middle age crisis...

 

[Nords]

You can always claim you purchased below your age group because you're suffering from late onset middle age crisis...

It's also a side effect of early onset middle age crisis...

 

[friar1610]

It's also a side effect of early onset middle age crisis...

Unfortunately, any middle age crisis was years ago for me.

I was half expecting that the Buick dealer would want me to show an ID (my Medicare card) just to get in the showroom.