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03 November 2007

They just gave us a new car in exchange for our old car! We had a 2006 Honda civic on a 4 year lease. →[More:]The dealer called today and asked if we would trade our car for a 2008 at no cost. They had a client that wanted a 2 or 3 year old Civic but they have none. Knowing that we take good care of our vehicle they were willing to buy out our lease and get us into a 2 year lease, at the same monthly cost, on a 2008 and they covered all the fees.

It pays to take good care of your stuff.

post by: arse_hat at: 15:43 | 13 comments

Awesome, arse hat! What color did you get?

posted by LoriFLA 03 November | 16:17

This one.

posted by arse_hat 03 November | 16:35

Suh-weeet!

*shakes arsey's hand*

posted by elizard 03 November | 17:49

Very pretty, arse. Enjoy your new car!

posted by LoriFLA 03 November | 18:36

Nice! First time I've ever heard of this happening.

posted by redvixen 03 November | 18:52

Excellent, arsey!!! I love Hondas.

posted by chewatadistance 03 November | 19:06

Ha! You poor gullible fool. You've been had. Your new car will explode and destroy you ASAP. The warranty will cover neither the car nor reassembly of the pieces of your body.

It happened to me once. (I got better.)

Never trust the Corporate/Government Complex. This is, after all, the Matrix.

posted by shane 03 November | 19:35

Very cool.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 November | 19:36

How neat!

posted by deborah 03 November | 20:42

That's awesome, but I'm a bit confused -- did you take out a whole new lease, or they just "upgraded" your current lease at no cost? What's the dealer get out of this?

(holy crap! the S2000 is expensive as hell in Canada!)

posted by spiderskull 03 November | 21:35

Whole new lease. No idea what the dealer got from it but I have been around sales long enough to think they are taking a bit of a loss in order to do a favour for someone important.

posted by arse_hat 03 November | 23:26

Amazing!

posted by brujita 04 November | 10:50

Very nice! I love Civics. I think if I ever decide to reenter the driving world that'll be the top of my list.
I was a die-hard Toyota fan, but they just don't have anything nice in the compact range like a Civic these days.
And you know they're good cars, just based on how many ancient ones you see tooling around (even here in Buffalo, where the salt tends to eat through cars pretty quick), and how many people upgrade their older Civic to a new Civic.

posted by kellydamnit 04 November | 11:35

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