re: I hate the car buying process.

Tried and True Method of purchasing a car.....

1) Find the exact car you want, test drive it, feel free to get excited, and go home.
2) Go back at 7:00pm Friday evening (towards the end of the month) and test drive the car again.
3) 7:50pm tell the sales man you are interested in the vehicle and ask him to please start the conversation with his financial person (at least one of the three (salesman, manager,or financials) will have kids).
4) By 8:25 someone will be inspecting your vehicle for trade in purposes
5) 8:45 begin talking trade in value. BE STUBBORN elongate the conversation.
6) 9:15 start talking purchase price
7)As it nears 10pm they'll give you what you want just to get you the f*ck out of their office so they can go home. But no matter what; they will never ask you to leave and come back because they want the deal done for end of month quota.

*raining outside usually helps too because they know you might be the only sale for the day. because no one car shops in the rain....

-Traded a '93 GMC pickup 4x4 with 160K mile in '07 for $3,700 and purchased a 4door Jeep Wrangler with 18K for $20K ---on Christmas Eve....nice

-Traded a '05 Jetta and purchased a used '10 Toyota Camera this year; the rainy night before Easter