Mark tells of his saga.  Quite the story. (BC)

Am I A Masochist? Another Try At Buying A GM Vehicle.

Unexpectedly, my wife and I are back in the market for another new car and we are trying again to buy a GM vehicle. Unfortunately, just like last month we can’t seem to pull it off. We want to buy a Cadillac CTS but we can’t get a dealer to honor their advertised price. Sometimes the car that is advertised doesn’t exist and sometimes it is the fine print in the GM promotional pricing that trips us up. After visiting a few dealers we got frustrated and e-mailed GM. From their response, we are convinced that GM is run by morons who don’t have a clue how to sell cars.

According to Dictionary.com the definition of a masochist is someone who derives pleasure from being humiliated or mistreated, either by another or by oneself and someone who has a willingness or tendency to subject oneself to unpleasant or trying experiences. My wife, Christy, and I must be masochists because we are still trying to be loyal to GM.

The reason that we need a new car is because my car, a 2003 Cadillac De Ville, is in trouble. The car has about 65,000 miles on it but recently had some mechanical problems including a broken motor mount that caused the engine and transmission to drop out of the vehicle. Fortunately, the drive train didn’t fall out of the bottom of the car while we were moving but even so it seems like a good time to trade it in.

My wife saw opportunity when the bottom fell out of the De Ville. She immediately demanded that we get a new car and used the usual guilt trip of “we drive our kids in the car…what if the kids were in it when the engine fell out”. You see, she hates the De Ville and says that people make fun of me when I drive it. Christy says the De Ville is an “old man’s car” and I am not in the De Ville target demographic. After all, I am not in my 80s yet, I don’t need to travel with an oxygen bottle (for shortness of breath) and I have a strong pulse. My kids hate to ride in the De Ville and their friends ask them if I am their “Grandpa” whenever they see me drop them off out.

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