My Wife and I have been teasing each other about buying a Smart ForTwo for a few years now. We love them, and often point them out to each other. My first urge to buy a Smart was in around 2002, but some how it's taken this long!
We test drove a petrol version about 6 years ago, and it was a major disappointment, not so much because of the car itself, but because we each had to go out separately, accompanied by the salesman. We didn’t really get chance to talk to each other about it while we were ‘in’ the car, and we came home again without buying anything. Some how time went by and it got put on the back burner.
Earlier this year Smart FINALLY brought the CDI to the UK (Yay!), and given it's also a very slightly larger model it also has a little more space too! For some reason Smart originally thought the UK would not want the CDI. I can’t imagine who had given them that thought. Crazy! I’ve had three diesel vehicles before and I love diesel.
After serious amounts of reading about the new ForTwo CDI, including visiting the smart web site many times and watching several (almost all!) of the Smart ForTwo videos on YouTube (especially the CDI videos), journalist reports etc, we went for another test drive - but this time in the CDI.
The salesman put us on the Daimler Insurance and allowed us to take the car out unaccompanied. Fantastic! In my opinion this was the best move he could have made, and certainly made a big difference to us. We were out for about 40-45 mins, and even drove home to try some luggage - I’ll talk more about this in another blog.
Long Delivery Time... Err no Thanks!
When we got back to the dealership we talked a little about the car, the options, the prices and then got the delivery timescale bombshell. We expected them to have stock, or maybe a week or so delivery time, assuming we weren’t going to be too picky about an exact specification. They had some white cars with a black Tridion cell available immediately, but I don’t like the white, and if I’m going to buy a Passion, I want the silver Tridion cell! So, how soon could we get one we wanted? Err.... Hmmm...... end of November Sir! Wow! From the beginning of August to the end of November! That’s enough time for me to change my mind, and besides, I would be moaning about the extra fuel I could be saving every time I drove my current car right up until the Smart was delivered.
So..... I asked about the demonstrator, and if we could buy that!
Demonstrator Available ?
My Wife’s BMW Z3 was a demonstrator, and we have been very happy with it - so it was worth a try in order to skip the queue. Besides, the demonstrator had lots of goodies added like the leather heated seats, iPod connector and stereo upgrade. To my surprise they said yes they would sell it, and gave a price below what I had expected.
We decided to go home and think about it for a short time, get an insurance quote etc, then phoned the dealer back and told them we would take it!
So now we are waiting for delivery - hopefully on Monday!
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