I didn't choose it, it chose me. On June 28th, 2003 I was in the showroom of Marlow Heights Chrysler to trade my PT Cruiser Ltd on a GT Cruiser. Same car but a little cooler and faster. While I was wandering around the showroom waiting for the sales guy to get back from one of many meetings with the sales manager I saw it. What the hell is this? A Crossfire? Silver Blue metallic, Never heard of it?
One of the other sales managers must have seen the drool from my mouth and he came over and told me about the car. Wanna sit in it? Real bad suggestion, of couse I sat in it. I sat in it two or three times. "Just came in yesterday", he said. We popped the hood, all kinds of thoughts are now running through my head. Sticker on the window said $37,000 FIRM. No way I thought but definitely one of the prettiest, coolest most unique cars I'd ever seen. So at approximately 11:00 a.m. June 28th , 2003 my love affair with the Crossfire began. I drove home though in my new GT Cruiser. I told my wife when I got home about the car I saw and you get free luggage with it! Unfortunately she could understand a car she couldn't see but she'd hear about for the next two years over and over. About a year and a half later I started the "quest". Tired of driving PT's after 4 years and I was ready for the Crossfire. I went to dealers all over the place.....they had ads in the paper for 27,900 but when you got there no 27,900. My heart sank. I loved the Crossfire, had to have one. About 6 months later I decide to try again. This time at a new dealership in Rockville. I go in and its pretty much the same story, too upside down on the GT, payments were huge. And the salesman says to me "aren't you Katie and Sean's dad"? It turned out Mike was one of their high school buddies turned car salesman. So I told him where I wanted to be on the car, if anything ever looked promising, call me.
About 3 weeks later I'm at the beach and my cell phone rings and its Mike.
With the incentives and employee discount I think I can get you in the car come in when you get back. I spent Friday afternoon haggling. I think I pushed poor Mike as far as you can push a car salesman. I was ready to walk out, again and the salesmgr said lets sit. We went back and forth for another 20 minutes or so and met halfway. Said to myself this is as close as it gets, DO IT! So Mike had to drive to Allentown PA in a horrible rainstorm that Friday evening to pick up my car but the next day I had exactly the car I had dreamed about for two long years. What made it even better was there was a crowd around it when I pulled out of the lot. I signed on here not to long after that and I have been a very happy Crossfire owner since.
Pat