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Old 11-28-2008, 03:25 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
Location: Bay Area
Drive: '98 Isuzu Trooper
MY DDE is moving forward too fast...

Never guessed I would have ever said that, but it's now true. When I put my reservation in last July my original DDE was end of '09. The date keeps moving up and now it says Dec.26 '08 to March 26 '09. I really wanted to have my husband's car payed off before I take on another car payment. Also my husband isn't as excited about getting a smart any longer because my SUV doesn't cost nearly as much to fill up now as it did in July when we ordered the smart. I hope I don't have to orphan this smart.
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Old 11-28-2008, 03:34 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
Location: El Paso, TX
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We have very short memories, gas will NEVER go back up.

My DDE moved back out near the end to around 2 months prior to the original date.
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Old 11-28-2008, 03:49 PM   #3 (permalink)
 
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[quote=Duckhunter;169210]We have very short memories, gas will NEVER go back up.

I know gas will go up again, but right now it will cost us more to own the smart than to fill up my SUV, that wasn't the problem when we ordered the smart last July. Hopefully I still have another two months to see where gas prices are going.
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Old 11-28-2008, 04:34 PM   #4 (permalink)
 
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Well how much is the smart????......how many years would it take you to save that much on gas???? If you are interested in saving money, buying a smart is maybe not the way to go anyway. You may be faced with another issue anyway...SUV values are in the toilet, and if your purchase was based on the sale of your Isuzu you might not be happy to see what you get for it. If it is not based on the sale of the Isuzu, and you plan on keeping it...you will not save money by having an additional car payment, additional insurance, and additional DMV fees.
I think if you want to wait also, you could orphan your current order and pick one up at no additional cost later on. I think the gouging is about over now, orphans at MSRP will be the norm in the near future if not already.
If you're only thinking of saving money, my good ol 190D does better than anything I own. But seriously, I think you could wait and find a nice orphan when you are ready and not get hit on it now. As our economy continues to slide into the great abyss, you may even see a deal somewhere soon.

Do you really think gas is going to stay down???? It always goes down in the fall anyway, demand is down because of the high prices.....and when people start consuming gas in mass quantities again with their guzzlers, the price will be right back up. Most of this reduction in price has to do with the current dollar value anyway, and that is even more unsure than the price of a barrel at this point.

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Old 11-28-2008, 06:08 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Wow - you're lucky to have it move up - regardless of gas priceds. My dealer estimated our delivery originally Feb - March 2008, just got changed to Sept-Nov 2009 online -- Hope it shortens up cause 17 months is just too darn long for me!
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Old 11-28-2008, 06:44 PM   #6 (permalink)
 
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I've been waiting 15 months, and if it wasn't so darn close now, within 30 days, I 'd just go find an orphan I liked. Prices are finally levelling off, and there arte plenty of them out there now.
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Old 11-28-2008, 08:45 PM   #7 (permalink)
 
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Say it aint so!! Lucy needs her Ethel! It doesn't seem right that someone who sold someone else on the Smart might not get one.

Tell the Hubby that gas will go up again and you can lower your insurance on the Izuzu since you won't be driving it much.

Send him for another test drive!
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Old 11-28-2008, 09:19 PM   #8 (permalink)
 
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Well how much is the smart????......how many years would it take you to save that much on gas???? If you are interested in saving money, buying a smart is maybe not the way to go anyway. You may be faced with another issue anyway...SUV values are in the toilet, and if your purchase was based on the sale of your Isuzu you might not be happy to see what you get for it. If it is not based on the sale of the Isuzu, and you plan on keeping it...you will not save money by having an additional car payment, additional insurance, and additional DMV fees.
I think if you want to wait also, you could orphan your current order and pick one up at no additional cost later on. I think the gouging is about over now, orphans at MSRP will be the norm in the near future if not already.
If you're only thinking of saving money, my good ol 190D does better than anything I own. But seriously, I think you could wait and find a nice orphan when you are ready and not get hit on it now. As our economy continues to slide into the great abyss, you may even see a deal somewhere soon.

Do you really think gas is going to stay down???? It always goes down in the fall anyway, demand is down because of the high prices.....and when people start consuming gas in mass quantities again with their guzzlers, the price will be right back up. Most of this reduction in price has to do with the current dollar value anyway, and that is even more unsure than the price of a barrel at this point.
I plan on keeping my Isuzu. It was paid for long ago and it's a great car. It's just that the mpg is horrible, but right now it would be cheaper to drive it than the smart, which was not the case last July when I ordered the smart. Financially smart me says "orphan the smart", but the emotional me says "I want the smart." Hopefully the smart won't come for a couple of months and then I will just have to see where everything stands. There is also a strong possibility that we will be moving to Austin late spring, and I can always get on their orphan list there if I give up this smart.
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Old 11-29-2008, 12:46 AM   #9 (permalink)
 
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Say it aint so!! Lucy needs her Ethel! It doesn't seem right that someone who sold someone else on the Smart might not get one.

Tell the Hubby that gas will go up again and you can lower your insurance on the Izuzu since you won't be driving it much.

Send him for another test drive!
Tell me about it, I want the chance to drive our two smarts together. We could share the same parking space when we meet for lunch.
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Old 11-29-2008, 06:58 AM   #10 (permalink)
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The Smart is about so much more than just the price of gas...
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