CTS Wagon and a....tuba?

jv8 wrote:

mazdeuce wrote: You actually can't order one. They're at the end of production for them.

This makes me sad. While financially I could afford one I just couldn't pull the trigger on $67K even knowing they won't depreciate much. I'm torn because I really want another 550HP manual sportwagon on US roads. I'm almost ready to move to Europe for the sportwagons... I'll just go back to hunting unicorns now...

unicorns are on the endangered species list, drop the rifle and get to the dealer now, for the orphans. Do you hate America? Do you want the terrorists to win? Do your civic duty and CONSUME a Cadiilac.

Buy the damn car... then the smallest berkeleying tuba you can get, but buy the damn car.

fasted58 wrote: Buy the damn car... then the smallest berkeleying tuba you can get, but buy the damn car.

It fits. Back on page three is the picture. It looks like there is tons of room, but in fact the glass is pretty damn close to the tuba with the hatch closed. I brought it down to the dealer in the 911 and had the guy drag an already sold wagon up to the front to make sure it would fit. Certainly the weirdest thing I've done while buying a car, though I did lay down in a transit connect once to make sure I could sleep in the back.
The dealer found the car I want, I have permission to buy. I just need to make a deposit or something to hold the car until I can rustle up the GM numbers from my in-laws to get the discount and I'm golden. I think the car is in Dallas, so it will have to make it's way down here somehow, and then I can make super duper fast school runs.

Cadillac "Preferred Customer". Sign on the line and it will magically appear.

Between the time I said I'd take it, and the time the dealer got back to me, that car sold. God dammit. The search is on again.

mazdeuce wrote: Between the time I said I'd take it, and the time the dealer got back to me, that car sold. God dammit. The search is on again.

Suck. Ass. If I were you my patience would be running thin.

look up this way. ill pick you up at the airport. charlotte, nc

This is insanity. Between the Aerowagon fiasco and this......
OK, the dealer said the car sold, that the closest one he could find was in Florida. OK. Bummer. I check autotrader and their affiliated dealership in Dallas says they still have one that is different than the one that they said they could get me. I called up there, and the one online indeed sold last night, BUT, the one that they said they'd send to Houston and then wouldn't sent to Houston was still available! Same car, I just have to fly to Dallas to pick it up, and the dealership will pay for the ticket.
Yay!
Holy hell.
Why is car buying always an adventure?

I don't know, but when the adventure ends with a cts vagon, it is worth it.

Sounds like you have a really supportive wife - good deal dude!

I like the "we'll fly you to Houston" option, that sounds like fun :)

Another road trip!

At least you know your bags will fit in the trunk.

I'm excited to live vicariously through you. The CTS-V wagon is my dream car.

Music, suspense, travel, 550HP sport wagon, this thread has it all.

Another fly and drive!

It should be fun, though I'm not counting my chickens before they hatch with how things have gone lately. I want to fly up there and get it on Saturday, though my wife (rightly) thinks that it would be easier to go the next Friday because she has the day off work and could more easily drop me at the airport. We'll sort out logistics tomorrow.

kazoospec wrote: At least you know your bags will fit in the trunk.

As long as he doesn't take the tuba!

Dude, I'm driving back now. Could have helped.

I have a buddy that works for Sewell Cadillac in DFW if you need contact and help.

Wait a minute. Get the car. But a couple of pages back it started to seem like I am sort of associated with a bunch of aging (another thread) BAND GEEkS. Another eureka moment!