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Ralph Mowery

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Mass produced for the most part. But we did one better, and did not
accept any car off any dealer's lot. We were ready to walk until the
dealership's general manager made a calll to the factory. The was
that we did want the leather seats, but we did not want the V-6
engine. We had also specifiede virtually option that could be had.
The color we wanted was the factory's lowest priority on requested
colors. The agreement they arrivd at included all our wants and
needs, and nothing we didn't want. They put the order in at the
beginning of the productioin line and, in effect, we will end up with
a "cusom" built car. This reminded me ofthe 1970s when you could
custom order a car exactly the way you wanted it.

I am glad you were able to do that. Had I been after the 2018 year car I
probably could have done that, or searched around and waited a while as
I did not need to trade as the car was in great shape and had just over
30,000 miles on it.

However the 2018 is so ugly we did not want that one, the 2017 is not
that much better, but the 18 will probably be around for about 3 or more
years as it was a major design change for Toyota. The 17 is out of
production I am sure, so have to take what is out there. The main
reason to trade is there is a 0% finance option. I could afford to buy
it without financing, but why not take advantage of the 7 year 0 % and
'make' about 3 or 4 thousand off the deal if the stock market keeps
going up ?

I remember getting a 1972 Dodge ordered like I wanted. Last time I had
a chance to do that. Got married and had to settle for what we could
afford for a number of years.