Posted on 12/22/2005 11:30:43 AM PST by JZelle
The shiny new car, topped with a big red bow and parked in the driveway on Christmas morning, isn't just commercial fantasy or every 15?-year-old's dream. Luxury auto dealerships in the Washington area say about 20 percent to 30 percent of their December sales are purchases made as holiday gifts, prompting them to keep a hefty supply of oversized red bows. About 20 percent of customers buying cars at the Rosenthal Jaguar in Vienna, Va., this month are buying holiday presents, sales manager Ogun Yilmazer said. The dealership is usually in on the plan, dropping the car off at friends' homes or around the corner from the recipient on Christmas Eve. "We ruined one surprise ... we called the house and the wife [who was to receive the car] answered," he said. They don't call the house anymore. The Jaguar XJ8 is the most popular gift model and runs about $61,000 -- at the low end. Andrew Menditch, a salesman at Northwest BMW in Owings Mills, Md., sold two BMW 325XIs to one man last week -- one for his daughter and one for his wife.
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These comercials always seemed weird to me. Not sure how taking out a $40,000 car loan can be considered a gift.
some people probably have the liquid assets to plunk down all the cash for it.
did that for my ex wife years ago.. altho it was a cutlass cierra, not a lexus.
There would be a Lexus under the Redwood Trees in our yard if there was a dealer nearby...
Heck, I'm wondering if the guy that bought the two Jags would want to adopt me...
LOL! : )
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