Chapter 7 Buying a Car?
After the annual meeting, it was January 31, 2000.
After Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu asked each department to come up with the New Year's duty schedule, they generously gave all employees a long vacation. From February 1 to February 13, a total of 13 days of vacation. Even if you have to work shifts, the average vacation time is more than 10 days.
After greeting several executives, the two waited for Comrade Wang to return the next day and returned to their hometown together to prepare for the New Year.
"Chen Wu, you say, how about I buy a car for our dad to go back?"
"Huh, yes, we have several cars, but you don't have a car yet, Uncle Li has already got his driver's license, right?" asked Chen Wu.
"That's right, it's because I have a driver's license that I remember, we are not old enough to drive a car now, our dad can. Just get a bigger car and pull more New Year's goods back. ”
"That's a good idea, so let's go shopping together while my brother-in-law hasn't come back yet?"
"Let's go!"
The two went out of the door shoulder to shoulder, took a taxi, and went directly to the car dealership.
In this era, there is no 4S everywhere in later generations, and almost all of them are sold by a car dealership with multiple brands. Li Xiaoming and the others asked the master to pull them to the relatively large car dealership concentration in the west of the city, and then began to wander around.
"Alas, this is not good in this era, these cars are really ugly. Li Xiaoming shook his head regretfully while looking at it.
Chen Wu also thought deeply about this: "Yes, we are suitable for SUVs or off-road vehicles there, the problem is that these cars are so ugly, you see this Mitsubishi, now it is a god car, but who wants it at that time." ”
"By the way, I think of a car, let's ask if there is one, if there is, it will be sent, after all, it is the only one that has not been remodeled for decades. ”
"Which one?"
"Hehe, Gundan, Big G!"
"I'll go, this can be had, let's go, go and see!"
After the two of them finished discussing, they hurriedly and excitedly got into the car dealership.
In the car dealership, because the Chinese New Year is approaching, there are actually more customers who come to choose a car, plus Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu look too small, and the salesman thinks that these two brothers are the children of their customers, and no one has come to greet them for a long time.
The two wandered for a long time, and finally had to take the initiative to find a salesman who looked relatively idle, and said directly: "Handsome guy, the two of us are here to buy a car, don't look at our little friend, or receive us!"
The salesman saw the two little children in front of him obviously looked confused: "What's the situation? Buy a car? I'm afraid it's not teasing me, right?"
But his professionalism is really good, whatever, he is idle anyway, so he said: "Oh, which car do you want to see? Is it for your parents?"
Hey, this buddy, although the idea is right, but the starting point must be wrong, whatever, the result is the same.
So Li Xiaoming said: "Yes, my dad prefers the big G, do you have this car here?"
When the salesman heard this, he felt even more that these two little kids were here to fool him to play, how could the two children be in charge of the car that was two million smaller in this era?
His attitude was obviously a little perfunctory, but he still said: "The contemptible surname is Liu, you can call me Xiao Liu, we don't have a big G in the car dealership, but if you really want it, we can transfer the car to you from the brother car dealership." ”
"Shunting is it troublesome?"
"Don't bother, each car dealer on our side actually sometimes encounters the situation that the car that the customer wants is not available, each car dealer has its own car with its own characteristics, everyone helps each other, and the adjustment can be done quickly. ”
"Oh, in this way, can you help me introduce me, which big Gs are there?"
"Yes, we have G350, G500, to AMG's G63, and the prices range from 1.3 million to 2.3 million. ”
"Yo, there's a G63?"
"Yes, do you want to see the G63?"
"Can we go over and see?"
"Yes, I can show you there, and then come back when you want to buy it. ”
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go!"
So the two of them, under the leadership of a salesman surnamed Liu, went to a car dealership next door.
"Xiao Liu, come and see the car?" As soon as a few people entered the door of this car dealership, a person who looked to be in his 40s greeted them.
"Hello Boss Wang, yes, these two little brothers helped their parents buy a car, I took them over to take a look, your G63 is still there, right?"
"You are here, you go, and I will not delay your time. Boss Wang waved at Xiao Liu with a smile and looked at Li Xiaoming and the others curiously.
A few people passed through the many exhibition cars in the hall, and from a distance, Li Xiaoming had already seen the car that had not changed for decades but was still not outdated.
The two excitedly pulled the car door and ran to the cab and the co-pilot respectively.
Although this big G is Mercedes' home off-road car, and it is completely different from the hybrid of SUVs, the characteristics of Mercedes are still vividly expressed in the car.
This is evidenced by the generous use of materials and the reliability of the system.
How reliable are these systems – the windows are still hand-cranked.
This is said to be to prevent the appearance of too many electronic components and cause the vehicle to malfunction in harsh environments. Therefore, the parts that can be replaced by machinery in the car basically do not use electronic systems.
The non-load-bearing body is actually not very comfortable in daily use, but in the case of so many broken mountain roads in Yuanxian County, the advantages of this car are fully revealed.
"Okay, that's it, let's buy it in full, don't play the card here, go back to Anya City, you calculate how much money you give us." Li Xiaoming and the two didn't stay in the car for a few minutes, Li Xiaoming turned around directly and said to the salesman Liu who was sitting in the back seat and didn't say a word.
"......" The salesman surnamed Liu was directly confused: "Two, are you sure you want to buy it?"
"Of course, why else are we looking for you?"
"Don't you need me to introduce me again?"
"I don't need to, I can memorize the parameters of this car backwards. ”
“……”
"Hey, don't be stunned, let's go, it's all over the card. ”
Only then did the salesman surnamed Liu come back to his senses and hurriedly agreed: "Oh, oh, oh, okay, the two little bosses, please come with me!"
During this period, the salesman surnamed Liu did not come back to his senses until Li Xiaoming directly took out the card and swiped the card after calculating the car payment and various expenses.
The two of them bought the car, waited for the car dealer to help them wash the car, get a license plate, and so on, and by the way, they called Comrade Wang, who had just gotten off the plane, and asked him to rush to the car dealership directly, otherwise they really couldn't get the car back.
Although in this era, the traffic police did not check private cars at all, but there was nothing wrong with the safety awareness of the two in later generations.
"There are thousands of roads, and safety comes first. The driving is not standardized, and the relatives are in tears. ”
Comrade Wang arrived after a while, looking at the domineering big G in front of him, he smacked his lips and said: "I think my Santana is handsome enough, but compared to this car, it is scum!"
"That's it, you don't see how many Santanas this car is enough to buy!" Li Xiaoming said proudly.
"Isn't it Mercedes? Seven or eight hundred thousand in the sky!" Comrade Wang said uncertainly.
"Hehe, the discount for naked cars is 2.2 million, plus all kinds of messy taxes, and insurance or something, less than 3 million. ”
"What...... What? 3 million? Damn, it's so expensive, why did you buy it? You two are crazy?"
Chen Wu pointed at Li Xiaoming and said, "I didn't buy it, he bought it, buy it for his father, be careful that Uncle Li will kill you if he hears it, uncle." ”
When Comrade Wang heard this, he shrunk his neck and stopped squeaking.
After another hour, the three of them drove the brand-new big G and headed towards the city center in style.