Chapter 5: Buying a Car at Fort Worth
Texas, the second largest state in the United States after Alaska in terms of area, has a vast land area of about 700,000 square kilometers.
One of Americans' stereotypes of Texas is the hallmark of the big countryside.
But don't think that there are no people in the big countryside, in fact, the total population of Texas is nearly 24 million, but it seems sparsely populated because of the vast land.
And in recent years, Texas has been among the top three states in the United States in terms of net population inflows.
This is due to the fact that compared with other regions, Texas has a good security environment and living environment, and it is also one of the states with the highest happiness index in the United States.
The Gulfstream G400 takes off from New York.
After a two-and-a-half-hour flight, we landed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a civil airport jointly owned by Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, is located approximately 24 kilometers from Dallas and 29 kilometers from Fort Worth.
This is the largest and busiest airport in Texas.
The airport has a total of five terminals, with American Airlines accounting for the majority of the four.
This airport, itself the United States, is also the first base of American Airlines, the world's largest airline.
As the third-largest airline in the United States, Delta Air Lines also has a terminal here.
It is Terminal E, where the Gulfstream G400 docks and lands.
There are thirty-six gates in Terminal E.
Sixteen are cargo aircraft boarding gates, which are boarding gates for air cargo shipments.
There are twenty left, and four are VIP gates.
Delta's VIP service for Amex is, of course, able to enjoy one of the four VIP gates.
Abel ignored the hints of the glamorous stewardess Catherine Jones.
The reason is the fear of insecurity.
He left the airport with four bodyguards, through one of the VIP gates.
Airport Exterior,
The company has prepared a vehicle and a driver for him.
This time, Abel came home and did not inform his parents.
And no one came to pick him up.
There is still about 60 kilometers to get from the airport back to the farm home in Tarrant County.
In between, you also have to pass through the city of Fort Worth, because Fort Worth is the county seat of Tarrant County.
Such a long way,
Of course it's not possible to take a taxi.
What's more, compared to other regions, the taxi industry in Texas is not well developed.
It's okay in big cities like Dallas, but out of those big cities, you can't find a few taxis in the whole of Texas.
The nickname of the big countryside is not blown out.
The company provided him with two Mercedes-Benz cars and two drivers.
The sedan Abel laughed, but the driver was useless.
He has been with his four bodyguards for half a year, and each of them is an excellent driver.
The only white man among them was a Fort Worth.
Very familiar with the local road conditions.
So he simply let Edward, a white bodyguard, be his driver.
George, a black bodyguard, and three of himself in a car.
The other two bodyguards, Lin, and Deka, drove another car.
Two cars and five people set off and left the airport.
When I boarded the plane in New York, it was already half past ten in the morning.
After a two-and-a-half-hour flight, it was now past one o'clock in the afternoon.
Lunch was already eaten on the plane, and it was very good.
It's a private jet after all.
So after getting in the car, Abel directly said to the bodyguard driver Edward:
"Let's take a trip to Fort Worth and buy a few cars there. If I drove back in a car, I would make fun of my father. ”
He is also a native of Texan, and the son of a small ranch farmer.
Edward knew what his boss meant.
"Understood."
Leaving behind two drivers hired by Amex, the two sedans began to leave Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Texas is vast and sparsely populated, and the highways are very spacious.
The road conditions are also good, plus there are few speed limits.
So after almost 30 kilometers of driving, Edward only drove for ten minutes to reach Fort Worth.
Don't look at Tarrant County, which is not big, but the county governs Fort Worth, which is the sixteenth largest city in the United States.
Together with Dallas, Arlington and other cities, it constitutes the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States.
In its early days, Fort Worth became a busy commercial center with its livestock industry and later the oil industry.
Today, Fort Worth has developed into one of the best cities in Texas for living and business.
Fort Worth, known as the "Land of the West," is also the center of American cowboy culture.
In other words, this is the purest Texas Redneck base.
So the most driven vehicles in Fort Worth are not flat cars.
There are all kinds of pickup trucks all over the place, and there are people riding horses on the roads of the city.
In the middle, Abel also saw that there were several American policemen on horseback, who were very Texas mounted policemen.
According to the boss's orders, in the city of Fort Worth.
Edward drove straight to one of the largest car dealerships in the area.
This is the largest car dealer in Fort Worth and the largest pickup truck dealer in all of Tarrant County.
Park your car,
Straight inside, in the lively hall.
Soon a blonde saleswoman greeted her with a smiling face.
"Hello gentlemen. We have cars from Ford, Chevrolet, GM, Dodge, Toyota, and many more brands here. No matter which style you want, we have you covered!! ”
Blonde saleswomen are full of words, and indeed there are cars of these brands as well.
But in fact ....
The models of these brands here cannot be said to be 100% pickup.
But at least 95 percent of them are pickup trucks.
As the fifth-largest city in Texas, Fort Worth is not without luxury car or sports car sellers.
Bigger farmers, and oil merchants, it's easy for them to buy sports cars, luxury cars.
But the place is the center of cowboys, and the most popular are the wide variety of pickup trucks and some SUVs.
Not to mention sports cars and luxury cars, Abel drives more and sits more in New York.
When I returned to my hometown, I still opened the classic model of my hometown.
In my memory, my old cowboy father drove a blue Ford ninth-generation F150 the most.
So he said directly: "I want to see the Ford F-series, I want the latest model." ”
The blonde saleswoman smiled sweetly: "No problem, please go this way." We have the latest 10th generation F-Series! All colors are available! ”
She took Abel directly to the showroom of the Ford pickup series.
As far as the eye can see, more than a dozen Ford pickup trucks of various colors are neatly placed.
There is the most basic model, and it is also the F150 that sells first in Texas and even in the United States.
There is also an upgraded version of the F150, a larger F350 that looks more muscular.
Even the F550, which is not so much a pickup truck as a van, has it.
Have you ever seen a pickup truck with a length of more than eight meters, a height of more than three meters, a width of more than two meters, and a wheelbase of more than five meters?
The F550 is.
The model is very complete.
Even the larger F650 is available, so it's not for nothing that this is known as Fort Worth's No. 1 car dealership.
Abel came here just because he didn't want to drive home in a car.
He said directly to the blonde woman: "I need two F350s, the highest spec, one blue and one red." ”
Simple and straightforward, he remembered that his dad had always wanted this car.
But because it's more expensive, I haven't bought it.
Then let's just buy it back together this time.