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Hello Team,
Its been a while I posted on TAI. Hope to keep this thread updated with my latest acquisition 2016 Toyota Camry SE (Bought used- 7 month old)
The posts in this thread are going to be short chapters of how i acquired my this little fella. A journey with no twists or turns .
I parted ways with my Alto in 2013 when I moved to United States for Masters. Fast forward 1 yr, I got an internship which is when the search for a used car began. The dream of finally owning a car was finally close. The cars shortlisted were Mazda 3, Honda Civic and Ford Focus. However, when i had almost finalized the deal on a year old Mazda 3, I got a call from a financial firm in NYC offering me a full time position. Any body who is familiar with the NYC traffic would find it not very hard to guess why i called my dealer to call off the deal.
2 months later, back to NJ (rite across the NYC though ), I was back to commuting by the (in) famous PATH (Subway train). The most popular means of transportation for people working in Manhattan. I became a Zipcar member (a car sharing service) and was zipping around those not so clean (read: properly dirty) cars whenever i needed to go around for groceries or any other daily errand. For longer trips, Enterprise car rental membership (free) always came handy.
Fast forward 2016, my parents visited me for my graduation ceremony. And began the string of car rentals. My dad suggested I get a car instead of running around to pick up and drop off cars. But with my apartment parking at $275/month (That's for covered parking because I never considered parking my car in open sun, call me little too loving), I was adamant to stick to rentals.
Fast forward 2017, my fiancé came to US. The rentals increased and then came a point when I found the renting was happening way too much to make any financial sense.
CHAPTER 2 coming soon....
Introducing Camry (also known as Immigrants car )
Little mods have begun. Auto heads with eagle eyes might be able to spot the first one!
Its been a while I posted on TAI. Hope to keep this thread updated with my latest acquisition 2016 Toyota Camry SE (Bought used- 7 month old)
The posts in this thread are going to be short chapters of how i acquired my this little fella. A journey with no twists or turns .
CHAPTER 1
I parted ways with my Alto in 2013 when I moved to United States for Masters. Fast forward 1 yr, I got an internship which is when the search for a used car began. The dream of finally owning a car was finally close. The cars shortlisted were Mazda 3, Honda Civic and Ford Focus. However, when i had almost finalized the deal on a year old Mazda 3, I got a call from a financial firm in NYC offering me a full time position. Any body who is familiar with the NYC traffic would find it not very hard to guess why i called my dealer to call off the deal.
2 months later, back to NJ (rite across the NYC though ), I was back to commuting by the (in) famous PATH (Subway train). The most popular means of transportation for people working in Manhattan. I became a Zipcar member (a car sharing service) and was zipping around those not so clean (read: properly dirty) cars whenever i needed to go around for groceries or any other daily errand. For longer trips, Enterprise car rental membership (free) always came handy.
Fast forward 2016, my parents visited me for my graduation ceremony. And began the string of car rentals. My dad suggested I get a car instead of running around to pick up and drop off cars. But with my apartment parking at $275/month (That's for covered parking because I never considered parking my car in open sun, call me little too loving), I was adamant to stick to rentals.
Fast forward 2017, my fiancé came to US. The rentals increased and then came a point when I found the renting was happening way too much to make any financial sense.
CHAPTER 2 coming soon....
Introducing Camry (also known as Immigrants car )
Little mods have begun. Auto heads with eagle eyes might be able to spot the first one!