The Gray Family: Hello Durango

We've been talking about getting a new vehicle some time this Fall. Jen wants something with a third row. Dustin wants something that can haul/tow ThunderPig if needed. We have done our research but just couldn't narrow down something we both completely fell in love with. Jen wanted a Toyota Highlander, Dustin wanted a Toyota Tundra (no third row seating in that!). So today we got a babysitter and decided to test drive the Toyotas. We drove the Highlander, 4 Runner and the Tundras. No matter how much you tell a car salesman that you aren't purchasing today they always keep pushing...."what would it take for you to take this car home tonight". The 4 Runner wasn't 'comfortable', the Highlander had the room, the Tundra was just big.

We left the Toyota Dealership and ran some errands (remember the kids were with the babysitter!). One of our errands put us near the auto mall in Sandy. Dustin said, "Hey lets go look at the Durango's...those are REALLY sweet trucks". Jen sighed and said okay. We found a sales person and Dustin chatted car specs/options with the guy while Jen looked the Durango through and through. Plenty of room - even in the third row, and the layout of the dashboard was far superior to what we had just seen in the Toyota's. We went for a test drive. Finally a salesman that ASKED us to peel out in the parking lot. Dustin was like a gitty school girl driving that V8 HEMI. He was hooked. The salesman took us to the side lot where we looked at all the Durango's they had in stock....from a distance there was another Durango that a salesman was driving - we asked, what about that one? It was the color Dustin wanted (black) and had the rim package Dustin wanted and was the model Dustin wanted. That particular Durango was the "demo". Basically the sales staff special orders a Durango with all the bells and whistles to show as a demo. They normally keep it until around 3,000 miles and then sell it. This Durango had 2,200 miles on it....so we asked them if they would sell it to us for a better than new car price. To make a long story short...they did :) We traded in the 4Runner....and left that evening (yes, even though we didn't have to price haggle it still took FOREVER for them to finish the paperwork) with a 2013 DURANGO R/T!