I have the title

[cjsmith]

I found the title.

I just about cried with relief. I am crushingly overloaded right now, and this takes a lot of work off my plate.

I've had it all along. For thirteen years I've thought I didn't. I've had the loan paid notice too. For thirteen years these have sat quietly in a file folder, inside the envelope in which they were originally mailed to me.

State Farm says I just mail the Massachusetts title to them and they'll deal. They're going to mail me paperwork. (Let the haggling begin.)

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Re: Hurrah!

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Nope--used cars are used cars. And I'd worry about a used hybrid just because of the lifespan of the batteries.
When I was looking at cars, I found that the Scion xA was pretty nice, as long as you made sure to get the side airbags. Scion is a 'no haggle' car, much like Saturn, but they had a really nice '05 at Courtesy Chevrolet the other day. Don't know if it's still there, but it was still under factory warranty.

Re: Hurrah!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Darn. Going used is now the only way to get the little yellow stickers. There are a large handful of 2005 Civic hybrids -- batteries only a year old -- on the Anderson Honda lot, but they are definitely not a no-haggle place...

Re: Hurrah!

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

How come you can't get the yellow stickers on a new once?

Re: Hurrah!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

They ran out.

Re: Hurrah!

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

This is one of those governmental bureaucracy things that's just gonna make me crazy if I think about it, isn't it?

Re: Hurrah!

[ambar.livejournal.com]

When they approved issuing stickers to hybrids (before they were only available for electric cars), the number of stickers was limited. I think to 75k, and there were 55k registered hybrids in the state at the time, but you know, those car manufacturers, they keep crankin' em out...

Why? There were concerns about the amount of load being added to the carpool lanes.

Re: Hurrah!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I just read ambar's reply.

In other words, "yes." :-)

Re: Hurrah!

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

If you know exactly which one you want, I can make a call on your behalf, but I need to know that you're going to walk in and buy it, not change your mind. That's why used car haggling is so much harder.

Re: Hurrah!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Good to know. I will definitely NOT ask for that unless I am absolutely committed.

(I'm still also very interested in a regular normal Civic sedan. Thoughts percolating. When they're done, my subconscious will Tell Me, and I will suddenly have no more doubts. Weird...)

Re: Hurrah!

[oddhack.livejournal.com]

I bought a new Accord at Anderson Honda a few years ago and it was very much no-haggle. Went to the Internet sales manager, he quoted a price, I noted that was lower than the price from carsdirect.com I was using as a baseline, and we shook on it. Don't know that used sales would necessarily work anything like that, but it might be worth checking.