It is no secret that I am not a fan of certain brands or concepts, but sometimes for the greater good you just need to suck it up and take one for the team.
Last weekend started out innocently enough as I left town on Friday afternoon for a weekend campout with my son. I have known for sometime my wife was looking for a replacement for her Mercedes-Benz ML350 and I knew she had narrowed her final choices down to a relatively small list. I also felt confident that she was in good hands with our friends over at E-CarOne in Carrollton. They had sold us the ML350 just a scant 24 months earlier and we have whole heartedly recommended them ever since. I knew she could hardly do wrong.
Since the campout was in a remote region of Texas I knew communication would be impossible. So while en-route to the homestead on Sunday morning I gave her a call and she said she had a surprise for me when I got home. Obviously she had made a choice and my mind raced as to what it could be. Was it another Mercedes? Perhaps a BMW X5, or maybe even the Infiniti FX she was eying? Whatever the choice was I felt she had done well. She knows how to make a well informed decision.
And then I got home.
We parked out front and she greeted me at the door and escorted me to the garage. As the door slowly rolled opened I immediately recognized the shape, it was a late model Lexus RX! Oh lord would I EVER live THIS down! As I walked around to the back I saw it was a RX400h. An "h"? Oh no a HYBRID! I was speechless. How could I be caught dead with a Hybrid in the stable after all I have said over the years? I started to feel faint.
After the initial shock had worn off, I looked over the deal, and realized yet again our friends at E-CarOne had done us well. Not only had she done an exceptionally fine job of finding a clean example of the breed with low miles, she got it for well under market value and received top dollar for her trade! There wasn't a thing I could complain about with the finances. I would simply have to live with the thought of not only a Lexus in the house, but a hybrid as well.
So I come to you my friends and tell you that while I haven't sold my soul to the devil just yet. I have opened the door agreed to take my medicine like a man and at least give the brand and the hybrid concept a personal trial. If there ever was a poster child for the typical soccer mom in a Lexus my dear wife is it. I also assure you by the time this ownership experience is over, I will indeed have arrived at the what the real truth is about both.
So I invite you all to see the latest vehicle in Agent009's stable a 2008 Lexus RX400h.
I want to give a special shout out to Josh, Ryan and Ozzie over at E-CarOne for making this deal the way any car purchase should be, a fair and painless process.
My only worry is going to be explaining this one to the rest of my family..... Oh lord, I think I'm feeling sick again!
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