Look what I get to drive for the next few days!

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11/19/2014 at 16:43 • Filed to: grand marquis

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I'm currently on the "demo" plan which means I get to drive used cars from the lot. I typically just grab something freshly traded so that way the detailers only have to clean it up for display once.

And look what I'm taking home!

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Excuse the potato quality pic.

Bonus: it's got a full tank!


DISCUSSION (8)


Kinja'd!!! Where have all the lightweights gone? > As Du Volant
11/19/2014 at 16:46

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I can tell you one thing from experience: Their handling characteristics can be best described as "nautical".


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Where have all the lightweights gone?
11/19/2014 at 16:49

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Nautical, but determined. More of a sloop than a full galleon, IMHO.


Kinja'd!!! Thunderface > As Du Volant
11/19/2014 at 17:19

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Please tell me how it is overall, I might be getting one like this as a first car


Kinja'd!!! Coffey_stain > As Du Volant
11/19/2014 at 19:51

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the demo plan is the best! nobody else understands why I like to take the "oddballs"

I do it for the thrills

and style points


Kinja'd!!! thebigbossyboss > As Du Volant
12/03/2014 at 08:55

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That's pretty neat. I want to pick random cars and drive around. Do they let you take them on roadtrips or do you have to get your own car for that?


Kinja'd!!! As Du Volant > thebigbossyboss
12/03/2014 at 09:05

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You're not supposed to take them on road trips, though as long as you're back the same day nobody really cares- I took one on a one-day hiking trip to West Virginia last weekend.

It's a perk you pay for though, they charge us a monthly fee to use the cars- but it's cheaper than (most) car payments and with the mileage I put on going to all our company's different locations I'm saving a boatload by not having to do maintenance on my car for all those miles.


Kinja'd!!! thebigbossyboss > As Du Volant
12/03/2014 at 09:08

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Oh ok, so you have your own car also for that sort of stuff. I was wondering. That must be pretty neat. I imagine most are blah, but I'd enjoy the variety.


Kinja'd!!! As Du Volant > thebigbossyboss
12/03/2014 at 09:12

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Yeah, most of them are pretty bland, but probably 1 in 5 that I grab is really nice. I generally go for whatever has the most gas in it honestly. The variety definitely is nice.

My SO and I only own one (operational) car. Both our names are on it but it's really "her" car. I figured, what's the point in paying for something I'm almost never going to drive?

Once I have the money saved up I'm going to just pay cash for something older yet solid so I can at least have something of my own to drive when she's out of town.