[torradan]

Well, heading to the stealership in about 15 minutes.

Hopefully this comes out well. He said he's going to "to his best".. which in salesman speak means: "do his best to get more money out of dumb customer".

And I'm all reved up to play hardball. I know what I want, what I want to pay, and what I want to pay per month. Oh, and what model & options I want.

Its going along the lines of:
~$10k MAX. (Since I'm going to probably be rolling some of the lease payments into a new loan, I want it as low as possible. He says he may be able to work something out in regards to the lease payments. Getting a very low % loan (1% FTW) from my folks for a healthy down payment is also available.)

-SVT is probably out of the question
-ST marginally out of the question. They have two 05s on the lot, both are gray though, and I can't get that color. They're listed on the website at 12 & 13k. I'm sure I could get that knocked down to around 10k though.
-3 door, NOT BLACK, 5 speed, and hopefully with a 2.3 (so an 03 or 04) but I'll settle on a zetec, which means I'll have some stuff for sale soon.
-no retarded mileage.
-not signing a frickin thing until I have some other people look it over (wife, parents, brother).
-also throwing in that i'll go to another dealership if necessary.

Contemplating taking a tube of KY with me, just in case.

I'm very nervous. I hate car salesman. I hate the whole process.