Word: heatherly
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...tells Leversen, "All of our neighbors spoke highly of your grandfather," who founded the business back in 1953. Many of those neighbors worked at the nearby Fisher Body plant on Willow Springs Road, which shut down in 1988. They wouldn't think of buying anything but a GM car. Heather's tastes, though, are not swayed by chauvinism or family tradition. She wants something sporty and stylish...
...next dealer, Dan Wolf Pontiac, where Drew bought Heather's Sunbird, the salesman is pleasantly surprised to see the Starsiaks back in the market so soon. Idle salesmen gather around as if to observe a rare species...
...wonderful," Heather gushes as the salesman opens the convertible top on a $17,300 red Sunbird. She settles into the driver's seat and her eyes gleam with fantasies of the open road. As her mother and the salesman discuss water leaks in convertible tops, Heather says crisply, "Let's talk price." With trade-in and rebate, the Sunbird will...
Final stop is Continental Toyota, where a slick, streamlined Celica has been waiting to capture Heather's heart. She jumps into a white $14,600 hardtop and opens the sun roof, declaring, "This is so cute!" The floor model has a stick shift; instantly Heather insists, "I could learn manual shifting." She would drive it out the door right now if she could. Julie says, "I don't think there's even a comparison" with the Calais or the Sunbird...
...Before Heather takes a Celica for a test spin, her mother confides, "She would give her eyeteeth for this car." Afterward Toyota salesman Richard Misheikis tells mother and daughter that "there's not too much flexibility" in the $14,638 price. Figuring just a $6,000 trade-in allowance plus some options, the cost works...