We recently decided to buy a car. Like most people, we are rather averse to dealerships, so we thought we'd give CarMax a try. First, we went to their web site: Carmax.com. There we browsed online through the listings.We had a pretty good idea of what we wanted. In fact, we were pretty sure we wanted either a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry. We'd been researching cars for quite some time and had pretty much decided that due to reliability, engineering and customer satisfaction polls, these two cars had good reason to be the top two most popular cars sold in the United States. We learned right away though, that CarMax doesn't sell Hondas so that left us looking at a Toyata. In all honesty, we'd thought about the Prius, but decided it was just too small for us. But, since we were still looking to buy something that wouldn't break the bank, we didn't look at any of the pricier models and focused exclusively on the Camry.CarMax had more then twenty Camry's listed right there on its web site. The no-haggle price made it easy to pick one we liked, which turned out to be a blue one with all the basics, which meant power everything and a few niceties like remote key locking and sensors up the whazoo.
Once we had one we thought we liked, we were given a closer view. We saw pictures of the actual vehicle and liked what we saw. We were given a complete list of what came with the car and used the little on-line calculator to figure out what our monthly payments would be under various scenarios. Within a mater of a couple of hours of talking it over, we were convinced this car was for us. It should be noted that we considered taking time out to go over to a dealership to look at some Accords, but after some more discussion, we both realized that we liked the Toyota cars we'd seen on the road and had been passengers in with others that owned them, more than we did the Honda vehicles, so we said forget Honda and decided to get more information on the Toyota.