Final Celebration, 2024

I’ve been writing this blog regularly every week for more than ten years.  Frankly, I’m delighted that during that entire ten-year period, through Covid, vacations, and illness, I’ve never missed a posting.

So, what have I done to celebrate the final week of the “old” year?  Yesterday I visited the Lucid car dealership in Century City and bought a new car, to be delivered to my home tomorrow afternoon.

I’ve been told that the best time to buy a new car is on the last day or two of a month.  The theory is that the auto manufacturers, in their unending quest to sell as many cars as possible, tend to give the best rebates for sales at the end of the month.  I don’t know if that’s true, but it is my working hypothesis.

For the past eight years I’ve been driving a Tesla, which has been fine, but a few weeks ago I experienced a new “first”.  I changed lanes without looking and, lo and behold, there was a car next to me in the other lane.  The dealer told me that it would cost about $15,000 for body work to fix my Tesla, and offered to buy it from me “as is” for $23,000.  I figured that was equivalent to a sale for about $40,000 so I accepted their offer.

Like the Tesla, the Lucid is entirely electric and it has a range of almost 400 miles between charges, as compared with a little over a 200-mile range for my Tesla.  But since most of my driving is to and from work, a total of about six miles, I don’t think that will be an issue.

So, if you’re in need of a new car, or a final year-end celebration, you can visit your nearest Lucid dealership.  I’m sure they have another four or five (thousand) cars available that they would love to sell today.

But for those who do not intend to celebrate with the purchase of a new car, I encourage you to look back on all you’ve accomplished over the past year. Give yourself credit and take a moment to celebrate what you’ve achieved. As for me, here’s to another year of writing this blog every week in 2025.

Happy New Year!

Alan