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An Altima Hybrid Buying Experience. Need advice

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Buying new NAH by purliss
Nov 19, 2007 (6:14 pm)
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I am likely going to buy a new NAH, and I want to get all the bells and whistles. Looks like few if any 2007s exist. Any experience with Carsdirect.com? What are some of the latest best prices out there? Is the government tax incentive still in effect?
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Re: Buying new NAH [purliss] by langjie
Nov 20, 2007 (9:20 am)
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Replying to: purliss (Nov 19, 2007 6:14 pm)

no new 2007 nah's exist with all the bells and whistles...you need to get a 2008
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Re: Buying new NAH [purliss] by bcp01scu05
Nov 20, 2007 (10:24 am)
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Replying to: purliss (Nov 19, 2007 6:14 pm)

I went through Carsdirect and had a great experience, although I would suggest knowing exactly what you want (since there's no test drive involved, etc), and you will probably have to give them two color choices. I was able to get my first choice, though.
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Tracking a new Altima Hybrid order by emgr
Nov 21, 2007 (9:44 am)
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Without calling the dealer daily, is there a way to track a new Altima order before delivery?
 
I have the Vin number.
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Re: Tracking a new Altima Hybrid order [emgr] by hiwayman
Nov 25, 2007 (9:58 am)
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Replying to: emgr (Nov 21, 2007 9:44 am)

Unless there's a new part of the Nissan website that I haven't found, the answer is "no". I'm not sure how Nissan does it everywhere, but in Northern California, the cars are taken to a central depot once they're taken off the train. They are then transported by private truckers to the dealerships. Even the dealerships don't know exactly when the car will arrive, as far as I can tell, because of the private trucker variable. My dealership kept telling us the car was coming in a day, in a week, in a day, in a week. They had JUST told us the car wouldn't be in for a week, and a couple of hours later, they called us and said the car was IN. Weird... You'd think in these days of GPS locating, and electronic tracking (Like FedEx and UPS does), they could get a better ideal, but apparently not...the good news is, if you've been given a VIN, it won't be long, now. That was one of the last events to happen to us, before we got our car.
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Re: Tracking a new Altima Hybrid order [hiwayman] by emgr
Nov 25, 2007 (10:42 am)
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Replying to: hiwayman (Nov 25, 2007 9:58 am)

Hiwayman.
 
Your last few lines wree the most encouraging I have heard. I am going to contact the dealer tomorrow as he said that he still thought the car would be in by the end of November. I will just tell him "Guess what? It is the end of November."
 
Almost 6 months of waiting.
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Finally coming. by emgr
Nov 26, 2007 (8:28 pm)
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Notifiied today that the Hybrid with Jade and Tech package I ordered 6 months ago will be able to to picked up on December 5, next Wednesday.
 
Has anyone by driving slow been able to move the Altima up to 40 MPH in EV mode only without the engine coming on? does it say in EV mode about the same as the Camry?
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Re: Finally coming. [emgr] by tropo
Nov 29, 2007 (8:04 am)
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Replying to: emgr (Nov 26, 2007 8:28 pm)

We have the exact same car (jade, Tech and Sunroof), We did not wait for it for six months, but a month as the dealer swapped it with another dealer. You will enjoy this car.
 
We test drove the Camry Hybrid, and we feel that the EV mode is the same. As far as getting the Altima to 40 MPH in EV mode, it could be done in the following conditions:
1. There are no cars behind you at all.
2. you are not in a rush and have got all day
3. Accelerate ever so gently that barely touch the gas pedal.
 
In simple practical terms, no you can't get it to 40 MPH on EV mode. On the other hand, we average on the car close to 40 MPG.
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Re: Finally coming. [emgr] by hiwayman
Nov 29, 2007 (10:09 am)
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Replying to: emgr (Nov 26, 2007 8:28 pm)

You CAN get the car to get close to 40 M, PH in EV mode EVENTUALLY. We do it all the time, now, on flat streets, driving like there are egg shells between your foot and the accelerator pedal. Don't expect that to happen right away, though. The machinery is very tight when it's new. Our experience was that the gas mileage got better and better as we put more miles on the car, and the EV mode would stay on for higher and higher MPHs. When we got our first oil change, we saw a significant jump in performance.
 
On the rare occassions I get to drive the car (my wife has claimed it as hers) I try to make a game out of it, and see what speed I can get to before the ICE kicks in. I've actually briefly gotten it over 40 (milliseconds, it seems like) but getting it to high 30's under the right conditions (flat road or slight downhill) is not uncommon.
 
The other thing we've noticed, which doesn't take a physics major to figure out is that the faster you go on the freeway, the worse your gas mileage gets. The car WILL go quite fast (I've had it over 100 on desert roads). The gas mileage seems OK up to about 70 or a little over, but you get above that, and your computer will start calculating gas mileage numbers that are a little less than you'd like. We recently charged all the way up the I-5 from LA to San Francisco at about 75, and our gas mileage was in the 34 MPG range. Not bad, but not the best the car can do.
 
EV is where this thing shines. I actually LIKE sitting in stop-n-go traffic, now, because I know I'm getting mid-40s gas mileage. Unfortunately for us, we live in a semi-rural area, so we don't get much in the way of traffic snarls, and rarely see the really, really good gas mileage.
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Re: Finally coming. [hiwayman] by emgr
Nov 29, 2007 (10:51 am)
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Replying to: hiwayman (Nov 29, 2007 10:09 am)

Thanks you Hiwayman and tropo for your updates. That is especially helpful. While I was reading your response. I received and email from my New York State dealer (I am in Pa about 60 miles away) that my NAH came in. I hope to pick it up Friday.
 
I will report. I will have a nice 60 mile local highway trip back to report.

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