Take the Wheel: A Woman's Guide to Buying a Car Her Own Damn Self
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0989365808 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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You need to Take the Wheel, and Kristen Hall-Geisler, automotive journalist and woman herself, is here to help.. You need a clue. The miles on your odometer keep ticking over, and you keep putting it off: the dreaded day when you have to buy a new (or new to you) car. You need a budget. You weigh every clunk and ping against the pain of spending time with a car salesman. You need a friend to tell you how smart and awesome you are, and that you've totally got this
I'm buying this book for my three daughters This book kicks ***. The content is a delight to read because it's as sassy and savvy as the subtitle. Heck, I learned more than a few things about car buying strategies that go far beyond the kick-the-tire approach I usually use. Everything from budgeting, analyzing your needs, . Hilarious and Helpful Who would have thought I could laugh my way through a book about cars? But the information is so engaging too, and I appreciate the message--that you don't need to bring a man (or a mechanic, or a car buff, or your dad, or whomever) to the dealership. Everyone should read this.Po. "Don't Buy a Car Without It" according to Timmis. This comprehensive how-to guide for women buying cars is surprisingly slim and convenient to haul around with you. It covers everything from if you even need a car to why the car-buying experience is generally different for women than for men to how to find the best car for your
- Jim Redden, Portland Tribune, November 14, 2013. - John M. Vincent, OregonLive, July 26, 2013At 140 pages, Take the Wheel is a quick read filled with useful tips, funny personal stories and acute observations about human behavior. Spoken with a voice of someone who's been there, automotive journalist Hall-Geisler deftly explains in Take the Wheel the best strategies for finding the car you want, making sure it's the car you need, and buying it at a fair price with a minimum of drama. Although it's ai
Kristen Hall-Geisler is a freelance automotive journalist living in Portland, Oregon. She is also the author of Alternative Fueliverse: A Beginner's Guide to Green Cars.. Her work has appeared nationally in the New York Times and on HowStuffWorks, among others, and locally in Portland Monthly and Portland Business