The best experience of all the new cars I've bought, was a Pontiac way back in the winter of '66. You know, prehistoric. They had a wall in the dealership with a bulletin board about 4x12 feet than listed ALL the models and ALL the options including All the packages and prerequisites. The list prices were listed along side each.
Now this is when you could buy a Chevy pickup for $1700 or a Mustang for$2200 but I was only making $6k a year. Anyway, you could get a heavy duty cooling system for $20 or HD shocks for $9. There were lots of desirable options that most people didn't even know existed unless they were on a car on the lot. Most on the lot didn't have this stuff, to keep the prices as low as possible.
I spent 2 evenings making a wish list and rewriting it a hundred times until I knew exactly what I wanted to order. Hey, fun for the feeble minded.
