America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 5 Car Buying in Fort Worth

  Texas is the second largest state in the United States after Alaska in terms of area. It has a vast land with a total area of ​​about 700,000 square kilometers.

  One of the inherent stereotypes Americans have about Texas is the sign of a big rural area.

  But don’t think that there are few people in the big rural areas. In fact, the total population of Texas is nearly 24 million, but it seems sparsely populated because of its vast land.

  And in recent years, Texas has been the top three states in the United States with the largest net population inflow.

  This is due to the fact that compared with other regions, Texas has a good security environment and living environment, and it is also one of the states with the highest happiness index in the United States.

  Gulfstream G400 takes off from New York.

  After two and a half hours of flight, we started to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

  Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is a civil airport jointly owned by Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, about 24 kilometers from Dallas and 29 kilometers from Fort Worth.

   This is the largest and busiest airport in Texas.

   There are five terminals in this airport, of which American Airlines occupies most of the four.

  This airport itself is the United States, and it is also the first base of American Airlines, the largest airline in the world.

  As the third largest airline in the United States, Delta Air Lines also has a terminal here.

   is Terminal E where Gulfstream G400 stops and lands.

  Terminal E has thirty-six boarding gates.

  Sixteen are cargo plane boarding gates, which are the boarding gates for air cargo.

  There are 20 left, four of which are VIP boarding gates.

  Delta Airlines provides VIP service for American Express, of course, you can enjoy one of these four VIP boarding gates.

  Abel ignores cues from glamorous stewardess Katherine Jones.

  The reason is fear of insecurity.

  He left the airport through one of the VIP gates with four bodyguards.

   Outside the airport,

  Express has prepared a vehicle and driver for him.

   This time Abel went home without notifying his parents.

   No one came to pick him up.

  It is about 60 kilometers away from the airport to the farm in Tarrant County.

   In the middle, we have to pass through the city of Fort Worth, because Fort Worth is the county seat of Tarrant County.

   such a long way,

  Of course it is impossible to take a taxi.

   Besides, compared with other regions, the taxi industry in Texas is not well developed.

   It’s okay in big cities such as Dallas. Outside of those big cities, there are not many taxis in Texas.

  The nickname of the big countryside is not blown out.

   American Express provided him with two Mercedes-Benz cars and two drivers.

   Limousine Abel accepted, but the driver was of no use to him.

  He has four bodyguards who have been with him for half a year, and each of them is an excellent driver.

  The only white person among them was a Fort Worth man.

  Familiar with local road conditions.

  So he simply let the white bodyguard Edward be his driver.

  The black bodyguard George, and three of himself in a car.

  The other two bodyguards, Lin and Deka, drove another car.

   Two cars and five people set off and left the airport.

  By the time I boarded the plane in New York, it was already half past ten in the morning.

  After two and a half hours of flight, it is already past one in the afternoon.

  Lunch has already been eaten on the plane, and it was very good.

   After all, it is a private jet.

  So after getting in the car, Abel directly said to the bodyguard driver Edward:

   "Go to Fort Worth first, go there and buy some cars. If I go back in the sedan, my father will make fun of me."

   is also a native Texan and the son of a small farmer.

  Edward knew what the boss meant.

"clear."

  Leaving behind two drivers hired by American Express, two cars started to leave Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

  Dezhou is sparsely populated, and the roads are very spacious.

  The road conditions are also good, and there is almost no speed limit.

  So on a road of almost 30 kilometers, Edward only drove for ten minutes before arriving in Fort Worth.

   Despite the small size of Tarrant County, Fort Worth, the county seat, is the sixteenth largest city in the United States.

   Together with Dallas, Arlington and other cities, it constitutes the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States.

  Fort Worth was a busy commercial center in its early days with the livestock industry and later the oil industry.

   Today's Fort Worth has developed into one of the best living and business cities in Texas.

  Fort Worth, known as "the beginning of the West", is also the center of American cowboy culture.

   In other words, this is the purest Texas redneck base.

  So the most driven vehicle in Fort Worth is not a smooth sedan.

  There are all kinds of pickups all over the place, and there are people riding horses on the roads in the city.

   In the middle, Abel also saw several American policemen riding horses, which are very Texas-style mounted policemen.

   According to the boss's order, in the city of Fort Worth.

  Edward drove directly to the largest local car dealership.

  This is the largest car dealership in Fort Worth and also the largest pickup truck dealership in Tarrant County.

   Park the car,

   Go straight in, in the lively hall.

   Soon there was a blonde saleswoman who came out with a smile on her face.

   "Hello, gentlemen. We have Ford, Chevrolet, GM, Dodge, Toyota, you name it. No matter what style you want, we've got you covered!"

  The blond saleswoman is full of words, and does have cars of these brands.

But in fact

  The models of these brands here cannot be said to be 100% pickups.

  But at least 95% of them are pickup trucks.

   As the fifth largest city in Texas, Fort Worth is not without luxury car or sports car sellers.

   Larger farmers and oil merchants can easily buy sports cars and luxury cars.

   But as the center of cowboys, the most popular are all kinds of pickup trucks and some SUVs.

  Not to mention sports cars and luxury cars, Abel drives and sits too much in New York.

  Go back to my hometown, let’s drive the classic model of my hometown.

   In my memory, my old cowboy father drove a blue Ford ninth-generation F150 the most.

  So he said directly: "I want to see the Ford F series, the latest model."

  The blond saleswoman smiled sweetly: "No problem, please go this way. We have the latest 10th-generation F-series! All colors are available!"

  She took Abel directly to the showroom of the Ford pickup.

   As far as the eye can see, more than a dozen Ford pickups of various colors are neatly arranged.

   There is the most basic model, and it is also the F150, which is the best-selling car in Texas and even the United States.

   There is also an upgraded version of the F150, the larger and more muscular F350.

   Even the F550, which is more of a van than a pickup truck, has it.

  Have you ever seen a pickup truck with a length of more than eight meters, a height of more than three meters, a width of more than two meters, and a wheelbase of more than five meters?

  F550 is.

  Models are very complete.

   Even the larger F650 is available, so it's not in vain to claim the No. 1 car dealership in Fort Worth.

  Abel came here just because he didn't want to drive home in a car.

  He directly sold to the blonde girl: "I need two F350s, the one with the highest configuration, one blue and one red."

  Simple and direct, while remembering that Dad always wanted this car.

  But because it is relatively expensive, I have never bought it.

  Then why not just buy them together this time.

   I don’t know if anyone has read it, please ask for a recommendation ticket

  (end of this chapter)