Short answer: They would rather just sell it Undriven.
Long answer: If they don't see you as a sure-to-buy customer, they don't want to rack up the miles on a demonstrator.
So the question becomes: How do you become taken seriously as a Potential Fat Commision Check? I mean customer?
Look the part:
Dress like you can make the payments for the car, and every option the dealer can lard-on.
Start talking Deal.... look at it, ask about it, and make the salescritter see himself spending the commission.
Make sure you don't bat an eye when he meantions the 'x' dollars per month, or how this one has a lot of extras in it.
About the time they are ready to go for the kill, mention you would have to test-drive it first, of course.
Then when they say no, and you walk away, the sales manager will be shoving the keys into your hand and begging you to drive it.
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quote:Originally posted by bigslim
Today I went to a local dealer here the Metro Detroit area to test drive a SRT-8 300C. The sale manager there said that I could not drive one because they are a "Specialty Car". He said that they don't even let the salepeople drive them. I then contacted another dealer that I have done business with and said that he would let drive one only because I had purchased a car from them before.
My question is "how is a person suppose to know if they like a car without driving one?" I can understand the car being a Specialty Car" but it is still a $40,000 to $45,000 car. I can go right down the street to a Lexus or Jaguar dealer and drive a $60,000 to $75,000 car with no problem.
I guess this is why the foreign car dealer networks are kicking our aZZes.
BTW, I contacted Chrysler Customer service about this.
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