Re:Detroit News Vehicle of the Year is a Tesla
by gnicholas on Thursday December 27, 2018 @05:21PM
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Not parent, but we also had several bad experiences test driving cars in the bay area. One common theme was that reps didn't want to let us see more than one vehicle. This happened at both the Toyota dealership in Palo Alto and the Hyundai dealership in Burlingame.
We shouldn't have been flagged as non-serious buyers because we have plenty of money to buy the cars we were looking at, live in an expensive town, and we weren't looking at fun-to-drive cars. We were about to have our first child and were going to buy a family car. And we drove onto the lot in a new car that we'd just purchased!
Nonetheless, the reps only wanted us to see one vehicle. Only after insisting did they let us see a second vehicle (and at the Hyundai dealership we were literally shown this one by the janitor, not a sales rep).
We were so turned off by the whole experience that we ended up buying our subsequent vehicles used from individuals. I'm sure I'll buy a new car again someday, but I don't look forward to the process.
We shouldn't have been flagged as non-serious buyers because we have plenty of money to buy the cars we were looking at, live in an expensive town, and we weren't looking at fun-to-drive cars. We were about to have our first child and were going to buy a family car. And we drove onto the lot in a new car that we'd just purchased!
Nonetheless, the reps only wanted us to see one vehicle. Only after insisting did they let us see a second vehicle (and at the Hyundai dealership we were literally shown this one by the janitor, not a sales rep).
We were so turned off by the whole experience that we ended up buying our subsequent vehicles used from individuals. I'm sure I'll buy a new car again someday, but I don't look forward to the process.