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The dealer I have bought my last 2 cars at... insisted that any test drive would include him in the passenger seat... Which was annoying as my girlfriend who was along doesn't drive so she was either going to have to ride separately with the sales guy driving or in the back seat... So we took our test drive... we liked the look and feel of the car, even with her in the backseat, so we decided to run our credit... Tier one approval... no $ down... good to go...
ME: "Now we test drive alone... and we don't sign anything until after we drive and then we make a final decision."
What could they say? The money was on the table... And if they said "No", I would have said "thanks for setting up the bank... I'll just go to the next dealer and tell them I've already been approved..."
...reluctantly they let us go alone but asked us to please not take it out on the interstate... which I really didn't understand but this car shines better off the big roads anyway...
We decided and we bought...
They wanted to "hold" the car for 2-3 days because they only had the one and were (are?) still waiting to take delivery of 2 more... but we nixed that... Do you really let a guaranteed sale walk just so you can park the car in the showroom for two days and let people rub all over it... Cuz I'll be damned if they were going to get it for a few days... We signed and drove it home.
There are reasons that this is the last dollars I will spend at that dealership... but they are unrelated to the test drive...
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