I'd like to say that not all salesmen are like that! Rich Manas at Kearny Mesa Scion here in San Diego was a pleasure to deal with. A real gear-head with a love for cars and a visible drive to put you in the car YOU want, not something to meet his sales quotas. I used to own a tC RS 1.0 and was talking with him off and on over the past year and a half about the FR-S. I was even on the waiting list before launch to get a red 6MT, but had to defer the phone call as I had just bought a condo last year. All the while, he never pushed anything on me, never tried to talk me into anything, and only gave me my options and told me what was available.
In terms of actually GETTING the car, I had been in an
accident a little under 2 months ago which accelerated my buying process. I ran some other options before concluding that getting anything BUT the FR-S (like a midrange econobox or hatch) would just make me regret not getting the FR-S. He said it would be 4-6 weeks for order of a new delivery (Firestorm 6MTs are apparently extremely hard to get in socal). But he worked some magic and got me one in 2 weeks by doing a dealer allocated trade with another Firestorm coming in off the boat from Japan that hadn't been pre-sold. Ironically, a lady who had put a deposit down a couple weeks before me had still not gotten her special order, since hers was a specific order instead of picking through the options of unsold cars. He even had options deleted off the car (bespoke and I think one or two other small things) to keep my price down like I had asked, and it came in bare bones. He definitely worked hard to get me my car and we would chat and share stories each time I was in. He's a big F1 fan too, so that was always fun to talk about, especially with the crazy 2012 season.
I used to work at a dealer many many years ago, and yeah, a lot of salesmen are slimeballs who think nothing of you except taking your money. Some are not though. Some seem to actually care about finding you the right thing, even if it's not their product or it costs less. I've been going to Kearny Mesa Scion for 8 years now and will keep going there for some time.