RKS
Seasoned Member
- I got my son(s) a new Civic Si to drive to school (no bus service)
- Younger son prefers to drive my G37 6MT sedan and gets rear-ended and car is totaled
- I mostly work from home and wife's commute is 6 miles so we share her Sequoia
- Really want a GTR but its more than I want to spend with 2 college tuitions coming up. I was looking at used GTRs until my brother bought one waiting for his GT3 allocation.
- Research manual sedans and narrow it to the 4BW and M3 and all reviews point to the 4BW as the best bet for my 1st domestic car.
- Go to small GM dealer (my son goes to school with the owner's son) to look at the 4BW, they have an A10, no timeline on allocation for 6M but we place an order in the beginning of December
- Go to the largest regional Cadillac dealer with multiple 6MT but they won't let me test-drive any nor offer me the $75 test-drive gift card. They are willing to place an order for $5000 payment. I felt disrespected and let the salesman and general manager know about the shitty experience.
- Scan national inventory daily to find properly spec'd car and find a close match in FL. Salesman keeps raising the OTD price, we decide not to purchase it and eventually car is sold to a fellow VNet member.
- Find my EXACT spec'd car "in transit" to the large regional dealer that I wasn't happy with.
- Ask my small dealer if he can do any kind of an dealer-trade
- He tells me they already did an "order-trade" and that is my car!! I didn't know they had order-trades.
- Car is still "in-transit" so I should have it in 3 days-3 months.