Ford dealers can kiss my ass
This past weekend, I was car shopping with a friend looking at different cars for him. Hes a huge Mustang fanatic so we went to a Ford dealer, the second one in the past few weeks, to look at an used 2003 Mustang Cobra. The first one we went to look at the new 05 Mustang GT, we were refused a test drive.
Minus a few rock chips, the exterior was in perfect condition. The interior suffers from shitty domestic car syndrome for which despite years of trying there has been no cure in sight. Cheap plastic that didn't fit right, just sitting down made the car rattle and the driver seat rocks, like a rocking chair, maybe its a special feature Ford added - rock while you drive. Then I find a service receipt, looks like the former owner had transmission problems and the clutch and flywheel were recently replaced. Good job stupid Ford dealer for leaving it on the passenger seat for all your potential buyers to see. But my friend didn't care, he wanted the car.
So the sleezeball, I mean salesman, comes out and introduces himself. My friend asks for a test drive and received this reply... "How old are you? Hows your credit? Sorry this is a high performance special super elite one-of-a-kind sports car and cannot be test driven without a credit check." What the fuck? Its used! If it was an used Ferrari I would understand completely, but not an used Mustang that was worth $20K. Give me a fucking break.
So I stepped in and argued with the sleezeball and the manager comes out. We started to argue with him too. He also refused, saying the Cobra is a high performance elite machine and no test drives are given. I had just come from test driving a Nissan 350Z Track across the street (more later), I've test driven new Acura's, Honda's, Nissan's, Infiniti's, BMW's, Audi's, etc all worth much more and some are better performers than this used Rustang. In the recent car shopping experiences with my friend, we've never had a problem getting a test drive, except at Ford.
No wonder the S&P reduced your credit rating to "junk" last week. Shit cars, shit dealers, and now shit credit.
Minus a few rock chips, the exterior was in perfect condition. The interior suffers from shitty domestic car syndrome for which despite years of trying there has been no cure in sight. Cheap plastic that didn't fit right, just sitting down made the car rattle and the driver seat rocks, like a rocking chair, maybe its a special feature Ford added - rock while you drive. Then I find a service receipt, looks like the former owner had transmission problems and the clutch and flywheel were recently replaced. Good job stupid Ford dealer for leaving it on the passenger seat for all your potential buyers to see. But my friend didn't care, he wanted the car.
So the sleezeball, I mean salesman, comes out and introduces himself. My friend asks for a test drive and received this reply... "How old are you? Hows your credit? Sorry this is a high performance special super elite one-of-a-kind sports car and cannot be test driven without a credit check." What the fuck? Its used! If it was an used Ferrari I would understand completely, but not an used Mustang that was worth $20K. Give me a fucking break.
So I stepped in and argued with the sleezeball and the manager comes out. We started to argue with him too. He also refused, saying the Cobra is a high performance elite machine and no test drives are given. I had just come from test driving a Nissan 350Z Track across the street (more later), I've test driven new Acura's, Honda's, Nissan's, Infiniti's, BMW's, Audi's, etc all worth much more and some are better performers than this used Rustang. In the recent car shopping experiences with my friend, we've never had a problem getting a test drive, except at Ford.
No wonder the S&P reduced your credit rating to "junk" last week. Shit cars, shit dealers, and now shit credit.
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written by Tommy at 5:20 AM |
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