It’s quite a random one for me and it’s something I’ve experienced well before joining the scheme..
Some sales people just don’t want to sell you a car it seems… unless you clueless and they can sell you anything which for me ain’t the case, i know what i want and what i don’t.
Since i’ve been on the scheme I’ve only had a few issues and actually it’s only put me off them as brands, so they off my list forever.. I won’t ever be driving a ford.. unless it’s a mustang.. hahaha, then i might be tempted.
Why because they expected me to drive 40 miles to another dealer to test drive a certain model as they had none at all. I was like yeah right.. and walked out the door..
look i get it they don’t make so much in commission from mb, i get that and they usually have a specialist sales person, whom you need to see for a test drive and to do the paperwork etc.. Others just don’t do it. but it’s the attitude sometimes. Costs nothing to be nice.. Maybe they can tell, i don’t really want their cars, that i’m just trying to justify them as a contender as the specs meet my needs.. So went to the dealers to have a look and decide if it was and needed to drive it.. with mercedes and bmw, they not local to me which after all is an issue with services etc and life.. local is better but family had free tickets for a movie in chesterfield so while they was doing that i went and looked at cars.. waste of time.. Totally apart from toyota they had a 2.ol hybrid hatchback and the battery is in the boot so is tiny.. so it was out.. my local toyota didn’t even know that.. but i did.. but i needed to see it to decide..
This time i had no problems at all apart from covid / my new car is sitting at dealers?? / It was the only one i test drove this time and decided it was the one..
I looked at a few others but on looking decided they was just not right for me this time.. so was no need to drive them.. 3 years before that, i test drove 2 cars and 3 years before that 2 cars and before that only 2 cars again.. as they was what i got the shortlist down to, so is there loss imo.. I don’t wanna waste my time either.
It was the drive that finally decided it on all cars in 2017 a golf won over a clio, 2014 a c4 grand piccaso over the vauxhall zafira and a QQ over a c3 back in 2011, The c3 was the worst drive straight after the QQ the moment i drove out i wanted to drive back, but that would of been rude.