Seattle206
Senior Member
You're wrong. Comparing an SR5 to a TRD Pro like that is like saying a 328i drives like an M3. They share the same chassis but two totally different animals.
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2015 TRD Pro no test drive
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You're wrong. Comparing an SR5 to a TRD Pro like that is like saying a 328i drives like an M3. They share the same chassis but two totally different animals.
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Greenamphibious
Banned
You're wrong. Comparing an SR5 to a TRD Pro like that is like saying a 328i drives like an M3. They share the same chassis but two totally different animals.
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Lol, if it had a TRD intake that would be true lol
Saker
Senior Member
I purchased my SR5 from my local dealership. I called my salesman and told him when a 4Runner TRD Pro came in, I wanted to test drive it.
The Tech that works on my truck sent me a pic of one he was servicing so I called my salesman and informed him they had one.
I set up a test drive for the following day, as I was getting my SR5 serviced. He knew I wasn't going to buy it, but said, "I'll see you first thing in the morning".
Took a test drive, returned it....end of story.
No reason for salesman not to let someone test drive a vehicle, they just lost a potential sale by refusing the OP a test drive....
Now, that's just stupid on the salesman's part
The Tech that works on my truck sent me a pic of one he was servicing so I called my salesman and informed him they had one.
I set up a test drive for the following day, as I was getting my SR5 serviced. He knew I wasn't going to buy it, but said, "I'll see you first thing in the morning".
Took a test drive, returned it....end of story.
No reason for salesman not to let someone test drive a vehicle, they just lost a potential sale by refusing the OP a test drive....
Now, that's just stupid on the salesman's part
+1 for Jim Coleman. JC Honda in Ellicott City was good to my old man when he bought his Ridgeline back in 2011. After buying it off him a couple years ago, I still take it there for service. They're good folks.
I had the same experience with Jeep, I walked in and asked to see the vehicles I was interested in, and the salesman started talking to me about loans and not having anything in my price range. When told him that I had cash to buy whatever I wanted there, then he brought up interest rates and credit scores.
When the boss made me go back to look at what she wanted he started acting like they where made of gold and was not even moving 100 less then the sticker price, stating "well it's a premium very popular vehicle". The next day I drove my new 4 runner there for some accessories.
When the boss made me go back to look at what she wanted he started acting like they where made of gold and was not even moving 100 less then the sticker price, stating "well it's a premium very popular vehicle". The next day I drove my new 4 runner there for some accessories.
marshal
New member
No way!! A 99.9% identical vehicle drives the same as another one??? Mind blown.
marshal
New member
I had a similar experience when I bought my wrangler. Pulled out the supplier pricing paperwork and my military ID, paid cash, and the dealer ended up only making $11 on me because I came out at around 6% below invoice. Talk about heated.
david05111
New member
A few years back, a buddy of mine and I were hanging out in Tampa for the day and decided to kill some time looking at cars. He had a brand new E63 AMG.
We decided it might be funny to stop by at Fiat and have a look at the new Abarth 500. They had been out for 2-3 months at that point and we had seen them on Top Gear or something.
We drove in and walked inside. There were like 8 500s on the floor, and one was an Abarth. They had like 20 more outside, and some of them were Abarths. The one on the floor had a price of like $23000.
A salesman who had seen us drive in came over to talk with us and we got an education on the car and had a nice chat. And then one of us (I can't remember which) asked if we could drive one. "Oh no, we don't let people drive these. They're high performance vehicles." Both of us turned to each other in total astonishment, asked if he was serious, and just completely lost it. He was totally serious. We offered to give him a $10k deposit; still wouldn't budge. We rolled in in an AMG with a sticker price north of $100k with over 500HP and were told that the little Fiat with like 160HP was too "high performance".
Still laughing, we walked over to another part of the dealership which dealt with higher-end cars. On the showroom floor was a V10 Viper in bright red. The salesman introduced himself and then asked why we were laughing. We told him the story and he had a chuckle. Now mind you, these are the same buildings and practically the same showroom. The salesman walked over to his desk, grabbed the viper keys, pulled it out of the showroom, asked for our licenses and gave us the keys and told us to "have fun". So we could drive the Viper, but not the Abarth Fiat.
It still makes me laugh to this day.
More relevant to this particular forum, a few weeks back when I started seriously looking at 4runners to purchase a TRDP, I walked into a dealer close to me which had one in Army Green. It was the only dealer anywhere near here with a TRDP, let alone in the AG which is what I wanted.
I drove in and the truck was parked right out front. A salesman walked up and asked what brought me in and I told him I wanted to look at the AG TRDP parked out front. First words out of this mouth: "Ok cool, should I get the keys so you can drive it?" Now I didn't want to drive it; I was only there to see the color and what changes had been made to the 2020. But keep in mind that there wasn't another of these anywhere near me and they still offered to let me drive it.
About a week later, I went back in to have another look and talk numbers. As it turns out, the truck was being sold at that minute so I couldn't look at it. But the salesman was very nice and said he could get me a green one by trading away the black one they had and volunteered to let me drive the black one before I made a decision. This time I did drive it; when I got in, it had like 13 miles on it and I put 5 on it.
Well guess what? That dealer got a sale. They got a green one in for me on Thursday last week and I went back in on Saturday. It had 4 miles on it and I drove it 5 miles. It now sits in my driveway.
I get it; some dealers don't want to let people put miles on their more desirable cars. But in the end, they're just cars and one way or another they're going to get sold. If they make the process more difficult, they're just going to drive potential buyers away for good.
We decided it might be funny to stop by at Fiat and have a look at the new Abarth 500. They had been out for 2-3 months at that point and we had seen them on Top Gear or something.
We drove in and walked inside. There were like 8 500s on the floor, and one was an Abarth. They had like 20 more outside, and some of them were Abarths. The one on the floor had a price of like $23000.
A salesman who had seen us drive in came over to talk with us and we got an education on the car and had a nice chat. And then one of us (I can't remember which) asked if we could drive one. "Oh no, we don't let people drive these. They're high performance vehicles." Both of us turned to each other in total astonishment, asked if he was serious, and just completely lost it. He was totally serious. We offered to give him a $10k deposit; still wouldn't budge. We rolled in in an AMG with a sticker price north of $100k with over 500HP and were told that the little Fiat with like 160HP was too "high performance".
Still laughing, we walked over to another part of the dealership which dealt with higher-end cars. On the showroom floor was a V10 Viper in bright red. The salesman introduced himself and then asked why we were laughing. We told him the story and he had a chuckle. Now mind you, these are the same buildings and practically the same showroom. The salesman walked over to his desk, grabbed the viper keys, pulled it out of the showroom, asked for our licenses and gave us the keys and told us to "have fun". So we could drive the Viper, but not the Abarth Fiat.
It still makes me laugh to this day.
More relevant to this particular forum, a few weeks back when I started seriously looking at 4runners to purchase a TRDP, I walked into a dealer close to me which had one in Army Green. It was the only dealer anywhere near here with a TRDP, let alone in the AG which is what I wanted.
I drove in and the truck was parked right out front. A salesman walked up and asked what brought me in and I told him I wanted to look at the AG TRDP parked out front. First words out of this mouth: "Ok cool, should I get the keys so you can drive it?" Now I didn't want to drive it; I was only there to see the color and what changes had been made to the 2020. But keep in mind that there wasn't another of these anywhere near me and they still offered to let me drive it.
About a week later, I went back in to have another look and talk numbers. As it turns out, the truck was being sold at that minute so I couldn't look at it. But the salesman was very nice and said he could get me a green one by trading away the black one they had and volunteered to let me drive the black one before I made a decision. This time I did drive it; when I got in, it had like 13 miles on it and I put 5 on it.
Well guess what? That dealer got a sale. They got a green one in for me on Thursday last week and I went back in on Saturday. It had 4 miles on it and I drove it 5 miles. It now sits in my driveway.
I get it; some dealers don't want to let people put miles on their more desirable cars. But in the end, they're just cars and one way or another they're going to get sold. If they make the process more difficult, they're just going to drive potential buyers away for good.
