I want to buy a plane by year-end but they're not making it easy.

Having driven many of them, I understand why they would not want you to
drive it.

The BMW has a much better driving experience.


"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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markjen wrote:


The situation isn't exactly the same, but not many car dealers give
demos to
customers who don't yet have their driver's license.

For another reason. Up until recently here the main reason they wanted
to
see your drivers license is so they could grab the SSN off it so they
could
go run a quick credit check on you.

Most states (??) don't use the SSN on the drivers license (optional for
some
states).

My wife was surprised they let me go drive a $45,000 vehicle without even
the salesman along (and I pointed out that they had already determined
that
I was good for it). We even drove the thing off the lot with temporary
tags and a "promise" to come back and give them a check for the down
payment.

What did you drive into the dealership in? Beater or newer comparable
model.

On the other hand, Mercedes-Benz dealers won't give any test
drives...period. I showed up to look at an E500 in my wife's one year old
Infiniti Q-45 and they still wanted me to buy it without driving it.
--
Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

Dude wrote:
Having driven many of them, I understand why they would not want you to
drive it.

Mercedes had a special event last summer when they invited a whole slew
of people out to the parking lot of the local pro sports team and drove
a few hot autocross laps with a professional driver (mind you they wouldn't
let us do that ourselves), they also let us test drive a few models in the
lot (at lower speeds) and test a car with AWD (or was it antilock) on a little
soapy skid pad.

All it did is convince me I didn't want a Mercedes. Even the so called
"sports" models had steering and handling that you'd expect from a limosine.

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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Dude wrote:
Having driven many of them, I understand why they would not want you to
drive it.

Mercedes had a special event last summer when they invited a whole slew
of people out to the parking lot of the local pro sports team and drove
a few hot autocross laps with a professional driver (mind you they
wouldn't
let us do that ourselves), they also let us test drive a few models in the
lot (at lower speeds) and test a car with AWD (or was it antilock) on a
little
soapy skid pad.

All it did is convince me I didn't want a Mercedes. Even the so called
"sports" models had steering and handling that you'd expect from a
limosine.




Yep, my impression exactly. I haven't tried that G model, but I bet it has
wonderful SUV handling. All their cars do.

Dude wrote:




Yep, my impression exactly. I haven't tried that G model, but I bet it has
wonderful SUV handling. All their cars do.



My SUV is more responsive. I swear they put shock absorbers on
the steering linkages.