Saturday, 22 March 2008

How to not sell cars

Last weekend my family and I went to the car fair here in Oldenburg. It's not the we want to buy a new car but I wanted to take a look at the new Jaguar XF and our little daughter Vanessa at the Mini. Another interesting car has been the Gumpert Apollo - an extreme machine where I never would have the chance to get out if I ever can climb in. As some of you may know I'm interested in buying a Land Rover Defender 110 in a few years when the kids are older. So I went to the booth of HIRO, our local Land Rover dealer. The first disappointment has been that all cars have been closed. Other exhibitors opened their cars - Jaguar, Porsche, Mercedes, Audi, BMW, all. But those have been closed. So we went away. Later, on our way back through the hall, I saw that now the Range Rover Sport has been opened. So I took a seat and tested some switches. Immediately a clerk opened the co-drivers door and pointed out that this makes no sense when the car is turned off. His intonation has been extreme patronizing. This is annoying! I know I'll never buy my Land Rover - or any other car - at this dealer.

1 Comments:

Lars said...

maybe you should take a look at a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Nano from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Motors
the next owner of Land Rover and Jaguar.