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I don't pay attention to the supercar world (perhaps later in life, I am a temporarily embarrassed billionaire after all). But that surprises me. A few years

I don't pay attention to the supercar world (perhaps later in life, I am a temporarily embarrassed billionaire after all). But that surprises me. A few years ago I was out on a bike ride with my kids, and we had a flat tire right in front of the local Mclaren dealership. I popped in and asked if they had a tire pump I could borrow. The mechanic came out and fixed the tire for me. While we waited, the salesman showed off the cars to my kids. I have a photo somewhere on my computer of one of them in the driver's seat acting like they are a race car driver. If the dealerships are so awful to customers, why are they so nice to random people off the street?

LgWoodenBadger 4y ago
Because that doesn’t cost them money. The problems with McLarens come from the factory, and I’m sure the factory says “fuck off” to the dealership so the dealership passes then”fuck off” to the customer.
joshu 4y ago
After I sold my first company, I went to a Ferrari dealer to look. They were shitty (and a number of friends have sworn off Ferrari forever because of them.) The McLaren people sent me off in a car by myself for a test drive. Guess who I went with?
- upupandup 4y ago
  If you go in dressed like shit they won't sell you a car. It's one of those things that annoys me but fortunately I started off with purchasing older Ferrari models and built rapport with the local dealership. I can see why a lot of people wouldn't deal with this BS Those "good" Ferrari are halo cars and they keep internal tally of their customers based on their purchase history. I started out from the older models and I hope they will reward me for offering liquidity to their used ferrari market (which is now starting to show signs of inflating). It's a disgusting strategy of creating artificial scarcity and gaslighting customers into thinking they are getting value (they are not). Limited edition, lightweight Ferraris hold their values very well against inflation although the more modern ones raises some concerns about production numbers (they drastically upped it but demand premium which market so far has been absorbing): 360CS, 430/16M, 458 Aperta vs 488 Pista Would I still be with Ferrari if I went thru what you and others went thru? Probably would never bother. Glad I never had to buy from a dealership (Vancouver is horrible), instead just trade on ferrarichat
  - joshu 4y ago
    it was silicon valley ferrari. dealers here largely know you can’t go by outfit. although the audi dealership was also shitty when i went to look at an r8 (thank god, they are awful) i like to drive my cars hard so used is better for me (find one that is not pristine) and i eventually switched to race car…
HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
> why are they so nice to random people off the street? Because they might become customers one day. ISTR that Porsche even had a commercial that said essentially this.

LgWoodenBadger 4y ago

Because that doesn’t cost them money. The problems with McLarens come from the factory, and I’m sure the factory says “fuck off” to the dealership so the dealership passes then”fuck off” to the customer.

joshu 4y ago

After I sold my first company, I went to a Ferrari dealer to look. They were shitty (and a number of friends have sworn off Ferrari forever because of them.) The McLaren people sent me off in a car by myself for a test drive. Guess who I went with?

upupandup 4y ago
If you go in dressed like shit they won't sell you a car. It's one of those things that annoys me but fortunately I started off with purchasing older Ferrari models and built rapport with the local dealership. I can see why a lot of people wouldn't deal with this BS Those "good" Ferrari are halo cars and they keep internal tally of their customers based on their purchase history. I started out from the older models and I hope they will reward me for offering liquidity to their used ferrari market (which is now starting to show signs of inflating). It's a disgusting strategy of creating artificial scarcity and gaslighting customers into thinking they are getting value (they are not). Limited edition, lightweight Ferraris hold their values very well against inflation although the more modern ones raises some concerns about production numbers (they drastically upped it but demand premium which market so far has been absorbing): 360CS, 430/16M, 458 Aperta vs 488 Pista Would I still be with Ferrari if I went thru what you and others went thru? Probably would never bother. Glad I never had to buy from a dealership (Vancouver is horrible), instead just trade on ferrarichat
- joshu 4y ago
  it was silicon valley ferrari. dealers here largely know you can’t go by outfit. although the audi dealership was also shitty when i went to look at an r8 (thank god, they are awful) i like to drive my cars hard so used is better for me (find one that is not pristine) and i eventually switched to race car…

HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago

> why are they so nice to random people off the street? Because they might become customers one day. ISTR that Porsche even had a commercial that said essentially this.