So i brought my car in for service this morning, just regular maitence nothing wrong and i had some time to kill so i walked over to their lot of cars and started looking around at a mazda 3 (for the girlfriend not me) a mazda dealer walks out and greets me and i notice hes the sales mgr and we start talking. He gives me his whole sales pitch and tells me he has been selling mazdas for 5 years now and how knowledgeable he is about them. I mention to him i was having my 8 serviced and just looking around at the 3's. He then looks at me and askes me what kind of engine do i have in my 8 a 4cy or v6. I look at him and then walked away to wait for my car never giving him a answer....I know we all say we know more about our cars then the dealers and we do...But jesus ******* christ, all i have to say was that i was glad i didnt buy my car from that dealer.

 

Just hope he has nothing to do with the service part of that dealership

 

Oh, the mental image is pure comedy. It is really sad how little these jokers know abou tthe vehicles they sell. Especially the single most unique model on the lot, to not be familiar with that one bit of trivia, it is unforgivable, seriously.

 

I had one ask me if I had purchased the 1st gen or 2nd gen RX8. Ummmm....the thing has only been out for barely four or five years, there is only one generation so far.

 

Wow........that really sucks.........I would of just corrected and said its a rotary engine and see if he knows what that is or i would of asked him for a RX-8 Brochure and show him the pics and specs for rotary engine? Maybe i have more patience but thats an embarassment honestly for a sales manager who been sellin mazdas for 5 years and then at the end of the convo, asks whether you have a 4 or 6 cyl in ur RX-8.........I would expect that from a newbie sales guy not a sales manager.

 

lmao

For some reason that is ludicrously funny

Maybe he's just a joker and wanted to **** you off on purpose....nah.

 

How about the salesman who said RX-8's take a while to get going because the rotors have to spin up? Didn't know we had any turbine powered 8's.

 

The single most unique model IN THE UNITED STATES. ( production cars only )

 

hahaha the same thing happened to me except one of the salesmen said "the rotary engine is a beast in it's own, powered by 4 cylinders" I laughed and wished he just stopped after "beast in it's own".

 

smh at this

 

Maybe you should have a nice talk with the General Manager of the dealership and inform him what an *** he has for a Sales Manager.

 

So, which one do you have?

 

It's a trick question! We all know that it's not possible to have a 4 or 6 cylinder engine. We have a V8 and that's where the name of the car came from. DUH! Everyone knows that!!

 

It's an X8! Four banks of two cylinders. Crank has two throws.

Ken

 

I'm feeling a lot of hate for my dealer lately...

 

just like a rotary engine is not a reciprocating engine, a Mazda sales rep is not a Mazda dealer ...

that typical sales rep may have been pitching telephone solicitations for the Police Benevolent Society the week before ...

 

On my vehicle registration, it says it's a 4 cylinder car...

Which dealer do you go to DarkBrew?

 

maybe he meant 4sp AT vs 6sp MT

:shrug:

 

maybe he was just testing to see whether he could pull a fast one on you... not!

 

Burlington

edit: Hey, 1800 posts!

 

The sales guy that sold the car to me gave me the rotary speech as we were talking.... (check oil every other fill up, don't shut it off cold, if you turn it off, rev to 3k rpm for about 6 to 10 sec then turn off, redline often to keep carbon away), etc...
Glad that there are some that are the exception.

 

so you almost killed a mazda dealer today? lol

 

No you don't.

The dealer I went to seemed to know his shnit but all I was looking for was the one who'd screw me the least.

 

You didn't know that 5 years in sales lingo is 5 minutes.

 

shoulda answered him. it's obviously a 6.