RX-8 Is Not A High-Performance Car?
12-01-2004, 06:03 PM
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RX-8 Is Not A High-Performance Car?
... according to the people at the local Nissan dealer. 
I went to look at the 2005 Nissan 350Z because I was curious about the new yellow color. I pull up in my titanium gray 8 and 3 salespersons immediately look at it. One lady offers me help, so I gladly except. She asks me what my car is and tells me it looks like a Viper. :D Anyway, I asked how old you have to be to test drive. I told her I was 16 and she was going to take me out in it since I am not old enought to drive it myself, but this other RUDE salesman yells at her and says she can't do that.
He then goes on to tell me that it is illegal for anyone in the United States to drive(or testdrive) a high-performance vehicle without being over the age of 25. Then he tells me that I need my parent to come in, but I still can't drive it. The lady and I both looked at him and got mad. He then told me to call the DMV. I told him I had an RX-8 and then he told me it was not a high-performance vehicle. He asked me how many liters it was and I told him it was 1.3. He then went on to tell me that 1.3 wasn't that much.
I told him it was a rotary engine and he flat out ignored me and went on to say that the Z had 3 liters and 287HP or something like that. I was so mad at him, but the other lady said not to worry about him and I spoke to the manager about it before I left. Interesting huh?
I went to look at the 2005 Nissan 350Z because I was curious about the new yellow color. I pull up in my titanium gray 8 and 3 salespersons immediately look at it. One lady offers me help, so I gladly except. She asks me what my car is and tells me it looks like a Viper. :D Anyway, I asked how old you have to be to test drive. I told her I was 16 and she was going to take me out in it since I am not old enought to drive it myself, but this other RUDE salesman yells at her and says she can't do that.He then goes on to tell me that it is illegal for anyone in the United States to drive(or testdrive) a high-performance vehicle without being over the age of 25. Then he tells me that I need my parent to come in, but I still can't drive it. The lady and I both looked at him and got mad. He then told me to call the DMV. I told him I had an RX-8 and then he told me it was not a high-performance vehicle. He asked me how many liters it was and I told him it was 1.3. He then went on to tell me that 1.3 wasn't that much.
I told him it was a rotary engine and he flat out ignored me and went on to say that the Z had 3 liters and 287HP or something like that. I was so mad at him, but the other lady said not to worry about him and I spoke to the manager about it before I left. Interesting huh?
12-01-2004, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Jaisin
... according to the people at the local Nissan dealer. I went to look at the 2005 Nissan 350Z because I was curious about the new yellow color. I pull up in my titanium gray 8 and 3 salespersons immediately look at it. One lady offers me help, so I gladly except. She asks me what my car is and tells me it looks like a Viper. :D Anyway, I asked how old you have to be to test drive. I told her I was 16 and she was going to take me out in it since I am not old enought to drive it myself, but this other RUDE salesman yells at her and says she can't do that.
He then goes on to tell me that it is illegal for anyone in the United States to drive(or testdrive) a high-performance vehicle without being over the age of 25. Then he tells me that I need my parent to come in, but I still can't drive it. The lady and I both looked at him and got mad. He then told me to call the DMV. I told him I had an RX-8 and then he told me it was not a high-performance vehicle. He asked me how many liters it was and I told him it was 1.3. He then went on to tell me that 1.3 wasn't that much.
I told him it was a rotary engine and he flat out ignored me and went on to say that the Z had 3 liters and 287HP or something like that. I was so mad at him, but the other lady said not to worry about him and I spoke to the manager about it before I left. Interesting huh?
I went to look at the 2005 Nissan 350Z because I was curious about the new yellow color. I pull up in my titanium gray 8 and 3 salespersons immediately look at it. One lady offers me help, so I gladly except. She asks me what my car is and tells me it looks like a Viper. :D Anyway, I asked how old you have to be to test drive. I told her I was 16 and she was going to take me out in it since I am not old enought to drive it myself, but this other RUDE salesman yells at her and says she can't do that.He then goes on to tell me that it is illegal for anyone in the United States to drive(or testdrive) a high-performance vehicle without being over the age of 25. Then he tells me that I need my parent to come in, but I still can't drive it. The lady and I both looked at him and got mad. He then told me to call the DMV. I told him I had an RX-8 and then he told me it was not a high-performance vehicle. He asked me how many liters it was and I told him it was 1.3. He then went on to tell me that 1.3 wasn't that much.
I told him it was a rotary engine and he flat out ignored me and went on to say that the Z had 3 liters and 287HP or something like that. I was so mad at him, but the other lady said not to worry about him and I spoke to the manager about it before I left. Interesting huh?
12-01-2004, 06:23 PM
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He's a lousy salesman. Sounds like he just doesn't bother to study other car makes/models to compare to the ones at his work. You'd think he would since it would probably help him sound smarter and hence sell more cars. I agree with G8rboy, what a putz!
12-01-2004, 06:23 PM
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350Z has 3 liters and illegal for anyone under the age of 25 to test drive a "high performance vehicle"? WTF is that guy smoking? He doesn't even know about the cars he's selling.
12-01-2004, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by NomisR
350Z has 3 liters and illegal for anyone under the age of 25 to test drive a "high performance vehicle"? WTF is that guy smoking? He doesn't even know about the cars he's selling.
12-01-2004, 06:32 PM
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Jason,
You will learn soon enough that many, not all but many, car salespeople know virtually nothing about their own products and even less about their competition. You'll probably also discover that salespeople who run down the competition do so because they have little positive to say about their own product.
You will learn soon enough that many, not all but many, car salespeople know virtually nothing about their own products and even less about their competition. You'll probably also discover that salespeople who run down the competition do so because they have little positive to say about their own product.
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if i were u... i'll just BS stuff right there about the RX8 to shut him up good and make him look stupid in front of everyone.... or if i WERE actually there and he was dissing my car like that i'll just knock him right there...
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And here I thought the Nissan has a 3.5 liter VQ35 series engine (not 3 liters like he is telling you). You should tell the salesperson to learn about his car first before he pulls more BS out of his butt.
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?! tell him to drive his stupid 350z to challenge me... I would teach him a lesson of what is high-performance car . !!!!!!!!!! 350z just stupid ...... big engine .. heavy... na.. 8 is way better than that crap...!!! if called that hight performance?! rx-8 could call super performance !!!