Why I won't let any dealers drive my car when I am not there.

[Goofball]

These guys were up to no good and even say they need to let it cool off after getting on it. That could be a customers car that IS sold? They could of at least aske the chick walking down the road if she needed a ride like true gentlemen?

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[Pnasty]

These guys were up to no good and even say they need to let it cool off after getting on it. That could be a customers car that IS sold? They could of at least aske the chick walking down the road if she needed a ride like true gentlemen?

I'd be willing to bet the car is already sold just not picked up yet.

 

[Blk2015GT]

Part of the PDI is to drive the car and check for proper alignment, squeaks and rattles, unusual noises, etc. Those guys didn't seem to mistreat the car at all, unless I misse something. I actually don't see the big deal. Also, I have a yellow with black stripes track pack that just arrived at the dealer. That could be my car! I'll have to pay attention to the area when I go pick it up and see if any of those streets look familiar.

Never mind. I see a sign for Flagstaff at the beginning, so I'm guessing the dealer is in Arizona. Not my car.

-T

I gotta agree here. This isn't a GT its a 350, it revs high stepping on the gas. That's what the engine was built to do.

I didn't hear it hit redline and it wasn't an ultra hard pull.

I didn't see at any point the car was really being abused. Maybe a hair beyond how it should've been driven, but I mean it wasnt tearing around corners fill redline sliding out the back end here.

Ya'll are full of sh*t if someone handed you keys to another FPC car like a Ferrari to go drive a few miles and you didn't give it a lil gas too.

edit: Also people buy new expecting this to have never happened to the car... If they wanted some abused mustang they would buy used

That's unrealistic consumers. Many brand cars go through road testing; go watch those How It's Made Dream Cars on Velocity. They race the McLarens and many other much more expensive cars on a track before it gets delivered to the customer.

Just because someone drove it a few miles doesn't make it tainted. There are MANY worse examples of dealers abusing cars than this relatively uneventful drive.

 

[UOP Shadow]

Dealership owns the car not the salesman that can't afford the damage he might be doing, let alone the whole car. Its just irritating because they could cause potential future failures, which ford will refuse to fix because someone but a CAI on the car.

edit: Also people buy new expecting this to have never happened to the car... If they wanted some abused mustang they would buy used

Seriously, if you buy a GT350 with more than 10 miles on it and think nothing like this could happen, you're crazy!

 

[Rogue]

My dealer and I did the PDI together - Master tech drove and I rode along. Didn't shift over 3k - did various speeds, slightly bumpy roads and just listened for anything - after we confirmed car was running up to spec we headed back to the dealer.

Handing the keys to someone and expecting them not to drive a little harder when the customer is not around is tough - it would be like handing them Pamela Anderson back in the 90's and saying can't look. I know i'd be tempted to hear that exhaust - best to just cancel out all temptation and ride along.

 

[Rogue]

Seriously, if you buy a GT350 with more than 10 miles on it and think nothing like this could happen, you're crazy!

Mine arrived off the truck with 27 miles in transport mode from the factory...

 

[chief135smitty]

The only difference between today and the 80 or so years prior to this event is the fact that now people have smart phones and feel they need to record it. I worked at a major auto mall when I was in my 20's and this is nothing. Cars have been subject to this so called "abuse" since the first Model A's rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. If youtube was available in 1927 you would have watched 2 salesman pass a horse at 4 miles an hour while they were yelling to each other like the 2 fools in Ferris Buellers Day Off.

 

[Rick R]

If the car is not sold yet, isn't it the dealers property?
They can do whatever they want with it

WTF, it's the dealership's car, they can do what they want!

Absolutely, as long as whoever comes in to buy that car, they disclose to him that some jackass has been driving the car like that.

Ya'll are full of sh*t if someone handed you keys to another FPC car like a Ferrari to go drive a few miles and you didn't give it a lil gas too.

F**k no, I wouldn't give it "a lil gas", if the car belonged to someone else who I know wouldn't want me to do any such thing. I respect other people's property.

 

[Spa2k]

Or maybe you just work with a dealer where the people who work there respect the products and their customers. :cheers:

 

[enzo101]

F**k no, I wouldn't give it "a lil gas", if the car belonged to someone else who I know wouldn't want me to do any such thing. I respect other people's property.

Thank you!!! I thought I was the only one. I've been given several opportunities to drive expensive vehicles (Nissan GTR, Audi R8 V10, Classic Recreations Eleanor) and I never gave it any gas. I was grateful to even touch those cars but would never gas another individual or dealers car.

 

[ronda]

WTF, it's the dealership's car, they can do what they want!

I put down a substantial down payment when I ordered my car as well as most of us on this forum. These are our cars (or the banks cars!) not the yahoo "test driving" the car.

 

[50 Deep]

Seems like people get a little worked up over these videos. I just don't think it's that serious.

As if none of you would have married your wives because someone took her to redline before you did. It's a car. Get over it and enjoy the MACHINE for what it is. Salesman putting it to a new performance vehicle on the lot has happened for many many moons and will continue for many more.

 

[Rick R]

As if none of you would have married your wives because someone took her to redline before you did.

Huh?

 

[DrumReaper]

As if none of you would have married your wives because someone took her to redline before you did. It's a car. Get over it and enjoy the MACHINE for what it is. Salesman putting it to a new performance vehicle on the lot has happened for many many moons and will continue for many more.

Wow...

Took my wife to redline... That somehow justifies two idiots manhandling someone else's property. I see it as akin to rape or stealing this car's virginity.

Dumbest statement of the year... It's early on in the year so you got time. Someone will come by and take that crown from you. Don't worry.

 

[ihc95]

It's a shame the dealerships even let people like this behind the wheel. I remember years ago when I used to work at a Toyota dealership they told me whenever they had a Supra at on the lot, the ONLY people who had access to the keys were the dealership owner and the GM. They simply couldn't trust anyone else with the keys. I believe this is what they do at many Nissan dealers with GTRs. And this is how is should be with the Shelbys.

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