Originally Posted by ylwjacket

As a matter of fact, I did. In fact, the parallels were pretty similar. I wanted an M5, but they didn't have any yet, and weren't going to get one before my lease expired on the X5.

So, I wanted to test drive a 545, and a 645, then make a decision. They told me they didn't let people test drive 645's - they were too expensive to use as demo cars. The manager (or at least someone who claimed to be the manager), agreed. They also only were going to let me drive a 525 or 530 (whichever they made then, I don't remember), because they only had a few 545's, and they didn't want to put miles on them. I told them I had just bought an Escalade, and if they were going to be jerks, I'd go take serious look at the CTS-V (first gen). They told me nobody cross-shopped their cars with Cadillacs, so that wasn't going to pursuade them to let me take a test drive.

So, off I went, and bought the V.

Again, I drove in there, saying my X5 lease is up in 45 days, and I need a new car. Somehow, they evidently didn't think I qualified, even though I was drove there in one of their cars.

As for CTS-V's, at this moment in time, I have no doubt that some dealers are being jerks about them. The new factor is still there, and I'm sure dealers get all sorts of crackpots wanting to take a 560hp car for a spin.

If I were you, and I really wanted to drive it, I'd probably go in there.

However - this hardly a GM problem. It is one dealer being arrogant, because he probably misjudged the allure of his offering, and your desire to buy it.

So, since he's stupid, he lost a sale of a $65k car.