Lensman

There I was minding my own business at work today and a colleague ('Wheels' Mackenzie) happened to mention that as he was a Mazda 323 owner his Letchworth dealer had written offering him a test drive in the... erm... RX-8. 'Wheels' had assumed I'd test driven one so didn't think this remarkable. Not only was it an RX-8 but a Titanium RX-8 with leather and Nav system, ie: MY car! Once I'd picked myself off the floor and stopped gibbering he explained that he liked it, it was '**** off a shovel' and 'very nice'. Not for him though because it couldn't accomodate his bike.

Good grief!

oilman

OOPS! BOOBED AGAIN

Cheers
Oilman

RobDickinson

Thats nice.

Had my salesguy denying all knowledge off demo/test drive cars even though Titanium gray had chated to them and they hasd discused it at their team meetings lol.

Guess they aint forking out for a tester.

Lensman

I should point out that Letchworth is not my dealer (Priory Cambridge is mine) and that the cars were only there for two days. Apparently the dealer managed to convince a Mazda rep to lend him the car for the weekend when he was at the Wales launch (according to my colleague). Didn't understand your comment Oilman.

ploszek

Hmmm - when I rang Mazda UK about test drives, I was told that test drives were not available for customers - only press. So I guess that those of you who have had them are damn lucky - but you can't blame the dealers from letting customers hava a go despite orders!