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Take this for what it's worth.. re: G80 LCI
I’m in for my annual service and was walking around the showroom and a CA approached me so I started talking with him. Speaking about M4 LCI he tells me that he saw in their system that M3 LCI will include an update to bring a manual transmission for G80 Competition, RWD only. I told him I don’t believe it for a second. FWIW, he didn’t really seem that knowledgeable, but I don’t know what he was looking at either.
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He's an idiot obviously.
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02-12-2024, 10:23 AM | #4 |
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Most of those guys know less than we do. I was told I’d be getting iDrive 8.5 any day now when I purchased my ‘24 M4C. I knew that was BS but didn’t waste my time calling him out. There will be no G80 XDrive Comp with a manual in 2025.
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02-12-2024, 10:26 AM | #5 |
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Doing so would mean certifying an entirely different powertrain. For one car. Jeez, these guys are thick. I mean, I'm not expecting sales people to be encyclopedically knowledgeable (although I have to believe if that was my job I would be) but sheesh, come on dude.
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Obviously hard to believe as someone would have sniffed this out already but it would be awesome to see.
I'm perfectly happy keeping my slow outdated manual G80 lol. But if they decided to make a special run for the last hurrah of a comp xdrive manual it'd be worth having my wife threaten divorce again over a car lol.
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This is very true. I could not list the amount times i've been "helped" by a salesman who knew much less then I did.
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the bullshit system?
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CAs just be saying random shit
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I would say that even at higher end stores, I have seen WOEFULLY dumb sales people. That's BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, JLR and Audi in my experience. And, conversely, I have seen some of the best sales people in my life in lower brands. Two people, one at a Honda dealer and one at a Hyundai dealer, in particular, stand out. So it isn't a vehicle price specific thing. |
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Reminds me of the time when I was taking delivery of my Jaguar F Type R last summer and the 'delivery specialist' was going over the car with me. I couldn't locate right away if the car had heated seats and asked him and he said oh they don't come with heated seats.
Sure enough, looking closely the temperature knob could be clicked down for BOTH heated and cooled seats in fact. Haha. To be fair, I did buy it from Porsche so I guess Porsche guy not knowing about Jaguar is not that bad...but then don't call yourself a 'delivery specialist' and try to 'go over the features of the car with me.' lol |
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