More A4/Passat Opinions

[Lawrence C Leung]

Personally, I found it rather irritating (not the dealer's fault, it's my
"A" type coming thru). I guess it comes from the thought that I could
handle the details of any of the three lines. I guess not everyone can do
that. Oh well, it just makes cross shopping inconvienient. 

LL - NY

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:56:42 -0800 (PST) Ti Kan <ti at amb.org> writes:
>Lawrence C Leung writes:
>> I couldn't deal with just one salesman. The VW salestaff are for 
>some
>> reason, separate from the Audi staff and the Volvo staff. Like, the 
>owner
>> of this place doesn't expect people to cross shop?
>
>The idea is that each line of car have their own "brand specialists",
>so that they can be better trained to focus on just that line.  This
>makes them more knowledgeable and can better represent the brand 
>(well,
>at least in theory).  AOA is really pushing this concept lately.  In 
>fact,
>they are going one step further to convince as many dealers to become
>exclusive Audi dealers, or at least put Audis in its own showroom, 
>separate
>from other marques.
>
>-Ti
>01 S4 2.7 biturbo quattro
>84 5000S 2.1 turbo
>80 4000 2.0
>96 A4 2.8 quattro (sold but not forgotten)
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