My guess is that punk-a** twenty-something didn't like what he saw when I rolled up and decided to flex his power like some kind of mall cop and deny me.

the excuse they gave me is "we dont let anyone test drive our pride and joy" i laughed at him and i said "really? a 05 SRT-10 Ram with 60,000km on it is your pride and joy of the dealership? the truck is a fine truck, but not that fine"

But i know for a fact its all how you dress and what you drive. He didnt see the Z i was driving and i was dressed in casual clothes.

Same thing happend to my boss at my old work. The owner of the company owned a 94 Viper. The Co-Owner owned a KIA and wanted to go test drive a porche, he got some info about the car he wanted to drive but the dealership said no you cant test drive it. So he called the owner up and got the Viper for the day, went back to the dealership and said "heres my other car that i dont normally drive" dealership then said "ok lets go for a rip in the car you want" my boss said "nah, i changed my mind, im going to go by a 09 Viper ACR"

A lot of dealers have a no-test-drive policy on cars like the Z now. They're often able to sell them without offering rides, and it's not worth the risk.

When I bought my Z in 2009, they saw my hospital ID and let me test drive the car once with the salesman and then again with just my wife. The sales guy was freaking out saying "whoa whoa whoa" when I got on the throttle a bit. No balls. My wife was just rolling her eyes. Likes to bust balls.

I had on a smart grey sport jacket and Gucci shoes... and I rolled up in a Mercedes.

I have a no-spending-$40,000-with-businesses-that-don't-treat-me-the-way-I-want-to-be-treated policy.
With my specific wants, I was willing to order a car and pay a premium if necessary. Their loss.
Better yet, I ran into the sales manager from that dealership at the local Sons of Italy Lodge. He was wearing a Nissan logo sweater and I asked what he did for Nissan. After finding out his position, I shared my story with him. He told me that sales person was no longer there and asked me if I'd like to come in and take that test drive. I told him he was way too late and another dealership got the sale.
He bought me a drink and offered me a test drive in the GT-R they have in the showroom.
I thanked him for the offer, but had to decline on principle. I don't go to dealerships and test drive cars just for joy rides. That kind of thing ruins it for those who are serious and actually want to buy a car.

Wow, I've always had the opposite experience. All the salesman always try to force me into a test drive even if I don't want to go on one. I'm 21, but I usually have one of my parents with me so they're cool with it.

The salesman that let me take the 370Z on the test drive let me do what I wanted and showed me a curvy road to have fun on.

Coming from a stage 2 05 STi the 370Z felt a lot slower in a straight line, but the brakes and handling impressed me.

I had never been in a 370Z or even seen one, except for pictures on the internet. I did my research and was pretty sure I wanted one. Got my financing preapproved, wife and I flew 400 miles to drive the car and most likely purchase it. It was a cold day, about 35 degrees. Wife goes inside the dealership while I look over the car. I ask the salesman to take it for a test drive. He gets the keys and starts to get in the passenger seat when I ask if my wife can go along. He gets a funny look on his face but agrees.
Wife and I are gone about 20 minutes when my cell phone rings. It is the salesman asking when I am coming back. I'm thinking to myself, I just flew 400 miles to buy a car from you, you have talked with my bank and we have been working on this for a week, I am not some young kid out for a joy ride.
So I tell the guy I am 3 blocks away and he can relax.
While I am doing the paperwork he asks if I brought the dealer plate back in with me. No I didn't. Dumb *** put it on the trunk deck and it slide off and gets lost. He then makes the comment he didn't think I would beat the car so soon. I was getting a good price on the car or I would have left right then and told them they could keep the car.
I have to say I really enjoy this car, but the salesman did little to enhance the enjoyment of the purchase.

don't really remember the test drive of this one, but when I bought my C6, my neighbor bought one a month later and told me the salesman said I scared him on the test drive. We found some very fun curvy roads nearby.

Just after I left the dealership lot I had the A$$ hanging out, and the sales guy screaming like a little girl...

Was a great test ride...