2015 Nissan Z may be lighter, leaner

Lug

Salesmen need to ba able to answer serious questions about price, availability, financing, etc. The buyer should know all the technically important answers before he or she even goes to look at a car. Asking a saleman about technical aspects of a car is akin to asking the the accountant of HR person at your office to help with your latest computer problem.

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shadoquad

What about questions you couldn't foresee? For example, when I test drove the FRS, it idled low and would hit 500rpm and bounce back up. Salesman had no clue about whether that was normal or whether the car was broken.

Look, even if the salesman is clueless, he has to be willing to go ask someone about technical sh1t.

And a salesman who could tell me, without reservation, that some technical issue is either "par for the course" or "just an anomaly with this one car", is a real asset.

lemon-fresh

you are expecting a lot.

shadoquad

Just professionalism.

Otherwise, they are what they are, sleazy pricks in a suit just there to rip you off. And that's usually how I treat them, because that's what they deserve.