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I went to Rothrock Nissan in Pennsylvania today. I looked over the Z on the showroom floor and nobody bothered to say anything to me so I walk over to the desk and politely asked for an associate. I'm 26 years old and I'm dressed nice because today was supposed to be a day to celebrate.

A guy approaches me, I explained I've got 200,000 miles on my current daily driver and I'd like to buy a new Nismo Z. They didn't have one so they looked up other dealer inventory, and said hold on a moment while they get some keys so I can test drive one of the models in stock.

Guy comes back and hands me a piece of paper that outlines all of their services for people who purchase new car from them. I asked where the keys are, the guy says to me, "we can let you test drive it in the parking lot only." Yup.. you read that right.. In the parking lot only. So I'm supposed to get a good feel for comfort, convenience, stability, acceleration, braking, and road irregularities all while driving 5 mph in the parking lot?

I thought he was joking, so I said why is that? He looks up from the paper and he says, "because guys like you come and beat the crap out of them before real customers buy them and they end up with a car that's already been beat on.:

Mind you, I came here to buy a car.. I'm not going to buy a car that I can not test drive first of all. Second, what on earth are they thinking talking to me like this? I'm 26 years and I certainly look like it. There was no reason what-so-ever for type of discrimination on their behalf.

The guy brings me over to the manager, and the manager explains to me that they do have 2 GTR's on the lot. I said I'm here to buy a Nismo Z.. and I'm not going to test drive it on the parking lot that's dangerous and just not intelligent. I request a brochure so I can leave and find another dealer.. guy comes out with a brochure shows me a picture of the Nismo in the book and then puts it on his desk. Says follow me.. and takes me over to the GTR's outside the next showroom.

I said what is the point of this, I told you what I want.. you refuse to let me test drive it, you don't even let me have the brochure and you think I'm going to spend 84,000 dollars on an automatic GTR when I specifically mentioned all my automobiles are STICK.

I can not make sense of any of this and I am thoroughly aggravated by their games. The only reason I can think that they would have any reason to believe I'm not serious about buying a Z was because I drove there in my Subaru Legacy. However, trying to talk me out of buying a Z and into buying a GTR says otherwise.

OH... the best part is the salesman tells me they don't drop any prices it is what it is. The Nismo is 39,xxx solid, and the GTR is 84,xxx solid. No haggling etc either buy it or leave.

**** you rothrock Nissan. I had planned to buy cash on the spot.