Posted on 11/21/2021 10:05:27 AM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD
My husband and I went to our local Toyota dealership here in Southern Maryland - one of the largest Toyota dealerships on the East Coast - looking for a new 2022 Camry. We've owned several Camry's since 2000 and I've owned Toyota vehicles since 1980. My husband just comes along with me. He knows that I'm capable of detecting bullsh*t and cockamamie stories from sales staff, so he just sits back and listens. (He's trained me well, I must admit!)
We arrived a few minutes before the dealership opened, so we took a drive in the lots in the back to check out the vehicles. To our amazement, there were absolutely NO NEW TOYOTA CARS in any of the lots. Only employees' cars. We drove around and saw a few Used Cars and 2 Highlanders, and that's it. The dealership also has a lot across the street from them and that lot was also empty. This dealership has lots as large as airport lots, so the empty spaces shook us up a bit. We entered the dealership and were met by the assistant manager. I asked: "Where are your new cars?" and he, wanting to make a sale nonetheless, downplayed the situation by saying that "Some models are being built right now in Ohio and Kentucky." He said that the supply chain situation and delayed shipping has produced a scarcity of new Toyota products and parts that we might have to endure "for another year or so." I wondered if this idiot had voted for Biden.
Suddenly, a new 2022 Camry LE appeared as another employee drove it to the front for us to look at. I murmured to my husband that "I wonder how many people have sat and touched this model" because it looked like it was the town taxi - fingerprints and dirt all over the place. It didn't even have that 'new smell' to it anymore. I took one look inside of it, closed the door and said "No, thank you!"
I told my husband that I wanted to leave and the manager came out running saying that he had an unbelievable deal. Nothing - absolutely nothing - will make me change my 'poker face' and I will never show my cards to anyone, but I wanted to be entertained, so I said: "Ok!" The guy started talking to my husband when he detected that he couldn't get through to me, and hubby just said: "She's the boss; talk to her!"
He gave me an invoice that he said was a great deal. The invoice had jacked up the price of the Toyota we had just seen by $3,000, but then he noted that he'd give me a $1,000 discount. The somewhat scary part too is that someone must've researched us from the time we entered the lot (by looking up our license plate, perhaps) because the guy knew a lot about us. He even went insofar as to say that he'd give me another discount "in honor of all the children who suffer from autism." There are articles on the Internet about me and Special Education as I work for the school system and I used to work in that field. That's when I started getting pissed off. I slid his piece of paper across the desk and told my husband that I was ready to leave. I told the salesman that we were there to "look" but that there was "nothing to look at!"
After we pulled out of the Toyota Dealership, we went to the Ford, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Chevrolet dealerships in the same corridor and the stories were exactly the same there as well. No cars - only some trucks. Lots were empty. I told my husband that I'd keep our current Toyota and change the transmission fluid and the 4 tires soon because chances are we will not be getting a new car for a few months.
Maybe this is the plan as devised by the Democrats and the Biden Administration. They want to shove hybrid/electric vehicles down our throats so bad that they'll deliberately delay shipments. It all makes sense now; this is part of the plan! Soon, we'll all have our Vintage Toyota Vehicles like Cuba has their vintage Ford's from the 1950s. It's truly unbelievable and eye-opening. Along with high gas prices, again, THIS IS THE PLAN! This is what Democrats want and they're on the path to getting what they want. FJB!
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And Silvie, the news just broke that HUNTER BIDEN facilitated China’s purchase of a major cobalt mine in Africa-—cobalt being a major necessity to make the batteries for electric cars. The plot thickens...
Welcome to Biden’s Amerika.
How can that a**hole facilitate ANYTHING?!? He’s an absolute moron!
Chip shortages. My guess.
Kinda creepy. They must have your number. Maybe they'll call telling you when you need a new one.
That’s one of the things I’ve noticed about liberals.
If you disagree with them they’ll go online and try to look up your history.
Shout out to Kentucky and Ohio Freepers... any Toyotas rolling off the assembly lines?
Get a used car from a private individual who you’ve researched and vetted well. That’s how I got the best Honda Accord - buying from an HP executive who lived in a nice part of Los Gatos CA.
just had to buy a new car also and had the EXACT same experience here in Texas.
several dealerships with ZERO new cars, a couple with a few trucks only, and a couple with a model or two that just came off the truck and hadn’t even be cleaned yet.
But, but Trump is the eeeevillll business tycoon.
watch Scotty Kilmer (#1 car channel on Youtube 1.6 billion views and counting) on Youtube, he explains this MANY times in MANY VIDEOS. (and he hates Biden).
My brother who runs 2 restaurants and owns 6 Tacomas and Tundras got a call from Vancouver of Toyota (and he doesnt know how he got his number) offering to buy his trucks and he said no.
Plus a fellow conservative bud of mine here in L.A. who owns a used car dealership he’s never seen this before, even when Klownie the Kenyan and Sasquatch were p_resident and First Wookie.
NEWS FLASH: The auto industry is NEVER coming back and gas will be $20 per gallon soon.
They will blame it all on truck drivers and the oil companies, but it is all be design.
googling a customer is scary. No autism bumper sticker?
Took my wife’s Hyundai to our local dealership for maintenance & they told me they sell 125-140 per month & typically have 250 on the lot. Said they’re lucky to get a 100 per month to sell.
If I was buying new, I would want a rodent guarantee added for free. Lot of the new cars have been sitting in lots/fields waiting on chips.
I just did a nationwide search on AutoTempest.com for new Camry’s. By my quick, rough count, only about 35 came up.
I’ve had better luck in Virginia than dealing with any of the southern MD dealerships in Waldorf, Lex Park or Upper Marlboro. Well worth the drive from Calvert County.
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