I would say, my best experience of car buying in recent - mr_raja
I would say, my best experience of car buying in recent years. I live in Maryland and was looking for a new Corolla Cross Hybrid XSE. First off, I was having tough time finding one in the color I wanted, and if I did find one, majority of the Maryland Toyota dealers were acting like it was still 2021-2022. So much attitude and little to no willingness to sell the vehicle. Well, after looking for a Corolla Cross for a couple of weeks in MD and VA, I widened my search to 100 miles from my zip code and came across CMA's Toyota, and I am glad I did.
From the start till the finish, the experience was one of the best, if not THE best, experience I have ever had in buying a vehicle. I was initially in touch with one of the managers, Ashley Olson, who was pretty quick in responding to my inquiry, and had absolutely zero issues sending me an Out-The-Door price over email, most of the dealerships in MD flat-out declined to provide me one. After her initial responses, I was connected to their sales person Travis, or T.J., for further communication and I will like to mention that Travis was an exceptional Sales person. He was more than willing to work with me, without any type of attitude or delay. He was extremely prompt and quick with his email responses, and wasted no time. When I arrived at the dealership, he was already ready with my car, cleaned and topped off with gas, up at the entrance.
Once we started the process, I told my brother, who was my ride there that we should pitch our tents because, based on my previous car buying experiences, we will be there for a while to get the process completed, and I was dead wrong. Keith, CMA’s finance manager, took barely 15 minutes to get everything signed and get my temp tags ready. Not only that, he was absolutely zero-pressure guy. He did not try to upsell me any add-ons or extras. We went over the list of any optional items, but he did not try to over sell any of them to me, which is a MAJOR plus for me.
All in all, from the time we got at the lot, till the time we drove away in the new vehicle, it took us an hour and a half (rounded up), which included a short test drive of the vehicle, and looking around at another vehicle as well, which must be the quickest vehicle purchase I ever did in my 20 years of vehicle buying. It could be because I paid by personal check, but even in the past when I paid in personal check, it still took longer than an hour and a half.
I could not be happier with my experience, and quite frankly, with the recent madness of extreme price hikes of vehicles and shortage of inventory, I was not looking forward to my vehicle purchase, but I am glad that CMA's Toyota staff made it as painless as possible, for which, I cannot thank you enough!
*** This review is going to be a multi-platform review, meaning, I will be posting it on other review sites as well ***
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