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      03-09-2013, 09:20 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by fireline43 View Post
The best part was when I went to test drive the X1 last week and the dealer was telling me how they are selling like "hotcakes". I have seen maybe one of the road. Why do salesman have to be so bad.
You presume he had unlimited hotcakes to sell.
If he had just a few, and they went quickly, he would be correct.

And with new models, ordering just a few is common enough - they don't want to fill their lot with models that might not sell.
With the X1, they come from Germany, so it's not like he can call and have more cars delivered next week.

Then there's the dearth of BMW dealers in some areas. People in areas without BMW dealers may drive quite a long way to buy their BMW. There certainly isn't one near where I live. You don't see these BMWs, because they're not anywhere near you. This is perhaps especially true for crossovers and SUVs, which are more popular outside the urban areas where the BMW dealers tend to be located.

So they may sell like hotcakes, and you still don't see many.
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