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[quote=Anonymous]I'm one of the CarMax fans above. I bought a new car a few years ago and had a fairly good experience at Safford Brown' Honda in Arlington. I already knew what I wanted, but if I needed to test drive I would have test driven cars separately from purchasing; that is, gone into the dealership and said clearly, "I AM NOT BUYING TODAY but I would like to test drive. And I don't have much time because I have to pick up my kids, so if you can't put me in a car for a test drive within 15 minutes, then I'll be leaving." Then later contacted dealers about buying.

Anyway, since I knew what I wanted, I emailed and said I wanted X car and was ready to buy and wanted to spend zero time in the dealership. What was their best out-the-door price?

We ended up conducting most everything by text. I did do financing through them because they offered me a good deal. I made it clear via text what the out-the-door price was and that I would walk away if that wasn't the actual price In the end, they did make me come to the dealership to sign the papers and that took about 90 minutes, which was about an hour too long IMO. After about an hour, I finally stood up and said, "I need to leave now, am I taking a car with me?" and suddenly things moved quickly. So next time I would do that after about 15 minutes. There is zero reason why the car shouldn't be ready to go and paper work waiting.

If you are in a position to take your time and really can walk away if things aren't going the way you want them too, I recommend this approach. But if you need to buy a car quickly (as I did earlier this month), I recommend CarMax every time. [/quote]

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