I've been there, that's a huge dealership right a few blocks off Wisconsin and they always seem to be full of everything.

 

Yep, they have a great showroom. Always a ton of nice cars in it.

 

Amazing. So glad to hear it. They truly did slap giant ADMs on anything with wheels and were super arrogant about it the one time I had stopped in to try the EQS.

 

Yeah they were arrogant about it for sure…

 

Well, we know the OP has some grit.
Sitting in a new car and leaves without buying it.

I have a family member who can't do that, gets talked into trading up everytime. lol

 

There comes a point they just have to be asking for it if it's happened more than once lol!

 

Haha, if it didn’t have a couple things I didn’t want I might have been swayed lol

 

Oh man I can tell you some stories.

His last car was a new Rav 4.
Only had it 9 months and took it to dealer for oil change and drove out with a one year newer -exact same car- but in different color.

It usually takes him a couple years to hit a curb or something and get talked into a new one but this last purchase was a family record. haha
(claimed they needed to move cars, gave him almost what he paid for it, payments barely went up. I've heard this before. lol)

PS- cant say anything cuz I hold the family record for used cars since I went thru them often in my younger years.

 

You know why, don't you? Bethesda and Tysons are both big-money areas...among the highest on the East Coast, and probably the highest outside of Manhattan. Tysons is the very definition of big buisness.

 

Well of course I know why. Do you think I sell real estate in the DMV and I don’t know that Bethesda and Tyson’s are big money areas? My office is down the street from Euro and I grew up in Bethesda

Tysons never had ADMs like Euro. Euro is where I saw the $96,000 ADM on that E63S Wagon. Just because a dealer is in a very affluent area doesn’t excuse them trying to screw people.

 

 

Housing prices don't necessarily correspond to big-money buisness areas, though. The most expensive homes in the area are generally in McLean/Great Falls and Potomac, not necessarily Tysons or Bethesda, although Tysons is very close to McClean.

Although I haven't been there in a number of years (I did a review on an E63 some time ago), one thing I remember about the Mercedes dealer at Tysons was the nice people. The nicest and most courteous Mercedes salesman I ever met was there (name was Aage)...he's probably retired by now.

At one time, they also sold Porsches at that dealership, but later it moved across the street with the Audi shop.

 

Please.

And Bethesda his per capita the most expensive location in the region. Again, do you think I don't know that?

I wasn't overly impressed by the salespeople at Tysons...the guy who sold me my car at Euro in Germantown was great, as are all the folks I have met at Euro in Bethesda.

 

The biggest problem dealers will have, is that even with below MSRP "deals" - they aren't even going to be able to get people back into the showrooms. People are so turned off to car buying now after what was done to them the last two years. Many people just bought out their final leases and own those cars outright now, and plan to keep them for several more years. The days of flipping a lease every 3 years are gone for a lot of people, and US unit sales for cars will likely never see the 17 million number level again for a long time.

 

I'll swing in the local MB this week if I have time and let ya'll know what they're doing down here.

A couple months ago VW had a small ADM but had almost no inventory but Lexus had none on their RX350's but can't say on the higher priced models.
Think they keep the expensive and exciting cars in the showroom I'm expecting cuz they sure aren't out in the lot with the others, so I'll have to lurk up in there and see.

I always feel creepy looking around when not there to buy anything, I just tell them taking pics for forum when they ask and they leave me alone couple times I did it, only do it for the forum just for fun.