Dave Ronyak
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Your dealer's strategy sounds much like a derivative of one that impressed me and my parents >40 years ago. They were shopping for a car, and wanted something relatively luxurious, but didn't want something as large as the Cadillacs and Lincolns of that time (1962). They happened to stop in a dealer who had recently began to market Mercedes-Benz. He gave us a ride in his personal vehicle, then offered my parents the use of the car over a weekend. My mother warned him that she had planned to drive from Pittsburgh, PA to Cleveland, OH that weekend to visit her brother. The dealer immediately replied that was fine by him, and predicted that the more my parents tried out that car, the more likely they would buy it. The dealer was right. And my parents drove that M-B for the next 11 years, and it was still running well when they sold it. Quality and performance speak loudly and long. Too bad you could not have taken both an RO 125 and an RO 150 for side-by-side comparison. Beware the Festool slippery slope!
Dave R.
Dave R.