With so many customers shopping online and knowing what they want and having a price when they finally get to the store it’s easy to try and justify the lack of a professional demo ride.

Dealers are always complaining about average gross profit going down. One of the biggest killers of gross profit is not doing those things that we know to be important. Allowing the demo ride to evaporate to little or no meaning is something management cannot allow.

The demo ride creates value. The touch, the feel, the smell and the opportunity for the sales person to have the customer’s undivided attention is priceless. The closing ratio and the gross profit goes up when you return to the most fundamental basic of the car business.

The demo ride is an art. Don’t let it be a lost art. That’s all I’m gonna say, Tommy Gibbs