The most insane test drive ever

I look at the köppen I'm like what are you doing arrest this guy no response whatsoever around 2011 and 12 we started to get a lot of demand for exotic cars from South America and at that point the dealer network there was kind of underdeveloped and it was still a fairly novel concept that it was actually safe enough to drive cars that valuable in those countries particularly Brazil because that's where a lot of the calls were coming from but we weren't being contacted by the end users down there and said it was brokers or businesses in South Florida that were exporting the cars and since it's against our franchise agreement to sell cars that we know are probably going to be exported it wasn't really up to me whether or not we took these deals so I would talk to my general manager and at the time he was pretty open to that he wanted to sell as many as we could and so if that's what this meant okay so there was one guy in particular that we dealt with a lot and he was very professional and easy to deal with and made expectations clear and communicated well and he became a great client I would sell him five to ten cars a year and in general he would just call and say I've got a guy that wants a guy arto he's open to these colors what do you have and he would just buy something out of our inventory he would give us a deposit in two or three weeks later he'd have the rest of the money and he would send it it can take a long time to get that amount of money out of South America so it was nice to have this kind of buffer not only for some plausible deniability but to make the transactions a little bit more convenient but about a year into the relationship he came to me and said he had a request for two very specific cars a guy wanted a yellow 2012 brand-new Guyardo perform ontei and a 2012 Bentley Continental Flying Spur speed and I could find the Guyardo through another dealer but obviously we weren't a Bentley dealer and so I told him let me do it they or two a research I'll find us a car figure out what discounts are available and I'll get you one so the next day I found a white one exactly what he wanted with the right options at a good discount and he was happy but we had to kind of lay down the rules a little bit differently because we told him look in most cases if your deal falls apart we'll be happy to give you your deposit back and we had in some cases but in this case we're having to secure two cars and buy them let the warranties start that we really don't want for inventory so we need a bigger deposit and truly in this case it is non-refundable and he agreed with that but he said look I don't have a bunch of right now but I do have an almost brand-new BMW x6 that I secured for a client he gave me a deposit and then he didn't consummate the transaction so why don't I give you that and the title as a non-refundable deposit on these cars so we agreed to that it was worth about 55 grand so we bought the other two cars and brought them into inventory and a couple weeks later kind of as you'd imagine his deal fell apart so we ended up owning this brand-new Lamborghini and this brand-new Bentley that we really didn't want and we didn't know what it was really gonna take to sell them and they set around for a very long time but eventually we did sell the Bentley to some professional golfer I remember who it was not Tiger Woods and the Guyardo just sort of set around for a good long while and a couple months later my boss was like guys we have got to move this guy our tow and at that time the 200 or so thousand dollar price point that the LP 550 s were at those cars sold great but the 280 to 300 LP 570 s set around for a good long while and he was starting to get nervous about it and so we were trying to call anybody but I didn't have anybody I could just snap my fingers and sell the car to and around that time there was a guy who came in fairly often trying to test-drive cars and in general we didn't test-drive many cars and certainly not new cars and never early in the process we would already have dealt with when you want to buy how you want to buy how you want to pay what the contingencies are what we've got to deal with before that because we weren't worried about you not liking the way the car drove and if you were just trying to drive a car to see which one you'd eventually want to buy I mean that's what magazines are for so we weren't doing much test driving and certainly I wasn't and I really didn't deal with that many people that were showroom ups that just walked in because about 80% of my business at that point was repeat customers but this guy had come in a few times fishing for test drives and I just kind of deflected it and he'd get a little bit upset but then just sort of leave and he was an exceedingly unpleasant person to deal with he had said that his wife was some professional tennis player and that he had some tech startup that he was in the process of selling to Microsoft for like 80 million dollars but he wouldn't tell us who she was or what the business did or what it was called or anything like that and obviously the guys lying but regardless he would just go away and it wasn't that big of a deal but he showed up one Saturday and I was busy doing something else so he started talking to one of my coach workers and a little bit less gracefully than I would tend to he refused to let this guy test drive a car and things got a little heated then they got more hostile then they got a little bit combative and they were shouting at each other and he was screaming profanity across our showroom and I'm over in the corner with some cappuccino and popcorn just ready for the fireworks to start because this co-worker of mine generally kept more firearms on his person or around his desk than a Jason Bourne movie but my general manager didn't like the circumstance he stepped in and tried to defuse everything and his solution was let me let you talk to Ed so he calls me over and he's like ed knows everything about Lamborghinis he'll be happy to help you with whatever you want to do all right hey I'm at boolean how can I help you so he said I want to test drive that yellow Lamborghini right now and I said well you know it's really up to him my general manager here he wants you to I'll be more than happy to pull it out he said yep whatever you want ed go get the keys get it out of here so we begin the 20-year 30-minute process of shuffling all these cars around to get this car out of the showroom because Saturdays are the worst possible day to test-drive a car at an exotic car dealership the showrooms are full of Instagram photographers and everybody's busy doing different things delivering cars to people coming in from out of town so it's just a terrible time to tie up an hour or two with a particular customer especially one that you know is not going to buy a car so we get the car out of the showroom and we head out on the test drive and our test drive around is actually dictated by our insurance provider and it's designed to be an easy way to show someone a car in a very safe way so it's mostly right turns with good visibility no unaided left's and we kind of go down a state highway and then we loop around an exit where there's a Marta station our local Georgia public transit and then back up to the dealership so it's about a 10-mile loop and we drive the first five miles just kind of showing them how all the controls work and this was before all the accidents that would happen in the subsequent year so our insurance company really liked us and we wanted to keep it that way so I was behaving myself although we did intend to along that route because that state highway is technically speed patrolled by the Georgia State Patrol not the local cops and there's no good places for them to set up speed traps and since its kind of the only road like that on the north part of town there really are never cops on this route and that's kind of strategic on our part sometimes we really want to show people what the cars can do and as we talked about in the press car video you can go pretty fast along our test-drive route but in this case I was behaving myself just kind of showing him alright this is the car this is the speed limit let's just see how things go and keep everything safe so we get to the point where we change seats kind of in a parking deck at the smartest ation and he gets in the driver's seat and I make sure his mirrors were adjusted his steering wheel is where he wants it everything is comfortable and he starts driving and this guy goes absolutely insane I mean immediately just full acceleration hard braking upsetting the balance of the car I mean there are elegant ways to speed and this was not that it was dangerous it was entirely out of control and I immediately said dude this is not how we're gonna drive like you can try to experience the car and see what you like but this is not how we're gonna behave in this car on this test drive and he would kind of back off and then immediately just speed back up and I'm like sir I got to ask you to slow down we cannot drive like this I understand that you want to see what the car can do but this is not how we're gonna do it and again he kind of slowed down but he kept just speeding up and he's going 130 140 miles per hour weaving in and out of cars and I finally say sir if you persist like this I'm gonna have to ask you to pull over and we gotta switch seats and he's like no no no I'm driving the car and then fortunately about a quarter-mile ahead I see a local cop driving in our same direction and I said sir there's a cop let's just behave ourselves we need to keep a good relationship with them and he goes no downshifting two gears flooring the throttle and accelerating as hard and fast as he can at the rear of this police car and I'm like whoa what do you do it and he slams on the brakes and comes within inches of this cops rear bumper I mean just tailgating this guy and I'm like oh fantastic this is gonna save us all he's gonna pull him over give him a ticket for following too close and I'll get to drive back to the dealership no the cop doesn't even notice he goes watch this like no no no please don't and he down shifts again floors the car barely avoids knocking the cops mirror off and flies away from him well over a hundred miles an hour and of course we got the top down this performant a convertible I look at the cop and I'm like what are you doing arrest this guy no response whatsoever so as he's accelerating away from this completely non-responsive cop he looks over at me and says I am invincible and I said well I'm not and I'm like this is how I'm gonna die I don't know what witchcraft this guy is capable of but I don't know what's happening in my life at all right now but I know we have a cloverleaf exit coming up in half a mile and this guy doesn't have any clue how to drive a car so we're gonna flip over and die right about now and magically we didn't the cop never responded in any way but we made it around that turn and I said sir we're almost back please just drive carefully and somehow we managed to get back with the car in one piece and us all still alive and I have no idea how that happened but of course as you would imagine he immediately said well let me continue to think about it and I'll call you if I decide this is what I want to buy and he immediately departed without saying anything to anybody else at the Auto Show and I walked back in and of course their first question is well is he gonna buy it that's it you guys got to be kidding me [Music]

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Keywords: Ed Bolian, Lamborghini Atlanta, Test Drive, VINwiki, Car Stories, Motorcars of Georgia, Motorcars of Atlanta, Lamborghini, Gallardo, LP570, Performante, Spyder, Yellow, Supercar, Speeding, GA 400, GA400, Cops, Crazy, Insane, Customer, Test, Drive, Driving, Speed, Danger, Car Sales, Selling, General Manager, Export, Brazil, South America, Dealer Trade, Inventory, BMW X6, Bentley, Continental, Flying Spur, V10, W12

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Length: 10min 12sec (612 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 08 2018