$50 to test drive a Ford...what should we drive?

**White95Max** · 12-01-2004, 04:44 PM

Ford sent out these cards offering $50 for anyone that test drives a new Ford vehicle. My dad and I are going to the local dealership in a little while to drive something and get our $50.

What should we drive?

I told him to drive the new Stang but I thought the Five-Hundred might be a nice one to drive too...it`s a little more of what he would be looking for if he were actually in the market for a new car.

**eShine** · 12-01-2004, 04:51 PM

Try the new GT40! LOL

**Scottwax** · 12-01-2004, 04:56 PM

The Ford GT! If they aren`t letting anyone test those, then definitely a new Mustang GT. What a great restyle they gave the Mustang. I am very impressed with its appearance. :up

**White95Max** · 12-01-2004, 05:03 PM

They don`t have any GTs around here.

I told him to drive a Stang GT 5spd, but he doesn`t like MTs as much as I do. And of course they wouldn`t let me drive it anyway. If they did, I`m sure the salesman would be right there in the car.

And the card they sent out is addressed to my dad, so only he can get the money.

**zainoshine** · 12-01-2004, 05:12 PM

I`ve gotten many of these in the mail. Volvo said $100 to Orvis, so we drove the new XC (when it first came out), Ford sent us a swiss army knife for driving the F150 supercrew (when it was a new truck style), Mercedes was giving out $25 gift cards to amazon.com for testing the new C230 Coupe back in the day, and I got a Kenneth Cole Watch ($109) from Nissan for driving the new Altima, which we were actually very close to buying.

Also, in the summer of 2003, my mom and I went to the Range Rover Experience at the American Club and Resort in Kohler, WI and were treated to food, shot off Holland and Holland guns ($80,000!!!!) and went to Road America, driving the new Range Rover. We then went off-road in it on a track that they made. It was exciting. Lot`s of free-bees too, like a leather journal, DVD, and $2000 off your purchase of a Range Rover.

I love it when auto companies give free stuff!!!

Paul, I`m assuming that you`ll go to Maritime Ford. When I went there last year to get a brochure for my parents on the Windstar, they said it "would cost me $3". BS!!!!! So we didn`t buy from them because of how stupid they are by doing little things like that and went out to get an Odyssey!

**hirosh** · 12-01-2004, 05:14 PM

tell your dad to drive the auto 05 mustang and at a stop light to floor it. i heard the first 3 gears are pretty close and makes for quick launches. i think the ford five hundred is based on a volvo. or if possible, see if they have an 04 cobra. heh heh....

**andriver** · 12-01-2004, 05:29 PM

New mustang.

**jimtriz** · 12-01-2004, 06:04 PM

White95Max, you gotta go for a Ford Focus!! LOL just kidding...definitely go for a Stang!!! Have some fun, and the $50 is just a bonus!!

**White95Max** · 12-01-2004, 07:48 PM

Well we got back a little while ago. My dad drove the 500, though I told him to drive the Stang GT. He has problems with his hip, so he doesn`t like sitting low in cars. The 500 had seats that sit up higher than most cars.

I asked the salesman that rode along how much they charge for exterior detailing. He said he didn`t know, and he said they don`t even have their own detailing department...they send the new cars out to a "polishing shop" in town. The salesman asked me if I detailed cars (maybe he saw my car drive up

) and I said yes. He said they were looking for a place to send the cars for detailing because the other place couldn`t keep up or something.

Unfortunately, I couldn`t say I would do the cars because it`s too d*mn cold here for detailing for the next couple months or more.

I could be making a good chunk of change on these dealer cars. And new cars wouldn`t be very hard, unless they were badly swirled.

I felt a couple of the cars in the showroom and they were pretty smooth, but still a bit gritty. Obviously they just polished them without claying (or waxing even).

The paint on the car we drove was not smooth at all. No swirling that I could see, although it was silver/grey so it was hard to tell.

The car was actually quite nice. It had the optional CVT transmission, which was interesting. The motor was pretty strong (Duratec V6), although I`m used to hearing the roar of a cold-air intake upon heavy throttle, so I can`t say it sounded all that great!

I still wish we would have driven the Stang GT instead.