Had a terrible experience. I've never bought a new car in my life and never used a dealer - only bought privately and never had a bad experience b/c I did my homework. However, due to a unique set of circumstances and stresses (death in the family) I ended up on his lot several years ago after my 94 840 was totalled while parked on the street. Got the whole story of all his contacts, how he only gets the cream of the crop, blah, blah, blah. Got suckered.

Drove off the lot with what appeared to be a mint 2000 XC. Got home and the alarm started going off w/o reason. Bad sign. Had run a carfax on it before I bought it and it indicated a 'minor' accident. Tracked down the original dealer and ended up speaking to the head of their shop who said, "You didn't buy the car yet did you?" You can imagine the feeling.

In any event, the car had gotten into a major front-end collision and had over $14K worth of damage. When asked why it wasn't just totalled by the insurer I was told it was within $200 and the insurer refused. So they fixed it and Torchlight stepped into the picture and bought. He claimed no knowledge which the dealer said was BS, he knew.

Long and short of it is that I went ballastic and he ended up buying it back from me, less taxes so I was still out $$, but I would never have been comfortable with the car. He said he agreed to buy it back only b/c he'd be able to sell it again in a week. I asked him how he slept at night and he said 'very well, thank you.' Nuff' said.