Reminds me of 2007, shopping and narrowed it down to the Frontier or Tacoma.
Nissan dealer took me on a test drive and said we don’t have the exact truck you want (extended cab, V6, 2WD, and MT) but we’ve got one in Orlando I can bring it. Pricing was within a few hundred of my target.
Drove down the street to Toyota, sales manager and salesman are standing on the steps like they’re looking over their uninhabited kingdom because nobody else was there . I told them what I want, they talked amongst themselves in a language I didn’t recognize; and the salesman walked me over to a 4door automatic fully loaded 4x4. I left him standing there, went back to the manager up front who seemed annoyed when he told me I could walk around the lot out back and maybe I’d find what I wanted, mind you it was dark and staring to rain.
Not surprisingly I ended up with a Frontier, salesman got me what I wanted and made it easy. Coincidentally and through no networking, two of my coworkers bought Nissan’s from the exact same salesman within a year. The guy knew how to make car buying easy and it worked.