Giovanni Salimena

Review of Autobarn Mazda - Evanston,IL

My wife and I were in the market for a new or used...

My wife and I were in the market for a new or used car and decided that Autobarn had what we were looking for at competitive prices. We were looking at a RAV 4, Honda CRV and the Mazda CX-5. The gentleman that assisted us was Jusuf Hodzic. He pulled out numerous cars for us to test drive which was fantastic. He was patient and not pushy at all, which was refreshing after hearing nightmare stories from friends and other dealerships. The positive was that he put in a lot of time with us and was super patient on letting us make a decision. We had so much information to process he didn't push or sway us one way or the other to make a decision. Refreshing experience.

The other thing that we liked about The Autobarn was their prices. After a day of test driving with Jusuf, we went home and scoped out a lot of cars in the area online. Apparently, The Autobarn's pricing guys had done the same, because they really did have competitive prices on their used cars.

We ended up with a 2014 Mazda CX-5 Sport in Sky Blue. We are now almost 3,500 miles into a cross-country trip from Chicago to San Francisco, currently in the Grand Tetons and the CX-5 Sport has handled very well! Through city, freeway, highway, gravel road, mud, crud and corn fields our CX-5 is averaging 28 MPG. Not bad, considering we have climbed up to 8,500 ft and back to 500 ft about 4 times on this trip.