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Let me start by saying that my husband and I had b...

Let me start by saying that my husband and I had been searching for the right vehicle for our growing family for months prior to visiting the Echo Park Drivers Select location in Grand Prairie. We drove up from Waco on a Monday afternoon with our 2 youngest daughters after having found 2 potential vehicles we wanted to test drive and after having established contact with one of the salesman at the dealership prior to driving up. Echo Park is an extremely large, and at times overwhelming, dealership. Has a bit of a "cattle call" feel as there are no traditional offices only cubicles with very minimal privacy offered for discussing details of a sale. That said, it was very nice and clean, they offer a variety of beverages and plenty of seating for their guests. There are thousands of vehicles for sale at this location and as such the driveways around the building can be very busy with cars constantly being pulled in and out for test drives by valets who are less than careful at times. We had to wait a short time for our sales rep, Chris, to find us when we arrived at the dealership and then had a bit longer wait when he went to pull the first of the two vehicles we wanted to test drive. He was very patient and pleasant to work with. We were able to look at the car at our leisure and take it out for a drive without any sales pressure whatsoever. The whole process of drawing up the sale paperwork did take quite a while but some of it was due to my forgetting to bring our insurance card. Make sure you give yourself plenty of time, are prepared and bring all necessary insurance paperwork with you, have a car or cars already selected to test drive, do establish contact with a sales rep and make an appointment prior to arriving at the dealership, and if you're serious about buying a car from them and are planning to finance fill out the application on their website before you ever show up. They do not negotiate price. What you see online is what you pay when you go to buy. There are a fair amount of "extras" available for purchase such as extended warranties, upholstery protection, etc that you will need to evaluate the pros and cons of for yourself before you sign the purchase agreement. Chris did an excellent job of explaining these to us and allowing us to choose what made sense for us. You can ask to see the total price with and without certain extras; Chris was very accommodating with us and showed us our options many different ways. Make sure you read everything thoroughly and pick the extras and payments that best fit your financial situation. While you are doing the paperwork they take your car in and clean it up, wash it etc and pull it up ready to go. Wish they had topped off the gas tank before we drove away (it was 2/3 of a tank full) but all in all we were pleased and we left feeling good about our purchase but exhausted.

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