Obviously Hendrick Honda pays close attention to G...

Obviously Hendrick Honda pays close attention to Google reviews so I hate to leave a bad one, but it's the truth. My wife and I went to look at the new 2018 Odyssey. Salesman was nice enough. Anyway, we found exactly what we wanted and were ready to cut the check right then. Now comes the fun part.

MSRP for the van was roughly $38,300. Dealer fees were roughly $650. Then there was this mysterious "Nitrogen and Lock" fee of $500, which I repeatedly asked about until the salesman finally admitted it was straight profit. The grand deal the finance manager cut for me? $600 off - didn't even cover the arbitrary dealer fees. All in price for this Odyssey was well over $40,000. I politely declined.

They also offered us $7,500 for my wife's current car, which has a KBB trade-in of $11,000 and is sitting on dealer lots at $14-15k. Bizarre.

Since there are a million Honda dealerships in NC/SC, my wife started looking other places and found the same van at Morganton Honda for $35,207. Yes, $3k less than MSRP. And their dealer fees? $499. That mysterious "Nitrogen and Lock" fee? They'd never heard of it. All in cost - $36,366.

Maybe Hendrick Honda is great. I don't know. It wasn't great for us.