Well you're talking to a guy who is from Quebec and there is no way in heck I was putting a deposit with ANY Quebec dealer down here, they are all just too small compared to the bigger ones in ON. Case in point, I walked into a dealer close to my house (Brossard for the Quebec guys), the sales guy at the front did not even care I walked inside, was more interested in catering to the couple who were probably interested in an SUV. I asked him to see some C8's, he looked annoyed, like I was wasting his time. Finally he took me upstairs to the locked area, where a whopping 4 cars were being stored over the winter (Q4/Q1 deliveries). Yeah, so figured if these are the cars they are storing over the winter for those who cannot drive them out, then that means an average of maybe 1 car per month. Asked him how I would go about ordering a C8, he said go the the GM site to price it out, and then come to see them with a cheque. Mumbled something about 25 people on their list (this was back in April 2021).
If I showed you how big, new, and modern this dealer was (2 huge floors), could probably make 2 dealerships out of that building !!! Yet, half the building was empty, the service was crap and the allocations looked to be piss poor. Walked out and placed my deposit in ON instead. Worth every KM of the drive. Two buddies of mine have deposits with dealers here, anxious to see how long it will take them to get a car, figuring a solid 2 years !! Guessing the Quebec dealers are probably 6-12 cars a year, maybe there is one big one out there somewhere that might see 24 a year in the big city. The ON dealers are getting 60-120 a year, big difference. Sure their lists are longer but the odds of landing a car within 1 year or less is much higher !!
