Auto-Torium

I have terrible credit and had applied online for a car loan. I ended up getting a call from a financial person from Auto-​torium who advised that she had a preapproval, and they had 5 Jettas and 4 Passats (I was looking for a VW) at their Salem, NH location. To bring my paycheck stubs and come on up. So I did. They ended up finding someone to fund me, which was amazing, but the interest rate was atrocious. Additionally, they didn’t have 5 Jettas and 4 Passats… more like 1 Jetta and 1 Passat, and a couple of other VW models. The car I ended up buying was a Jetta which had only 20K miles on it. They ended up wanting to push that car out the door because they accepted my check as a downpayment, which wouldn’t clear for them, and they made me promise to bring the $ 500/​downpayment to them the next day in cash, and still let me take the car home. They rushed it so much they were able to weasel out of detailing the car the way a new used car normally would be detailed. They are definitely eager beavers up there. But they did enable me to achieve my goal of buying a new used car. Salesmen were nice. Overall, a good experience ==I wrote this on day 1 of my experiences with them. I was happy I had a new used car to drive home in.
After having driven home my car, they call me later that week to advise me that I need another $ 1,000 down, or else they’re gonna have to take the car back. So I get an advance on my monthly paycheck and nix my landlord $ 200 (to pay him back later). I gave them the $ 1,000 they needed, and here it is, 10 days later, and I’m still not financed. (I think I’m close tho.) Nevermind the fact that I didn’t have the money to pay the sales tax, so i’m still driving around in an unregistered vehicle… I’ll keep you posted… but you might want to read this review «
;. Sounds kinda typical of Autotorium… Oh, and btw, KBB lists the value as $ 13,000 and I paid $ 15,000 for the car…
Long storyb short… they put me in a car I couldn’t afford and didn’t even detail it before sending me home with it. I tried to return it the next day because of the bad feeling I had about the whole thing. They rudely refused. I was able to keep payments up for 2 months. 6 months after buying the car, it was repo-​d. Now i’m taking the bus to work. Don’t do business with these people. They do not care about you or your budget and they are not at all forgiving.

Not sure how well these guys do in person. But I inquired about a car I saw on their web site and simply wanted more information. I was bombarded with phone calls and harassing e mails to go down there and buy a car from them. I know they’re supposed to pressure people. It’s sales, but I ended up not even stopping in their showroom because all the phone calls were just a turn off. No thank you. There is a difference between helping someone out and straight out going overboard.