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Getting customers to drink alcohol is a classic sales trick.

Right, but in countries where they're very strict about drinking and driving, you won't see even salespeople trying to get people drunk while selling a car.

"Drinking alcohol" does not necessarily equate to "getting drunk." At least if you're a grown adult and not in undergrad anymore.

Are undergrads supposed to get drunk more easily than older adults? How would that work? Unless you actually meant children and not young adults

Drinking is a skill. It takes time to develop. Teens and the likes - their main goal is to get wasted and fast.

That's a very American view.

Absolutely not. Just that in Europe we start heavy drinking from 12, so by the time we are 16 we know how to properly imbibe.

It’s a fancy showroom, not a car lot. You can’t drive off in one of the products unless you want to make a grand exit through the plate glass windows. Singapore car registration costs as much as the car itself and all they’d do is get you started on the paperwork.

I think they can do the paperwork pretty quickly. And I'm reasonably sure they let you do test drives.

Just need to make sure that the driving customer has the beer after their test drive. You can fill up the companions before, however.

But to strengthen your point: I don't know for sure, but from what I can tell by looking at the place there's barely enough inventory at that showroom to allow some test drives. It's definitely not a car lot.

Aha, I'm not entirely sure what a "car lot" is, but the showrooms from BYD and other car makers here in Spain definitively let you test drive cars there, although you won't buy a car and drive away from it there. Apparently it works differently in Singapore :)

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