I spent a great deal of time "shopping" for mine back in late 04 and 05. The only dealer that had a clue was the one I first saw the car at, DAR in Marlow Heights, Md. The Sales Mgr. at that dealership, at that time knew the car inside and out because he tried to get me to buy it instead of the GT Cruiser I bought. He knew all about the Mercedes tie in. Went all over the car with me. "You wanna sit in it?" Dumb move. "If you are interested I'll let you take it out", they had just put it in the showroom while I was waiting to try out my GT. It was probably one of the reasons I fell in love with it. He took the time to try and "sell me" that car. Only problem was the GT was 23k and that one was the first Crossfire they got and wanted 37k for it. Everyone else in my Crossfire experience was clueless about the car. Its a real shame, Chrysler had no idea what they had with this car, no idea.
I'm afraid its typical of most dealerships these days. I can only wonder what it's like trying to buy a Corvette these days? When I bought mine the salesman I dealt with knew the car, he knew each car he sold me, about 6 cars by the time I was 22. Can you imagine the same clueless treatment buying a 60-100,000 vehicle?
Pat