A car salesman at a Toyota dealership recently shared a wild story on social media that has people scratching their heads. A man came in wanting to buy a 2025 Toyota Corolla and trade in his old vehicle. When the salesman walked outside to check out what the customer was trading in, he could not believe his eyes.
The car looked like it had just been in a major wreck. The whole front end was smashed up, the bumper was gone, and you could see the frame was badly damaged. It was the kind of car most people would think belongs in a junkyard, not on a dealer’s lot. But somehow, the dealership still took it.
Vercetti Jay, the salesman who posted about this on TikTok, seemed just as shocked as everyone else. In his video, he said the customer had just driven the wrecked car straight from a body shop to the dealership. “He drove this from the body shop here,” Jay explained. “And we took it. And guess what? He’s getting a brand new ’25 Corolla.” His video blew up and got more than 180,900 views by Thursday.
Most people watching had the same reaction as the salesman
When people saw the video, they flooded the comments with their own shocked reactions. A lot of folks said they had no idea that car dealerships would even look at vehicles in such terrible shape. One person wrote they always wondered if dealerships would accept a car with the check engine light on. Another viewer got excited and said maybe there was still hope for their own junky car sitting in the driveway.
But some commenters were not surprised at all. They brought up how Toyotas are known for lasting forever and keeping their value better than most cars. Even when a Toyota is beat up or wrecked, it can still be worth something because people know these cars can take a beating and keep going.
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One commenter said the dealer probably gave the guy around $500 for the damaged car and will turn around and sell it for way more once they fix it up. Someone else told a story about their own Toyota that kept running forever, saying their Camry only stopped when the engine actually fell out.
This whole thing shows something interesting about how car dealerships work. They will take pretty much any car you bring them because they have ways to make money from it. They can fix it up and sell it again, or they can sell it to places that buy damaged cars and part them out.
Toyotas are especially good for this because even when they look terrible, the parts inside often still work fine. What seemed crazy to most people watching that video actually makes perfect business sense when you think about it. The customer got his new Corolla, and the dealer got a car they can probably make a profit on after some work.
