What is an "auto mall"?
An "auto mall" is collection or cooperative of dealers, sometimes owned by the same dealer, sometimes owned by many different dealers. They have all put themselves on one particular street or one particular area of town to give people the most choice and be able to test drive vehicles in a much tighter space. So you'll have every different manufacturer located there. Most often there will be one particular test track in the same area where you can then compare in a very fair "apples to apples" test of different vehicles within the same conditions. It's also often thought that you'll be able to get a better discount because you'll have a lot of competition, a lot of different models all in one place, and big year-end inventory of all of them. I think it's most important to get a good deal. Its mostly important to make sure you've done your preparation and your research. The "auto mall" may or may not help in that respect, but does help in being able to say, "the guy across the street is offering me x price for a similar vehicle." So it does give you some angle there but I don't think it been confirmed that you'd get a better deal there.
