Ford salesman doesn't like his cars (apparently)

[Cooper69S]

had this strange and frustrating experience yesterday...
out of curiosity i dropped into the local ford dealer to check out BA XR8's and XR6T's to see if I could be tempted to upgrade the V8AU - which probably isn't going to happen but i felt like looking anyway...
well the salesman comes over to ask if he can help and i explained what i was looking for and after very unenthusiastically showing me a few that they had there, he starts suggesting i should at a non-turbo xr6 instead. It went something like...
him: you can only do 110kmh anyway
me: yes but i also go to the drags - most people look at these cars because they enjoy the extra power - otherwise may as well just get an XT
him: well i think you'd be better off with an XT. I have one and it has all the power you need. a good driver in an XT can get around a track just as quickly as a bad driver in a XR8
me: yeah ok... another idea do you have any V8 Ghias? I used to have a BA Ghia 4L and it was a beautiful car - a V8 one would probably be good.
him: no they're very rare. Ghias are usually bought by mature people and mature people don't want a v8.

i basically gave up at that point and went home annoyed. i felt like calling his boss and saying that after they've gone to the trouble of lining up all their XR6Ts, XR8s and a GT and Typhoon or two along the front of their yard, their salesman is telling people not to 'waste their money' on them. i bet if this bloke had any influence in the company he'd kill off all the performance stuff and we'd have 1982 all over again...