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I can't speak for all dealerships, but when i was in community college (20 years ago) i worked at a Chevy dealer in upstate NY we would see new cars delivered with all sorts of different milage.
The "lot boys " who were in charge of taking delivery of the new cars and filing out delivery paperwork weren't even aloud dealer plates to take a car off the lot unless it needed to be driven for gas across the street or something, sure if it was a new model or special they would spend extra time in it playing with the new bells and whistles but they weren't racking up extra miles.
The techs who would do the pdi would drive it to make sure everything worked but in reality there were much fewer "joy rides"than you would think.
To put it simply these techs get paid flat rate (.5 hours or so to complete a camaro pdi). And it would typically take that long to complete, now they could spend the next 30 minutes going for a cruise but in reality they would all rather get to the next pdi and make another .5 hours of pay.
We (techs) would take it on a 5 minute drive to make sure it didn't have vibrations at speed and cruise control worked but that typically only added up to 5 or so miles. Again i can't speak for what is typical across all dealerships just what i experienced.
Also in my experience at my old dealership those keys never made it to the sales department key machine if they were a customer order. I have known salesmen to take new cars for joy rides if they have the ability.
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