I get that, but why completely chase away the easy win, especially as your cars move upmarket in quality and price? The stupidity is astonishing.

I actually do work in car sales. We just treat our customers right. Would never work at a Kia dealer.

Depends on a brand. Some like BMW will let you order from factory and you can customize everything. Others like Toyota will be virtually impossible to order from factory.

The dealership will make more money selling a big, long, high rate loan then they will selling the car. If you are well qualified for a good loan or even worse for them, have cash, they’d prefer someone else.

This happened to us a couple years ago when we were looking for an SUV for my wife. Her finalists were the Sorrento and the Highlander. Sorrento was a bit better deal and she liked the interior look more, so we scheduled a time to go in, checkbook in hand, to complete the transaction. Instead of the price we’d been…

They’re too used to selling cheap cars to people who can’t get approved on a Toyota. They don’t know how to deal with people that are actually wealthy and able to buy what they really want, and they end up driving away a large portion of that segment with shitty tactics.

And this kind of behavior is precisely why Hyundai and Kia will have a hard time dethroning other carmakers as a credible alternative to the Toyonza mainstream trio.

how is it that Kia dealers have an almost universally terrible reputation for shitty sales tactics?

I mean, basically all dealers are fucking horrible, but it seems that Kia dealers are next level.

what gives?

The first-gen Corvair was mostly a fine car, mostly, except for a couple minor issues everyone mostly forgot about (big /S). But a gorgeous rear-engined coupe with IRS in the mid’60's, that was still well-attainable? Huge improvement.

SW20 MR2 all day

FRS/BRZ isn’t a great answer, IMO, because it’s mostly a refresh and the original car was already pretty fucking great.

A car blog located in a dense urban area that is hostile to car ownership. Brilliant.

...all the blowhards down there, yes, we know.

Meanwhile, it’s fine to bark at your cat, because they already loathe you on a level you can’t even comprehend.

And if your pet has a traumatic background, you can unwittingly (pun intended, and not kindly) trigger a response where your pet attacks you and hurts you badly. And who do you think is going to get the blame? Not you. “I just stuck my face in his and barked loudly while he was sleeping and he jumped four feet in the…

The entire trend of videos that are “fuck with your pet by doing X” needs to die. Some of the things are harmless but all of them encourage the attitude that pets are entertainment instead of responsibility.

I’ve never really understood the whole ‘suck my d**k’ thing from a chick.

You put one of ours on a bike, we put one of yours on a suitcase. That’s the Orlando Way.

Well, technically human waste is a biohazard. So you need to decontaminate the back of the car or just replace the seats. Let’s say we go with the decontamination idea first. How much would you charge to clean a shit covered cop car and properly dispose of the waste you just generated?

I use wax paper for this purpose.