My kid has been telling me she is learning all kinds of horrors that the cruise industry does to small local businesses in the ports of call. like the cruise linds own “local” businesses and actually push out small mom and pop stores and businesses. along with all other kinds of horrors. let them go bankrupt and sell…

totally ! that supports what I am saying the system is broken.

your story very much supports my point. thanks

Could it be that people are overconfident and think that they are better at haggling than they are just like everyone thinks that they are above average. dealers know what they will sell the car for. you all just like the game.

good. I use to play rally games and love the actual in car view.

if it were a productive 2 hours where I was engaged in doing something then yes when it is 2 hours that is 1:50 of sitting around then streamline stuff.

Is there an first person view or do you have to look at your atv from top and behind unlike real life.

it is like jc pennys getting rid of high prices and coupons to lower prices and coupons nearly ended them because people want to feel like they are getting a better deal. haggling just makes people feel better if it is not actually effective.

why is that bad? if prices rise people will buy used.

and used.

yes only 2 becasue i am a middle class white guy.

back in 1987 i was helping a friend fix an old lebaron and on a junkyard run we got a lebaron hood in the back seat of my ‘69 2dr galaxie. had we been in an accident that hood would have decapitated us.

I understand that the 2 most expensive things an average family buys are cars and homes but the fact is that you have to haggle for the price for these just sucks. I don’t haggle with best buy on computers and refrigerators. there is some relationship with haggling over prices and the prices increasing faster than…

and NO HAGGLE PRICING!!!!!!

yes, I hate that it takes 2 hrs to buy a car at a dealership including the mandatory office to upgrade and upsell you on stuff.

Jalopnik commenters’ dreams: no new car sales. everyone forced to buy used cars.

My first car radio (when i was 16 and got my grandmothers old car) was a small boom box cassette player that took a bunch of D batteries and it sat on the bench seat next to me and my Opus stuffed animal. the AM in dash radio in my 1969 Galaxie stopped working when I was like 3 years old.

Off roading for over 25 years and i have never needed one because when in a technically challenging situation my eyes are on the obstacles around me and my spotter. my spotter will let me know things that I do not have time to look at an inclinometer.

I wish I had rich parents so I could #VanLife.

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