I have a reservation for the Lightning and I’ve contacted my dealer multiple times and I still haven’t even seen an options list with prices. I was told I’ll have to wait until 10/26 when the order books supposedly open up, which is insane. And I still haven’t gotten my dealer to put in writing that they won’t charge…

At the same time, why does everything have to come down to legality and signed agreements for things like this. Shouldn’t a well functioning system be easy to navigate, transparent, and not rely on having to protect yourself all the time?  An ideal system here should be relatively “frictionless” so to speak.

Obviously these type of dealership do not believe in long term relationship. They will be the first one to cry over direct selling model like Tesla, which hopefully become more popular down the road.

Yep, I know that I’ll probably get my reservation filled at a later date than most everyone else since I went with the small dealer in WV.

Asked my sales guy yesterday about this. Said they sell at MSRP and usually don’t get anything in writing, but could get something in writing if I wanted.

But profits. Sure, I mean, it’s bad for the global economy and whatever, but what about next quarter? THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

I bought a new car in May, right when trade-in prices were starting to climb but there was still enough inventory on the lot to have a choice of what I was getting. I’m so glad I didn’t dawdle.

You have the sales vs finance asshole all wrong and reversed.

I think salespeople are extremely useful. But I think what we have at car dealers aren’t sales people. Or maybe they are, but then that’s not what’s needed. Salespeople now are just supply movers. And they’re incentivized simply to move as much product as possible, in the worst way possible, because if they don’t they…

To be fair, the salesperson I dealt with last year was excellent. He knew enough about the vehicle I wanted to be modestly helpful and did all the legwork for me to find the right car, within budget.

Sales people are not superfluous, but many do not know their role nor are trained for their role, which is to help people first, “upsell” second.

You seem to be under the impression that the department doesn’t have an entire staff of career bureaucrats whose job it is to do the actual work of the department.

Fortunately, he also knows how to delegate to the Deputy Secretary, and stayed in touch for the most urgent needs. Did you expect it to implode without him being at his desk each day?

You might be the only person who doesn’t like the dash of the new Civic. You’re not wrong about the dash insert having a vaguely 1950's look to it, but what is wrong with that? There were some really incredible designs in the 1950's. Things that today’s best designers draw inspiration from all the time.

Besides the tablet sticking out, I really like the rest of it...

That’s a fairly typical application of the polyurethane based sealants used on most RV roofs (e.g. Dicor). It isn’t meant to be pretty, it’s meant to work.

Oh absolutely.  my guess is that he just ran over someone more important and now the DA has to act to try and save the situation - and his own ass.

Waller is adjacent to Harris county. Yes, that Harris county with 8m people. Waller looks Rural, but there are some very rich, high powered cyclists with Equestrian properties (I know a few who own 10k road bikes and F250s), who commute to their $1000 an hour oil and gas lawyer gigs from Waller. This is going to be a…

In a statement to the press, Waller Sheriff Rosco P. Coletrane stated that the youth was quite simply a “good ol boy”, and furthermore “wasn’t meanin’ no harm”.

And you won’t find that evidence. No one is sending texts or making calls in real time to stuff this under the rug. The cops saw the kid’s ID, figured out who daddy/mommy is and knew immediately to go into damage control mode, no direction needed.