The dealerships need to employ secret shoppers like other industries do.

I spent 7+ years working at McDonald’s, and we lived in constant fear of “the shopper”. We were a franchise store, but we could get royally screwed by corporate if we got shopped and didn’t meet our criteria. It happened a few times. Managers were…

1st Gear:

I have cash, and stand ready to buy one or more bad purchases people made. Maybe a Tahoe, or Navigator, or an Stinger, or some AMG coupe. Really anything, I'm game. Unfortunately, with the loans people are taking, they're likely to be so upside-down that no one like me can buy at a reasonable price. 

My prediction:

Why are we comparing gas prices to a year ago, when demand was still wildly depressed by the pandemic? Saying they are up a dollar from a time off unnaturally low demand feels more than a tad disingenuous. We are still far below what was the norm for a lot of the past 15 years or so, inflation adjusted.

These actions aren’t exclusive to the EV6, Kia dealers are always trying to pull this crap.

These actions aren’t exclusive to the EV6, Kia dealers are always trying to pull this crap.

Alternate headline: Market continues to confirm Alfa Romeo has most overpriced MSRP of any brand.

Anyone know if reliability has improved since Car and Driver (?) had theirs? I know they had a laundry list of issues during the long term test period. 

I think this is more a recognition that their vehicles are overpriced.

That’s becasue you haven’t. Seen a peaceful protest, that is.

About fucking time!

I’m all for the police arresting the protestors at this point, but this:

Good. Long overdue. I hope something other than their feelings gets hurt.

Only because it’s incomplete and misinterpreted. The customer is always right about what they believe the problem is.

Probably the dealing with assholes, drunks, and drunken assholes, especially if any of them feel the need to get “hands on” with ladies that are working.

You’re not wrong, but this is Modern Era Jalopnik. Bad takes abound and journalism doesn’t matter.

It started as a glamorous job, back in the fifties and sixties, but it started slipping not long after, and by the end of the eighties, certainly early nineties, it had flipped from merely utilitarian to fully dystopian.

I don’t want to denigrate anyone’s dreams, although I don’t think the reality of being a flight attendant has ever been that glamourous - how many airports (and the surrounding area) are places you particularly want to be? Weird hours, not enough time to actually see the places you’re supposed to be visiting, you’re…