Gimmi. I must ask... I know you are retired buy what did you do for a living? I see you know people at Mclaren and such, and here is a steering wheel from F1 you worked on? I must know since it pretty much will decide if I bow down to you or not.
Gimmi. I must ask... I know you are retired buy what did you do for a living? I see you know people at Mclaren and such, and here is a steering wheel from F1 you worked on? I must know since it pretty much will decide if I bow down to you or not.
With a couple of exceptions that's a pretty damn sweet collection!
With the color being BRG, I almost like the FF...
Agreed...
Eh, it's still a love of cars to a degree. Therefore at least slightly jalop.
No worries Justin. I'm not here for the atta-boys.
That's even worse.
Been through it millions of times. The first time it ever happened I got in trouble for laughing in the customers face... I'm an asshole, I know. For this job, though, you sort of have to be.
Let me guess... you work for BMW? Aside from your name, while I was a service advisor I had short stint at Bimmer and that sounds much like how they work.
Yup. I'm a used car manager at a Ford store, worked for many brands over the years. Had 7 jobs for this company in the last 4 years! Best part I've broken records at 6 of 'em. Chasing records is my favorite part of the job.
Exactly. Everything in the automotive world is policed to such an extent that we can't just "screw people over" anymore. We would get caught almost immediately.
Shhhhh I'm being a troll.... J/K I usually ask that question to people who are whining about opinion based stuff, then I find out they actually like some cool stuff. Who knows. I tend to like to ask questions that can appear to be sarcastic and pissy, even tho I don't generally mean it.
From being a former service advisor for years and still in the auto business, my favorite thing is when a customer would come to my counter and say,
No. The invoice can't be edited. What you might be talking about is "hold-back". It is a small area on the bottom of the page in the corner usually with no dollar sign, or label. For instance on a new Fiesta at my dealership, there is about $500 of actual markup between the invoice amount and MSRP. There is an…
Why are you here then?
I put this in #tips like 2 months ago...
Love TG magazine. Quite true, tho that it is insanely priced. I buy it once in great while. This tho, will be an issue that I will gladly pass up. The FF just doesn't do it for me one bit. Pity since I am a big fan of shooting brakes...
And you agknowledge the existence of jalopnik?
Yes. Also....
Whats wrong with boost?