Customer: “But I made a reservation”
Dealer: “reservation was cancelled, so we can make more money”

Problem: Reservations cannot be marked up
Solution: Cancel the reservations

I have a feeling priced on the 458s are going to go up once Ferrari drops the charades of the 296 not being the replacement for the F8. Future of Ferrari is V6 hybrid unfortunately. Hard pass.

“What’s an acre?”
--NYC residents

I saw my first C8 on the highway yesterday. I wanted to like the car but it just has too many unfortunate angles. I wish GM had taken more of a rounder, organic design approach instead of the one with sharp edges with lots of creases. Maybe the C9 then? 

$175,000 for a Chevy.

who the hell hoons a 12 year-old, four cylinder wagon?

Too much BMW as well.

My wife was looking for a new car at the top of the year and the Acura RDX was in play. What turned her off was that idiotic mousepad interface thing. But she liked the rest of it, and I liked it well enough even though it was underpowered IMO.

I think this is a classic intersection of Engineering and Marketing.

This sounds like a good engineering practice. While they might not reuse the entire cluster they may want to reuse just that plastic piece. Adding the unused symbol is likely free/very cheap vs just the cost of engineering hours to add a new configuration of the same thing with it, and maintaining two parts numbers.…

“The Land Cruiser rides on a new platform called GA-F.”

^^^This. So much this. I live in San Diego, and over the past 20 years my neighborhood has gone from a “somewhat sketch” area to being a focus of Sunset Magazine and NYT articles re how cool and chic it’s become, walkable restaurants, breweries, galleries, cafes, etc. Now I get cold-calls, texts, post-it-notes,…

The system is so complex that the dealership is unaware of the price for the car?

If over the course of several hundred deals thoughout the year MOST dealers get it right and have no problem sending out the door prices, even on out of state deals...the problem is not the “complexitity of the system” if a FL dealer refuses to send a quote for a Florida customer, especially when their competiton can…

Those jerks tried to circle him looking all hard, but his vigorous pumping and spraying all over the place got them off as fast as possible.

“This is great news for all the people lining up to buy CT4s, CT5s, and Camaros.”

The engines at least give the cars a character of their own.

Wack. Can’t wait for a bunch of soulless supercars with performance that’s indiscernible from one another.

The only delights in the Supercars will be their styling and their race-track behavior, not that anyone takes their million dollar cars to the race-track.