This..... my 2013 MKZ is perfectly servicable, but the Sync3 systems sucks. Does Ford/Lincoln offer an upgrade to sync 3? Nope. Ok - so I upgrade/replace myself because it’s easy enough DIY. But now the my touch crap for all radio/hvac controls sucks. They fixed it in 17 with actual knobs/levers for HVAC/radio…

A big part of the sales training these dealerships bring in involves the concept of grinding, and it is pretty much the method of choice for commissioned sales. We recently went out looking for quotes for siding on our house. The whole thing went like this:

“Then they have to tell you how bad your purchase is and the manufacturer’s warranty isn’t good enough to cover the catastrophic failures you’re going to experience in the future.”

Question 1. My last new car was a dealer that was famous for pulling every trick in the book. Horrible place, but they had the vehicle I wanted and we had to deal with them. Finally after hours, we got into the Finance guy’s office. We sat down, and he starts his up sell spiel, just as my youngest decided to see if…

On the “certified” thing, I bought my current vehicle, a 2017 Infiniti Q60, CPO. Not even a week later, I started noticing some flickering in the driver side headlight. A few weeks after that as it got worse, I took it back to the same dealer to check it out.

This sounds like any microsoft application. 

Imagine you are buying something on an e-commerce site, and in order to get to your shopping cart to complete your order, you are presented with multiple intervening pages of upsell content, each of which take up to a minute to render, another minute for the “no-thanks” button (or microscopic link shown in a shade of…

Generally speaking, most people don’t like conflict - and view dealing with car salespeople as a version of that. 

I find it kind of sad that the F&I guy won’t just accept “No”, and has to continue with higher and higher pressure tactics to try to get you to agree.

He’s right though. It doesn’t look that dirty at all. 

Better lock that up before David Tracy sees it.

Happier, better handling, better acceleration, quieter, more fuel efficient, and the speakers sound better. This is scientifically true.

How many of you feel like your car drives happier when it's clean?

Oh no! You might have the *option* to buy an electric vehicle! You might have the *option* to produce your own power with solar on your house. You might have cheaper cleaner electricity from your utility!

Or, as per the actual article, there needs to be more alternatives, especially in places like cities where driving is inefficient and annoying.

How do I get one of those tin foil MAGA hats?

That’s actually insane. The recovery was slowed by the Republicans dragging their feet, especially after 2010 when their espoused goal was to stop Obama from being re-elected at any cost. Not by Obama not understanding what should be done.

I do not agree with either political party as they primarily care about staying in power, no matter the cost to the American citizen. Having said this, you are either a troll or ignorant to call Obama “the most economically illiterate President in the history of our country”.

Hahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahaha. . . oh wait, you seriously believe that?

Trump has taken the title for the most illiterate POTUS in history for any given topic outside of “being a grifter”.