Based on their inability to effectively manage straightforward communications, I don’t think we need to worry just yet.

Well, you know what they say — fast, cheap, good, pick any two.

You want to make the imbalance of power between consumers and a huge industry whose barriers to entry only get higher and which continues to consolidate into fewer larger players worse?

I have little patience for the person who complains that all cars on the dealer lot are the same... and then buys one off the lot instead of ordering something more interesting.

Do you mean more interesting models are priced too high? Or more interesting colors and options are priced too high?

Just In Time is impractical because manufacturers like assembly plants to run at a consistent rate but retail sales are seasonal. Dealers’ inventories provide the industry with needed slack.

Manufacturers don’t want to carry that much inventory.

The good news is that with the death of color and the paucity of interior choices, your needs can be met with smaller inventories.

Those dealers are the worst junk-mail offenders too. What I found amusing was their boilerplate “let me know if there is anything I can do...” o.O

It simplifies dealer inventory too.

Variety only matters to weirdos who don’t want the most popular configurations :)

How are people mystified by the effectiveness of these ads, or by the things people will say in these clinics?

You really shouldn’t have stopped reading.

I believe you pay sales tax in the purchase state, and then if your home state’s tax rate is higher, you pay the difference. So your home state loses tax revenue. That’s how it was for me buying a car in TN living in CA.

Scientists aren’t in charge of things.

Have you written a piece on the nuts and bolts of having a used car inspected by an independent and trusted mechanic before buying it? It’s daunting advice.

Tesla’s definition of Production is “a car traversed the production line and was exchanged for a form of money with a person we shall call a ‘customer.’”

I don’t know. I think they’re at least as interested in screwing the rest of us as they are in screwing President Obama.

They’d like to remove their exemption, because they have means and don’t need it.

Next best thing to being born to wealth is sucking up to it.