It doesn’t matter, man or woman. What DOES matter is how you present yourself. This process, like it or not, is about power. If your salesperson sees you as a limp fish and they can lead you around to whatever car they like, and generally make you do what they want rather than what you want, that’s your recipe for…

It’s not about being an asshole, so don’t worry there. Although it does cause salespeople to have to work a little harder and make a little less, we do understand the need of a customer who doesn’t do this every day to make sure what they’re paying is reasonable. We don’t begrudge people for shopping around, we expect…

I guess I’m missing where we get the bad reputation, or why you’re so in a fit of rage that you can barely maintain the boundaries of a paragraph.

Talking numbers, in this sense, means an explicit conversation about what number a customer would purchase a car at, not just talking about what the price is. If you enter into a real negotiation and then just pull out even though we’re working with you because you were really just fishing for info to shop around,…

I would say a few things:

I get what you’re trying to say throughout this conversation, but it just doesn’t make any sense. First, I think S&M would have, and did have, plenty in the budget for advertising to the audience who would have purchased the game (ie 3DS owners) without this whole F2P thing. Second, I think Pokemon brand is plenty hot…

I know a lot about clockmaking. I was was a watchmaker for about 10 years. This assemblage of parts in the movement (I don’t give a shit about the case), is unique to this watch and, while providing a time telling function like many others, is doing it in an absurdly complex, beautiful, and imaginative way. The actual…

It also has a circuit board in it that couldn’t be less unceremoniously stamped into a billion others just like it if the Chinese infant who assembled it was 3 years younger. Your watch is a commodity. A useful one, sure, but little more than metal and plastic.

This segment of watches is intended precisely to be the one place where no restraint has to be shown. This is the Riddler award, or the McLaren F1 moment, for watches. What could we do if we could do anything? This is the place where we do thing we said we couldn’t do last year, and I think that’s pretty wonderful.

I think the point being pondered here is the question, “at this point, does it matter if we have an objective measure of performance?” I mean, we’re talking about cars that are running to 60 in less than 3 seconds, with hundredths of a second between them. These are ridiculous figures. 40-50 years ago, a performance…

I would say I’d agree with the article for the primary reason that when 0-60 times truly mattered to the public, the evolution of the road car and the ICE was still very much in full swing. We, as a car buying species, were mostly concerned with getting there, and if we could, getting there so fast it made our pants…

No, I’ll just stick with the products that make me money and aren’t crap

Like all modern RPG, western or otherwise, 10 hours in is really tantamount to having pressed start on the title screen. You don’t know what the world is about, what’s really at stake, who the characters are and why you should care, who you are as a player, you have little to no ability...you have no investment in the…

They don’t. No one buys these from us. We actually just recently sold an orange 2014 that we still had from brand new for like an 8k loss. No one cares about this car because it’s dogshit. You would have to have some kind of head injury not to buy an MX5 if you’re in this market.

I’m sorry, but I’ve never understood the draw of the FRS/BRZ/86/whatthefuckever. It’s slow, doesn’t sound good, rides like a skateboard, the interior is creaky plastic garbage, the body is about as meh as I’ve ever seen a sports minded car be...it just doesn’t do anything at all for me.

It always confuses me, and especially did as a Scion sales manager, why any car company thinks it matters what 12 year olds do. Or really almost any company for that matter. These are the kids that live online and value this kind of random shit in a hypothetical automobile, and the reason is because they don’t have…

Enough to get them to stop building the Previa they’re currently selling.

I have no idea how the reception of the Hybrid Stang will go...honestly, the hideous v6 shitboxes I see running around regularly tells me that as long as it has a horse it should sell ok....

I was lucky enough to have parents who could afford to buy me a new car as my first car, but I suppose they lucked out as well with a totally car obsessed child. I cared for that thing like it was my first born.

They look like tacky aftermarket shit because tacky aftermarket shit companies want their wheels to look like these legit 3 piece wheels. It’s not tacky when you have the genuine article.