If you really really want a TDI, and you’re 100% willing to pay an extra $2000 to make sure that you get one, why shouldn’t you be allowed to do so?

I get it that you don’t like the way a free market works, but it’s a simple matter of supply and demand.

When you have more demand than supply, you either raise the price…

Indeed, but people who want a new TDI want a new TDI, and there is a limited stock that will never be replenished.

As I said in that post, we’ve got deposits down on a quarter of our inventory within 1 week of opening for the possibility of sale.

We in service are having to fight sales and tell them “You are NOT allowed…

I stand corrected.

That is simply fascinating that Toyota granted dealership licenses to Carmax.

What are you supposed to do when you have 20 people in line who all want to buy an item you only have 10 of?

Simple market rules gives you 3 options:

You did the right thing by walking away.

That salesperson lied to you. That wasn’t a new car, otherwise it wouldn’t be at Carmax.

Carmax can’t sell new cars. They don’t have a contract with any manufacturer. They can sell “like new” cars with a great warranty, but they’re not legally allowed to sell a “new” car.

The warranty starts the day it’s first put into service, and being as these cars have been dealer inventory for 2+ years, the warranty is in fact going to start the day you buy it.

Copy/paste from another post of mine, but here is the answer from a VW service department in the process of reconditioning the vehicles for sale:

With all the demand for “the very last new TDI’s ever sold in the USA”, I’m actually surprised that there isn’t a market value adjustment markup.

Our dealership is selling them at full MSRP, and we sold 10 in the first week. We’re actually having a hard time refurbishing them from 2 years of storage fast enough.

With…

That is an outright falsehood.

Where in the world did you hear that tripe?

They’re actually going to be coming with full factory warranty, plus an additional, extremely extended warranty on the emissions components that will be replaced during the second part of the fix.

Source: I am a service adviser at a VW Dealership,…

But they do not. They only continue to burn when they are so covered with oil, fuel, and other hydrocarbons that they reach a failure point.

A catalytic converter, once warmed up, can absolutely be disconnected and fed a stream of cold air, and it will continue to burn and heat up.

So long as that air has fuel in it.

It is clearly demonstrated in the following video, if you’ll notice it is continuing to glow when fed a steady stream of propane fuel:

The answer to that is because ideally, the catalytic converter isn’t doing much work at all.

The cat does indeed require heat to do its job, but once it’s up to temperature, it also produces heat from the flameless burning of waste HC.

If, however, your O2 sensor is doing its job, and your car has an ideal…

Anybody else notice that that is actually the VIN?

The Vulcan is such a specialty vehicle that the actual VIN says VULCAN in the “model ID” section.

I’m not allowed to share any citations for that, as that is “insider information”.

Source: I am a service advisor at a VW dealership.

No, VW has to either fix, or buy back 85% of cars.

They can’t force you to do the buy back, so they have to offer a fix for all cars.

Because it’s against the law for them to force you to sell your personal property.

You can’t claim “imminent domain” on a car.

You don’t *have* to sell your car. It’s your car. So they need to offer an option to people who want to keep their car.

You only get your money after it’s fixed in order to ensure that it’s being fixed. That way you can’t “take the money and run”.
 
There is a fix for all 2.0L TDI cars that is in the process of being CARB certified. The 2015's aren’t the only ones with a fix, they’re just the first ones to have their fix approved.

VW has…

There is a fix for all 2.0L TDI cars that is in the process of being CARB certified. The 2015's aren’t the only ones with a fix, they’re just the first ones to have their fix approved.

VW has to fix or buy back 85% of all TDI’s by the end of 2018, or face penalties of something like fifty grand per car under 85%.

It…

There is a fix for all 2.0L TDI cars that is in the process of being CARB certified. The 2015's aren’t the only ones with a fix, they’re just the first ones to have their fix approved.

VW has to fix or buy back 85% of all TDI’s by the end of 2018, or face penalties of something like fifty grand per car under 85%.

It…

There is a fix for all 2.0L TDI cars that is in the process of being CARB certified. The 2015's aren’t the only ones with a fix, they’re just the first ones to have their fix approved.

VW has to fix or buy back 85% of all TDI’s by the end of 2018, or face penalties of something like fifty grand per car under 85%.

It…