Agreed, don’t try to hide or make it something that it isn’t. Though there are some leather grained, fake stitched plastic that has looked ok in my eyes, though those came in much more expensive cars.

A lot of people don’t seem to get Best/Worst car. The slash and reading the article means, its one car that is both awesome and sucks all at the same time. Pretty simple really.

That’s precisely what a dealer told me - new car warranty and emissions warranty ++ for hardware installs in about a year. And VW will pay for an extensive reconditioning of the vehicle from when they were grounded — new filters (all), new wipers, new tires if there’s cracking or flat spots — a very stringent…

“What were you thinking? You could have been robbed!”

They are marking them up $3k above MSRP in Utah.

Now if it is a product and or service that is legitimately needed and you raise the price that is price gouging. HUGE fines! Actually put one of my retail tenants out of business for being a scum bag after Sandy

If you price it at $200k more than it’s worth and you get a buyer. Guess what, it’s not priced at $200k over. It’s priced at what the market demands. No greed here. No one is forcing anyone to buy anything.

And if the “sucker” pays MSRP+$2000, and is happy with the transaction. What is the problem?

“If you think any car that’s been sitting for 2 years is worthy of a markup, you are not living in reality.”

A sucker? Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say “someone who really likes VW TDIs and paying an amount that they are not being forced to pay”?

I mean I hate car dealers too but not because they want to sell their cars at market price. If it is true that at his dealership the demand is vastly larger than their supply his comment is exactly true. A car dealership is a business, not a charity. They shouldn’t give up margins just because something totally out of…

Which is why you just raise it enough to scare off the excess demand.

I fucking hate sales for how shady they get with that stuff. I probably have close to 20 accessory parts sitting back here for cars that are long gone because sales can’t wait the three days it takes us to inventory, PDI, and detail the damn thing.

Are TDIs so popular that people are willing to pay full sticker for a 2 year old car?

With all due respect, you are wrong about heating of a catalyst and the pressure drop across a catalytic converter.
For the cat to create enough restriction to cause that much heating (the mechanism of which would have to be frictional or something, because causing pressure drop of a gas across an operation will reduce…

No, the oxidation reactions in a catalyst are exothermic. They do “create heat.”

Patrick, You’re an idiot. And a hypocritical one at that.

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You know it wasn’t a Mustang because it turned away from the pedestrians.

Car fuel can melt steel beams!