Sigh. Damn your correct takes. Star.

Right? They somehow have time to spend on dumb shit like this, but the rear bumpers fill up with water, roofs fly off, etc.? Ford may shit up every release they do, but at least they don’t shit up every release AND spend a bunch of time fucking around.

Are we sure that the cars aren’t just mis-hearing their owners?

I was about to say this. We had the bubble Taurus. Best family sedan I had ever encountered. It did 135 thousand miles before the transmission blew.

Maybe my Mom’s late 90's Taurus was the exception, but that fucking bubble mobile would never die. It must have been the pinnacle of Ford manufacturing for that year. It literally went almost 300k miles with almost zero serious issues. I hated that car but was honestly kinda sad when she eventually traded it in.

This American Life did an episode about the numbers games that dealerships and sales people play with manufacturers. They don’t really care if the car comes back either. Sometimes they just need those quotas up enough to qualify for the bonuses and manufacturer incentives. If the car comes back, the numbers still get…

As someone else noted, sending someone off without an absolute approval is common. Especially, like in the instance of my mom, if the deal is being done on a Friday or weekend. If they really want to get that “sale” they’ll send the customer off by convincing them everything is fine while waiting until the next…

This sounds horrible. My question is how or why did they send her down the road in the Sebring without credit approval?

“The experience soured her on Chrysler products”  They did her a favor with this generation Chrysler.

So sorry to hear about that awful experience your mom had, but I’m happy that she won her case and made them look like the fools they were. I worked in sales at a dealership for 2 years, and being up close with salespeople I can tell you that they are the most 2 faced people you’ll ever meet. Acting cordial and nice…

I would say the backlit instrument cluster paired with DRLs. I've seen quite a few idiots driving on the freeway like this. They have just enough light to see, and have no clue that they're invisible to someone approaching them.

My last Mini had it, and I thought it worked great. Set fan to Auto, set temp to whatever, leave alone. If I’m really melting in the summer, maybe turn the fan up higher for a bit, but for 90% of the time, I could set it and forget it.

I second the Super Duty headlights, but only the low-trim models. The high-trim LED projectors are not nearly as bad. When they first came out, I was convinced that everyone was driving around with their brights on. Nope, it’s just the headlights are higher than the roof of my car, so the low beams are aimed right…

It’s a nice little convenience feature. There is nothing wrong with using a key. It’s hard to deny that push button start is just easier.

Old people have difficulty turning a key in an ignition. The wrist motion needed is more difficult for them. Since they’re the ones spending money on new cars, they get pandered to

I removed the dedicated secondary stop start battery to get around this. There, system permanently disabled. I am not saving gas in my 650hp Jag supercharged V8 by having it turn off for 20 seconds at a light lol.

But, don’t forget, it doesn’t wear down your starter any faster!

Start/Stop technology, and the inability to permanently turn it off.  You have to disable it every time you drive your car (at least on Toyotas).  It is annoying as fuck and I’m not getting any better gas mileage than my old car of the same model without the “feature”.

putting the volume and ac controls on a stupid ass screen. 

The lack of visibility. That seems to be widespread but isn’t really a feature. I have to crane my neck to see around my rear view mirror and all the sensors when going around on-ramps.