CarMax once offered me $13,000 for my 2011 Sonata SE that I later got my boss at the Hyundai dealer to give me $18,500 for, so, yeah, CarMax is a bit low on their offers lol. (No, my boss didn’t hammer me on the other end, I knew the invoice, holdback, rebates, dealer cash etc on the car I ended up buying next.)

My experience is that Hyundaidealers and their sales staff DON’T WANT TO SELL the Genesis and Equus. They roll their eyes and run at the customers who come in looking at those cars, knowing that most of them will just be too conformist to actually buy one, and end up in an Audi instead. The salesmen would much rather…

It is amazing to look at some of these designs and think that somewhere in a boardroom, some manager said “Yes! That’s the one! Let’s make it!”

Toyota has officially turned into GM. Endlessly replacing the grills on ancient vehicle designs.

You basically got the ultimate burn to your ego: total disinterest. Take that self back patter.

One the other side of the table, I went out to eat with a friend of mine, and he ordered a grilled chicken sandwich with only bacon and cheese. The waitress actually brought out a sandwich that was the sandwich bun with only bacon and cheese in it - no chicken...

This is all 100% true. In most states the dealership charges some sort of dealer conveyance fee which is also pure profit for the owner. So if the PAC is $900 and the conveyance fee is $399, the dealer is making $1299 on the car before the salesman can start calculating the commission. Most times when the dealer is…

Thanks for that great explanation for everyone. I took the photos for a car dealership for years, and had to manually correct the transmission on vehicles I posted online on a daily basis. The dealerships gain nothing by mislabelling automatics as manuals since most people want automatics. Potential sales are being…

Hyundai Elantra GT R-Spec with a 2.0T

I refuse to get excited about Alfa. Been waiting 25 years through all the plans that were always a couple years away.

I needed a trigger warning before I could read this?!

The first thing you need to do is lower your expectations. I can’t count how many times credit challenged customers would come in and have a ridiculous list of wants - leather, navigation, German brand, etc. No, to get you financed, we need a newer (but not new) car that is cheap for you to buy, yet has a book value…

Well, for the Edge, it was named back in the day when Ford had the bright idea to have all its car names start with F (Focus, Fusion, Five Hundred) and its SUV’s start with E (Edge, Explorer, Expedition). And it had that Gillette razor looking grill, so I guess there’s that too.

Some suggestions about internet car shopping:

You do need to keep in mind, especially for the more heinous cars like the Dodge Avenger or Mitsubishi Gaksnt that the drivers in all likelihood have bad credit and that's the only car the bank would let them buy. Therefore they should be pitied, not scorned

Configurators are bs and give people false hope. No cars except exotics are built to order, so the chances of you finding the exact car you just built are pretty much zero.

Sounds like she got an idiot car salesman that couldn’t differentiate between a legitimate customer and a joy rider. Sucks for him. Probably not very successful.

What, no Kansas City? A series of semi-circle terminals with glass walled prison like gates that each have their own security. Bathroom? Go through security again. Ford? Go through security again. And the whole place is unpainted concrete.

The middle of the market cars have gotten so good, and are packed with so many features, there really isn't a strong enough justification to spend the extra $10-20,000 to get the luxury brand. They depreciate faster, break more often, and more expensive to service, and don't do anything substantially better than…

Here's one for you, Connecticut has a tough new anti-drunk driving law. For you first blow over .08 (whether you are convicted or not) the DMV suspends your license for 45 days. Then, assuming you are convicted, you are forced to install a breathalyzer in your car for 1 year. The breathalyzer is where it gets…