Most of the time the “30 minute talk” isn’t intentional. The salesman has to wait in line behind every other salesman trying to work a deal. Sometimes the managers are too busy looking at YouTube videos to help the salesman, and just make them sit there and wait. 

So the idea is to pay $1200 for the opportunity to pay thousands more in repair bills? Couldn’t you just pay the $1200 to have someone punch you in the face a bunch of times?

This is a good point. There’s probably plenty of TP in every closed office building.

“I’ll come back” is the start of the extra squeeze, because the salesman already knows that you aren’t coming back.

Dealers don’t pay interest on the loans right away. They typically get 60-90 days to sell a car before they have to start paying interest on it. That’s why they push so hard to sell certain cars. You could have 2 identical cars, one that’s been there 3 days, another that’s been their 95 days. The dealer will always…

Tesla can get away with their casual approach to selling cars because they have no real competition. They are still in the honeymoon phase where everyone who shows up at a Tesla store is predisposed to want one. Legacy brands that have actual competition know that if you don’t buy a car from them RIGHT NOW, there is…

Didn’t GM tell us that they lose $20k per $59,995 C8? Not much motivation for them to produce a lot of them.

This “audit” thing is a bunch of BS. How many customers can they pull that stunt on? It’s not like they are doing a monthly audit of every vehicle they’ve ever sold. That would be insane. So that’s just the excuse they use to try and gouge the used vehicle buyer. The problem with these software upgrades is that they…

It’s really time to restore the prohibition on stock buybacks. Just like the democrats warned the corporate tax cuts of 2 years ago all went to buybacks, and since borrowing was so cheap, many corporations also took on debt to do buybacks - enriching the executives but weakening the companies. The airlines have spent…

My brain literally locked up. I just sat there, mouth wide open, unable to form words.

I have never watched this show in my life, but I was so bored last night I watched it. I can’t believe people have watched this show for so many years. Fake drama, obviously rehearsed lines, gimmicky plot twists from the producers. 

Well, you’re not getting a new Fiesta ST. But is there any chance that we get the Puma from Europe as the new Ecosport, or as a new model alongside a new Ecosport? 

Here we go again. An unattended prototype vehicle. Can we get an interior shot? Nope. And why are all spy photos taken with flip phone cameras?

I was thinking something similar. Even if they do discover some sort of civilization out there, the radio waves or light waves would’ve travelled hundreds or thousands of years to get here. Other than “that’s cool,” I’m not sure of the value of knowing that a civilization used to exist out there. I still want to know,…

I love spy photos, but I always wonder why they are blurry and omit obvious points of interest. The person who shot these Bronco pics clearly had total access, but we only get to very close up photos that don’t show much. How about the front end? Interior? Nope. 

My heating oil was $.60 per gallon cheaper today than it was in early January. But the price of gas in my area has only dropped $.10 per gallon

Why do criminal justice reforms never include educational opportunities for people while they are incarcerated? We’ve got millions of people sitting in jails twiddling their thumbs. They come out just as undereducated as they went in, but now hardened by their time in jail. What are we accomplishing by sending people…

Let’s start at the bottom of the list: over $4T in spending on housing, medical debt relief and universal childcare with no revenue source listed.

She just comes across as a phony. Whether it is her pretending to be Native American for decades - with no good explanation as to why, or her flip flops on Medicare for All, or her snakey move to try and paint Bernie as a sexist, or her lame “I like a beer” kitchen videos, or her down home smarmy stories about her…

There are already numerous mandating signs that dealers post, from an explanation of the document fee to the hourly rate for the service department. I sold cars for 7 years, and yeah, I suggested the voluntary repossession idea a few times. The problem with it is that customers buy cars so infrequently that they can’t…