I got bullshit form the service departments also. Had one tell me that I needed new tires after 10k miles. When I asked him why, he asked me if I drove city or highway. I said I mostly drove city. He then went on a 5 3-5 minute bullshit story about “city tires” vs “highway tires”.

I totally think the vast majority of dealers are at best sleazy and realistically somewhere between scummy and shit stains; but dealer invoice can often be pretty far off the dealer’s actual cost of just the vehicle. They often get incentives to further bring that cost down after you factor in things like volume kick…

> only about one-third of Americans have actually experienced things like deceptive selling, hidden fees and dishonest salespeople at dealerships

They fact that they actually used the phrase “ONLY about one third” in reference to attempts to be defrauded by car dealers blows my mind. Terrible writing terrible angle.

Lets say you have 10 friends that go on vacation to a city. One day, they all go out to eat at different street vendors. 3 of your friends tell you about how they got food poisoning. You are now traveling to that city on business...do you get food from a street vendor? its only 1 in 3? It doesn’t take much actual…

Want to fix all this? Create a one page sheet that shows MSRP, dealer invoice price and customer price. Then include all fees and taxes added as a result of the dealer customer price.

How fucking pathetic on so many levels. Its outright pathetic that somehow that fat fuck is yet again running for president. Its pathetic that millions of Americans still support and will vote for him. Its pathetic how batshit insane the Republican party has become- and I say that as someone who is not exactly…

Finally, an electric car for us assholes!

This adds nothing to the conversation, but the whole Chesa Boudin saga has been exceedingly weird to me as a non-Californian viewer because I met the guy for a week in 2014 on the other side of the world. His old boss knew my then-current boss, and asked me to show him around town for the week. It was sort of…

A bunch of assholes ruining driving for the rest of us.

Next up Jewish and Muslim drivers denying an order because it has pork. Vegan weirdos denying orders because it has meat or dairy. Numerous religious weirdos denying you getting incense because it’s witchcraft.

Oh, ffs, stop it. Uber has been fair game for Jalopnik since time immemorial and this fuckery deserves to be called out. Unless, of course, you agree with the driver’s sentiment, in which case feel free to get fucked (only, you know, not).

Them Tikity Tok’s ain’t gonna watch themselves!!!! 

Like Ok I can get being distracted on say a highway, still really DUMB but I can kind of get it, it’s a normally boring mundane drive, but why the fuck are you distracted on what look like the twisties.

That guy is an asshole of the highest order and should get booted from the app as a driver. 

“A Challenger outlast a Corolla”? Oh yeah, just like that time a Dodge Durango outlived a 4Runner.

I have definitely stood on a breaker bar to get a lug nut to loosen. Probably at least a few hundred times.

When that doesn’t work, I’ll put the bar vertical to the ground and give it a donkey kick.

I’ve never had anything strip or break. 

article: says the problem was the plane was assembled out-of-order due to supply chain woes and that is the cause of good number of its issues. 

Thats fair, though spending an extra $4k on your upgrades just so you can pay 8% for it is rough...

Also I know a lot of dealers that will install aftermarket stuff and bake it into the loan cost.

$50k for a Frontier with modified suspension? Genuinely questioning why anyone would buy this over a Colorado ZR2.