Wholeheartedly appreciating the Mighty Boosh reference in the title

In my experience (read; I’ve been the sales manager at a couple dealerships), the better deal is regularly on the one on the lot. Put simply, the order unit is outside of my normal allocation and while I’d love the deal there isn’t any reason to discount a car, the sale of which, I won’t be able to count for a few…

No joke, when I was a manager at a Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram dealership one of my sales guys had a customer who had just moved from Japan and he spent a good 30 minutes trying to sell this thing to him. When the customer (understandably) grew frustrated and left (he was trying to buy a Grand Cherokee?) my salesperson…

Don’t know if this counts but once I was a salesperson at a Mercedes dealership out here in Oregon, we get a lot of “interesting” customers, people asking if they’ll be able to install a ramp so they can get their pet goats into the back of their GLK, things along those lines, but this one was the greatest.

I’m a huge fan of mine, I have it linked up to my Philips Hue system and I’m in a studio apartment, so anywhere in my place I can say “Alexa, turn on the lights” and they’ll turn off. IFTTT is useful too, automatic light alarms in conjunction with ones I set for Echo.

Working for Mercedes, so many of the customers who are coming in and dropping a check for a $100k GL or S class are just simple folk wearing simple clothes. One lady was wearing a full american flag wal-mart clothing special. You really can never know.

While I do what you're suggesting, the problem I have (and this happens with some games that are sold on Steam, looking at you Far Cry 3) it opens up Uplay as well, and having that and steam running in the background affects memory usage. Origin is a whole other can of worms.

I once worked in a Carp shop that had one of the old SawStop systems in it, was cutting a piece of particle board that had been sitting too close to the metal shop and had filings on it, conducted a charge and out of nowhere saw dropped into the steel block.

If someone puts fucking Javert behind that wall I will LOSE IT.

There's absolute truth to this, all dealerships run on a month to month sales basis, and we're usually desperate to sell as many on the last days of the month as we can just to increase our numbers.

Honestly the top pointers I'd have are a) buy it Certified Pre-Owned if possible, the added year of warranty is a godsend, and then b) buy the pre-paid maintenance (2 or 3, usually costs around $1,000-1,500) because those services right after getting it could be pricey, and most people wind up getting more than their…

Hey if you have any questions I work for Mercedes so I might be of use haha

A customer came into our dealership driving one of these once... Let me tell you, it's a very specific type of person who buys this car. And I like that specific type of person quite a bit.

I was so all over this trailer up until they started going on about pre-order content... Whyyyy

I feel ya there. Lot of the stuff isn't in house for Tesla, but automakers have been trading parts since cars were invented (most of which involved Daimler being the Automotive equivalent of Zeus going around and having children with everyone). Tesla's had to contract out the majority of their stuff anyway, and will…

Actually this is already pretty feasible. If, as Damon is saying, 90% is referring to the vast majority of our driving being freeway and traffic, Mercedes has been able to do that for a couple years now with DISTRONIC. Bit of a stretch I'll admit to say that's 90%, but Tesla already uses a lot of Mercedes tech in…

I've worked at a number of car dealerships, most will offer a discount to Costco Members!! Just make sure you ask about it before you've started paperwork, however keep in mind if you've been an expert negotiator the Costco deal may not be as good as the one you're getting, but it's always a good alternative.

This is the funniest thing I have heard in months.

As someone who currently works for an "independently owned" car dealership, and has worked for multiple different ones before, I feel I need to agree completely with you here.