That’s not how it works. The manufacturers still be bundling option groups like they always do. There’s only so many build combinations they will make because it’s incredibly cost prohibitive to build “one off” options.

The ideal inventory, at least by NADA guidelines, is 60 days on the ground, 15 days of in-transit units, and 30 days on the ground, for a total of 105 days of availability.

As Third Gear we eloquently wrotre: “Darwin is going to put this kid on his speed dial.”

No question the CHP officer should have stopped to check on the kid after he made contact with the car. I would suspect the optics of this situation will lead the CHP to apologize and discipline the officer, etc.

It would be interesting to see the demographics of NHRA drag racing and Sprint cars. Obviously neither are in the global motorsport category, yet, both are a huge deal in the states.

The one thing we haven’t heard in the story (or the piece from the local news station) is anything about the customer contacting her own insurance company who would be HIGHLY motivated to get the other party’s insurance company(s) to pay up via subrogation.

The Dealer was doing their job properly. It was the moron who turned left in front to the technician doing the QC test drive who is at fault. Why is this so hard to figure out?

Three insurance companies are involved and they would sort this out without getting lawyers involved under normal circumstsances.

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Yes, she does deserve a no hassle solution. This is the real world though, and her insurance company has an army of people who’s sole job is to get this worked out on her behalf with minimal hassle.

Very unlikely in this case since the subrogation process would likely result in the car being replaced by a combination of the at fault driver’s insurance and the dealership’s shop insurance.

Contacting your insurance company isn’t the same thing as “putting in a claim”. There’s a process called subrogation where insurance companies negotiate fault with each other.

Yep, this one certainly looks solid for $37K.

We all recognize the customer is not at fault and not liable. The frustration comes from seeing a consumer not taking the common sense and logical course of action by deploying her own insurance company to advocate for her and sort this out.

This kind of stuff happens on occasion and it really isn’t all that difficult to sort out. Assuming the customer has insurance, the customer should contact their insurance provider and let them sort it out via subrogation.

If you’re flexible on which manufacturer, there are very likely some good opportunities out there for product trainer or sales trainer roles. You would most definitely need to be open to relocation and frequent regional travel, though. 

Former factory guy here. I suppose it depends entirely on the manufacturer. At FCA, the dedicated product trainers and sales trainers I worked with were generally all independent contractors, not employees. They didn’t work for a training company, they were independent.

I can give you some real world perspective on how product training works at an OEM, in this case FCA/Stellantis:

That M3 is an ugly MFer. To be fair though, Chrysler’s Warren Tank Arsenal also built 36% of the total M4s built.

Chrysler made 'em both so maybe it's a tie.