I’ll never make enough money to just wipe out a reserve of cash and pay flat out for a vehicle, no matter how “financially sound” that advice is supposed to be. I have a budget. So much money a month goes to retirement, so much goes to saving for vacation, so much goes to bills, college for the kids, so forth and so…

The Car salesman in me: Holy Shit!!!!

The wrangler exists in a wierd state in which it deserves 100 percent of the love it gets, and 100 percent of the hate. It was divisive LONG before the Cybertruck was a thing!

Man, I love the Hellcat, and I love EV’s, including these supercar EV’s.

Comfort itself is a relative term, and means so many different things. For example, it doesnt matter how comfy a 120,000 Escalade with massaging seats is if driving a vehicle worth more than your house through downtown Canton Ohio has you biting your fingernails, just waiting for some teenager in a hyundai tiburon to…

There are too many to list, but I’ll play the game assuming we’re not doing this for financial reasons, but out of “I wish I could own one brand new and love it forever” reasons. I’ll narrow it down to my top three.

Sounds like this weekend was a mini-vacation and just good for the soul, I can read it plain as day.

It’s absolutely the Hornet/Tonale twins. The first batch of 2023s launched half baked and had a plethora of dumb software issues with thier Driver assist and cruise control systems. They fixed it quick, as the 2023s were only out for about 5 months before the ‘24s hit, and the 24's have been much much better. Still,…

I really want to write some kind of big cover-all-the-bases article for this kind of thing, but yeah man If you dont have a buyers order in front of you to sign, at the rate you know you are good for within an hour, you just gotta tell them (in a kind but firm voice) “Listen, I’m a buyer at X with X for my trade at X…

That’s the way to do it. If I have a customer that’s prepared this way, I can have them going from first handshake to headed home in a new car in 45 minutes. 

I could write an entire article on how to not be miserable buying a car, but I’ll sum it up here:

It baffles me how a vehicle designed to hold 90 plus kwh of electricity in it’s battery pack cannot keep a 12 volt battery topped off. 

I think maybe this is a very locale-specific question, because where I’m at (Rust belt-Appalachian coal area) people tend to keep their old beaters running forever. There are more than a few old saturns, Galants, neons, and such running around. There’s a few late 80s cavaliers and ford tempos still buzzing around,…

Looks like theres a “camera wash” button there on the left.

I nominate the Econoline Powerstroke.  (Shudders)

I’m sure there was a first aid kit back there somewhere!

Why? They didn’t build it. They sold it. 

No fitting kids back behind that seat. This was the 90's baby. Every trip to pap’s house we got to ride in the bed!

Oddly satisfying? On my Wrangler 4xe in electric mode you can still run through the gears in Manual mode, and it’s so neat to listen to the pitch of the electric motor rise and fall as you go through the gears.

The dad-vehicle of my childhood.