A couple of years ago one of the guys that runs a Camaro only news website tried to purchase a Cruze as a DD. He ended up with a Corolla because they wouldn’t negotiate the price of the Cruze.

It looks like a primer gray with clear coat on it, at least from the pictures and angles in this thread.

I know that in the 6th gen Camaros you have the presets, but then you can customize and save them on an individual basis. Want the stiffest suspension, tightest steering, no stability control, and stealth exhaust? Sure!

You mean taking the name of a somewhat beloved sports car from the 90's and applying it to the current market darling known as the CUV isn’t doing just that?

“You’ve got to learn to drive with the fear. There ain’t nothing more frightening than driving with a live cougar in the car... If you’re calm, that wondrous big cat will be calm too. But if you’re scared, that beautiful death machine will do what God made it to do, namely, eat you with a smile on its face.”

I won’t deny that there is some aspect of pushing the market towards a direction that favors the automakers. It happens in nearly every kind of industry to some extent. That is where my comments from supply chain and manufacturing come in. I’m positive that each automaker would absolutely love to offer only 1 car/1…

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“1) Inexpensive small pickups. In the 90s, you could buy a regular cab Ford Ranger or Chevy S-10 for under 10 Grand. You could also buy a shitty little econobox for under 10 Grand. Now, you can buy a new Nissan Versa or other similar car (quality has gone way up) for about 13 Grand, yet you can’t buy a small truck at…

I’m sure they could get away with it for a bit, but insurance will probably catch up to you. Also, I doubt a US citizen would be able to register a car in Canada so that severely limits the potential number of violators.

I can completely understand having an import ban for some set length of time. It prevents automakers from sidestepping regulations by claiming to be selling the cars “out of country” and it’s the owners who are importing them in. It closes a loophole which is similar in principle to people purchasing their cars via an…

“The R33 GT-R is banned in the U.S. because of our very stupid 25-year import rule that says it doesn’t meet our safety or emissions standards.”

In other words, they valued it just like they value drugs they collect in a drug bust.

We just had to provide proof of getting her fixed within X number of months along with $75...

Dealerships are independent warranty centers in all aspects of the term. They are also test drive and experience centers, and they are seemingly placed out far enough from each other without being too far away that you don’t get at least some competition. Believe it or not, but a lot of people still shop based on what…

I wonder if that is what skews the numbers for the summertime holidays. You tend to think of people driving more and longer distances for Thanksgiving and Christmas while more people might do shorter trips for Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day.

It really depends on the local customer base and relationship with the dealer. I placed a deposit on a Chevy a few years before my dealership had allocations. Every dealership I contacted within several hundred miles either presold their allocations from the leftovers that didn’t get one the previous year or they were…

We are decades away from the dealership model going away. There will always be a need for at least local warranty/maintenance centers. The addition of holding and selling stock is an added benefit. Manufacturers do not want the added burden of the amount of fixed assets it would take to replace dealerships.

This is pretty common practice for these types of cars. In 2012 I placed a deposit on a 2013 Camaro ZL1 because I wanted a somewhat rare configuration, ~260 ended up being made in my color/transmission combination. At this time Chevrolet would give an initial count of allocations and then trickle out more allocations…

I got a similar treatment when I was shopping for a ZL1 back in 2012. I was 24 at the time, but I had (have) a great job and no student loan debt. I was setting up appointments with various dealerships around town to show them exactly what I wanted to order as well as negotiate price and just gauge if they even had…

Step 3 is the same as my Camaro. Obviously it doesn’t have the 4WD modes and locking diff to worry about.