Check the payrolls of the T (public transportation), state police, etc in MA. Also, teachers here are paid well too, I believe MA pays the third highest average. But when overtime is allowed to be greater than your salary, you have issues. The amount of unqualified but connected people who spend a lot of time in…

Local and state governments are absolutely ridiculous with how much service duplication they do. That is absolutely where there is waste that can be culled. In the Northeast every little town has some BS school administration jobs pulling in 6 figures. They’re like some sort of school business administrator/board…

Agreed. US luxury dealers are stuck in the 1970's. Look at the terrible dealership commercials. Im just waiting for someone to wear a cape and be a "Super Star!"

really? Almost every Mercedes in new York city and Chicago I've seen has had a little dealer badge on it (usually for prestige Mercedes or Mercedes Orland park)

I had a situation similar to your service department example recently. Warning, long story time...

As a proud Canadian, I did my civic duty and drove an EL from 2004, until this year when I bought the new Volvo wagon. The EL was...competent? Surprisingly stiff suspension, but still plenty of body roll in corners (I don't know how that happens), underpowered FWD platform, and absolutely nothing went wrong with it…

Lazy manufacturers will always come up for excuses for not having a manual tranny at least as an option. Its not like they have to build them most of the time, just buy one from Getrag and stuff it in there