I agree with you, and I hope the "FD" in your name refers to the 3rd gen RX-7 (in the process of selling mine).

Now THAT is road rage fail.

Not the calm guy, he was assisting his sister, who is disabled and military. The character in the video is a sergeant.

Agreed, the SUV is the asshole, here. The car was next to go and actually ahead, before the SUV bucked and started the nonsense.

I don't think he's void of responsibility, but they're dead, so it's null. An emergency stop is an emergency, so the motivation for deviating from the norm is much different. Driving slowly in the left lane will depend on why you're driving slower. If you just leisurely feel like driving slowly, it will depend on the…

Right, speed is vilified to an absurd extreme, and there is little attention placed on actual driver training.

The green light has right of way, regardless of speeding. Breaking the red light has no path to being right, whatsoever, so they're going to bear the majority of the blame.

Bumper to bumper traffic happens to be where crashes occur all the time and it's exactly why we discourage stopping on the highway. But at least some of those are more predictable, low impact collisions.

For that matter, you also want a controlled burn with an ICE, as well. BANG can be very very bad.

But the original point was that they're similar in principle. It's a fair enough relation, in that they're both air compressors, and in part, internal combustion engines, where the air-fuel ignition portion differs. And though this would be the point of contention, unless one is buying a motor in pieces, I'd just…

Ah, the V6 Mustang argument!

It's like when football players get into fights...with full pads, helmets, and gloves on, followed only by hockey players.

The thing is, car dealing can't purely be driven by supply & demand, if knowledge and haggling ability have bearing on the price. I agree, a portion of it most certainly is (and probably sets the basis), but you've actually outlined another key portion yourself, where you've stated that getting the best deal requires…

That's unfortunate, it sounds like they were just being stubborn and lazy. If you're willing to pay for the car and wait for delivery, the sale pretty much handles itself.

In other words, it's saying "don't hate the player, hate the game". Sadly, they are one in the same— you can't have the game, without the players.

That isn't necessarily true. My last two purchases have been factory orders, because the dealership didn't have and couldn't find the selection in theirs or any inventory.

Most people don't like anything they suck at, but the thing with haggling, is that you can rarely confirm whether or not you've received the best price. The bearing price for any particular person is almost entirely mental and influenced by a variety of factors. Then there is the fact that people socialize, and thus,…

Until dealers, as a whole, are willing to tell customers to leave and that they're now operating like any other store, this will be the case.

Probably because there is almost no way for the consumer to verify this. It's laughable as to how many times people have heard "this is the absolute best I can do" line, so hearing it again from a salesman, even honestly, means nothing. The idea has been completely devalued, thanks in part to an aggressive sales…

Interestingly enough, if you go to New York (or any beach/tourist city), right here in the US, you can haggle on items to get money off the price.