Allow me to introduce you the wacky world of Mercedes-Benz W123 diesel estates.

The IMS is not an issue by 08 and besides even if it was, no car goes this many miles with an ims that is going to fail. DME reading shows no over revs, which is more important than operating hours (which hours divided by miles will show average speed (to substantiate claims of lots of highway miles??). If owner has…

Lose money on each one, make it up in volume.

No, they still cheated the system. But there is a difference in stealing $8.7M dollars outright vs selling enough cars at a discount people were not suppose to get to generate an extra $8.7M in discounts they should not have received.  I am not sure how FCA did not have a way to catch this or limit the number of sales…

Ford knows the game, which is why they have a provision for “Friends & Neighbors” under the X plan. A car sold, even at a slight discount, is better on the books than no car sold.

700k in unwarranted sales bonuses leaves $8 million. The linked Auto News article indicates Nimo used these codes for “nonqualified buyers thousands of times” 8mil divided by 2000 would be $4000 per transaction. Who’s to say how many thousands of sales are involved? But I agree, it would have cost FCA more to NOT make…

Shit, everyone here has a “relative” at Ford.

Michigan Car Salesman Cost FCA $8.7 Million...

Exactly! The real headline is that one salesman accounted for over $165 million in sales for FCA.

It’s only a problem when the company is sold and the auditors show up.

Anything with a BMW Motorsport engine jammed under the hood shall never be described as “dumb”

I’m not sure how this is any more dumb than the current crop of performance SUVs, and at least this has a proper motor!

Turn in your Jalop card. You’re fired!

Tell your cousin to leave our damn rocks alone.

A 2005 C6 corvette is nearing the bottom of its depreciation curve. It won’t depreciate more than any other suggestion above

I’d also like to object to the use of “hero” as applied to a wanker with an extraordinarily high tolerance for boredom.

That’s a shitty situation, but it’s cool that you can do something enjoyable for her in the time she has left. There will probably be a lot of sensible suggestions, but how about this:

Do we have to? Seriously, this would be like discussing my cousin Phyllis’s collection of oddly shaped rocks she found on the beach in Maine.

Fascinating. A friend of mine from work did something similar with aircraft seating: as we flew for day trips almost weekly, he would check in a different seat every flight. I reckon he completed the Fokker 100, not sure about the Boeing 737, surely didn’t complete the Airbus A320.

I don’t care how great the new Supra drives - I can’t stand looking at that lumpy mess.