I’m all for a win/win! For the dealership, selling a car for full MSRP the day it hits the lot should be enough winning for them.

As is always the case, the laws/rules are meaningful only to the extent somebody is willing to enforce them.

You forgot about the cash. Cash means something.

The dealer didn’t know the Civic R was going to be in high demand?

As much as I hate car dealers, deposits are a completely meaningless gesture.

Right. The other side is that the dealership regrets making a crappy deal. They’re hoping to get out of it by making this lady’s experience so miserable that she walks away.

The $1,000 nonrefundable deposit makes a huge difference here. Lawyers call it “consideration,” and it is extremely powerful, legally speaking.

We will update this story with any new information if we hear back from Jack O’Diamonds Honda.

Are they giving up on doing business with the credit-worthy among us?

OK. Bye.

NP, but only so I could flip it. All it needs is to lead with “air cooled” in all caps. Weirdos’ll come out of the woodwork for a chance to start a bidding war.

Ah, good. I came to make sure that somebody had linked these videos. Thanks for saving me the trouble.

There’s some excellent drone footage in Subaru’s latest episode of Launch Control. (VIDEO HERE.) This comes from the Oregon Trail Rally back in April.

Here’s a video of Subaru doing exactly that for a Chinese rally...

(Sorry: that one came out a little bigger than I had expected.)

There was a flash of orange at the corner of my vision. I glanced over quickly, but it was only the tiger padding softly into the room.

You got the joke. Excellent. I appreciate the feedback.

We spent, like, a year talking about Tom Brady’s Yankees hat. But Marsh’s Lakers jersey generates a collective IDGAF.