All I really got from that story is how much you want to suck cock.

They put a picture of an NSX in an ad on AutoTrader, and then they foolishly let me drive it. It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen.

Dumbest gimmick by far: offering free car washes for life @ the time of purchase & 1 month later getting an email stating they are discontinuing the program.

I used one of those “your trade is worth 4000" deals. I had found a car I wanted, talked it diwn to close to what I wanted to pay, got the papers started and tossed in “oh yeah, here is my trade”. The trade was junk.... I had paid 1500 for it 14 years earlier, it didn’t run, had junk in the back and random parts in…

Tom, I work at a Honda store in Ohio. Had a phone call today about a Civic Type R “if i give a 5000 refundable deposit and pay no more than msrp could you get me the car” I asked did you read a Jalop article today? “Yes, yes I did.” Needless to say that guy earned himself a deposit on a Type R that we have no info…

Most dealerships have a dunking tank, though it’s more metaphorical.

An acura dealer sent us one of those “we need your car” mailers for my wife’s year and a half old TSX. Since one of us needed to get a SUV and there was no way in hell I was giving up my 9 year old FD RX7 we went in to the dealer fully prepared for shenanigans.

Not seen many incentives really. There used to be a guy in my old neighborhood who offered $100 of KFC vouchers to anyone who bought a car costing more than $1500, but he only did that when sales were low. I can’t imagine who thought that buying a car for KFC vouchers was a good idea, but the low bar gives you an idea…

I don’t know about gimmicks, but according to the letters I get a couple of times a month. The local Dodge dealer is in desperate need of a 4 year old Durango with 85K Miles and scratch on the front and rear bumpers. They sure have some peticular buyers. I hope that the scratch is in the right place.

Tom Gill Chevrolet in Florence, KY used to give away Omaha steaks just for taking a test drive. They still might.

Me too!

I need that.

In the 80s we gave away chainsaws with every Nissan Pickup. It’s funny because you didn’t need a gimmick to sell dozens of those trucks a month.

“Buy a car, get a free Subaru 360!”

“I can tell you’ll take good care of this rare car”. Yeah, you clearly don’t know squat about me.

In general the “up to” gimmicks always bug me. “You could save as much as 750 million dollars!”

I had a dealer try that with me and an Evo. I told him it was an amazing machine, but making me look good isn’t one of its capabilities!

A dealership in southern minnesota I heard about was offering some fairly random appliances with the purchase of a used car a few years ago. They had dirt devil and Dyson vacuum cleaners, air conditioners, refrigerators, microwaves, egg cookers, commercial grade humidifiers and dehumidifiers... Turns out the…

I still get calls from the Toyota dealer that I got my Sienna from asking me to come in every weekend in hopes I might buy a new Sienna. Some of the stuff he has tried:

They told me I looked good in the car