Harder to go to independents with a hybrid or electric.

About the no-haggle...one could merely honor the internet price when I come in to the dealership. The dealer that did and rounded the price up including taxes got the sale. All parties happy, the sale including test drive took a little over an hour.

Personally I’d like to see a manufacturer owned dealership with the some sales people being sales engineers (eng. degree or eng. tech cert.). Some of the best engineers I knew in college went to become sales engineers for auto suppliers because they could build anything but also explain to a bean counter why the hell…

There should be a list of those dealerships that do that, that instills zero confidence in me when i need warranty work done.

It wouldn’t get rid of dealerships in the boonies...those will still be independent owners....allow both. Survival of the fittest because a manufacturer will not build a dealership in a town of 500 (independent dealer might).

I didn’t have to at at a Ford dealership outside Detroit that I went to but that is extremely rare.

Place Jude Law from A.I. in a self-driving car around Philadelphia.

Hey...the C-Max isn’t that bad...

My point in this case was that something made in the US doesn’t exactly mean it’s great. Small cars has never truly been our forte...maybe it was 90yrs ago.

Chevy Vegas were built in the US...

Too Texas for Minnesota, but Bismarck west it is barely Texas enough for North Dakota.

I always wanted an old crown vic...it can do almost anything for a car provided you have the right attachment. It can do PIT maneuvers w/o frame damage with a bullbar, it can tow, it can haul 6 people, it can take extreme abuse, it can haul an air conditioner in the trunk I think.

Admin? Hell no. I’m a civil engineer. I never landed the control center job...I was “transferred to it”. I originally helped with structural investigations and bridge research, but I ran outta work (engineering, but temp, but was unionized with 401k, really bizarre).

I did engineering for a DOT in the Midwest. My job was to provide engineering support to the traffic control centers (the people who would dispatch DOT maintenance crews to clean up crashes, send DOT patrol to assist stranded motorists (fix flats, stranded motorists on busy freeways are in extremely dangerous…

One time I accidently pulled someone over when working for a state DOT. I was inspecting electronic signs and when flicking on my safety lights and pulling over to inspect an upcoming sign the car in front of me freaked.

Not me, the other car. Some people are dumb or drunk enough to drive without headlights or 1 dim headlight on unlit roads. One time one of them tailgated me @70mph on US-127 @5 AM.

I’ll take them doing the high beams in rural areas versus not seeing me come the other way at all. One can compensate for looking at high beams by looking at the white line to your right on the road. You can’t compensate too well if the person can’t see and is going over the centerline.

AC also sucks.

I’m ok with the ORM-D being mixed with majority not ORM-D without Hazmat, just not like this where it might have been all ORM-D devices for the load.

You’re right. However you’d be surprised when truckloads of just ORM-D products arrive at the warehouse that I used to work at. The trucks being unloaded into the Hazmat warehouse (2 warehouses separated by a tunnel for forklifts) would have all ORM-D products inside...