In the consumer market, maybe. In the commercial market sealed beams are still very much alive. You see tons of big rigs with them, and some of the newer International medium duty chassis cabs have them too. EMS near me just got a brand new ambulance that looks a lot like this:
Did somebody say Phil Collins?
Where I work we refuse to sell European cars over 10 years old or 100,000 miles. They're just too damn risky. Even when they check out perfectly they always come back with problems. And you can't move them selling them as-is because then the customers say "You're selling this BMW for TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS and you won't…
Determined yet happy, and wearing war paint.
Custom low-glare windshield and heavy-duty ventilation system.
John DeLorean's story, a biopic about his rise and fall in the automotive industry. His story before the DeLorean Motor Company is pretty interesting, and of course the story of the DeLorean DMC-12 is a great one on its own, including DMC's downfall with John's arrest for cocaine trafficking- which was supposedly a…
These two were possibly my favorite car guys ever. Truly an inspiration to me and I owe much of my car repair ability to them. While I didn't learn a lot of specific repairs from their show, they taught me a lot about how to think about car problems and repairs, and that's way more important than what you learn from…
I came in here thinking the same, but then I read this part:
The company I work for learned years ago that NOT marking up hot/limited production cars is more profitable. Firstly it creates better customer relationships, which regardless of what the old school boys say, is the most important thing for your bottom line. The other reason is that for many of these cars, factory…
Yep, those old 'Yotas sure are beasts.
Long story ahead about driving through Appalachia in a really, really junky truck.
This is so far beyond crack pipe it couldn't catch a bus back to crack pipe.
the kind of person who has enough money to afford a hybrid luxury car probably doesn't really care all that much about fuel economy.
We always urge them to call the manufacturer and find out what their trailer or boat or whatever actually weighs. Trailers are supposed to have a GTWR label on them though, so unless the trailer is really old or the label has been painted over/removed the max trailer weight should be easy to find.
I wrote a post for Oppo a little while ago that may come in handy here- it tells you how to tell if the truck is capable of doing the job.
Here at Friendly Motors we don't do any of that stuff, in fact it's so rare that I've never even heard of any of those tactics in my entire life! We're so friendly we even have kittens in our waiting room for you to play with while you get your car serviced!
Where I work a Lot Lizard refers to a lazy salesman who just stands around on the lot all day smoking cigarettes and hoping to grab a customer, instead of spending most of his time on the computer or phone following up with customers and trying to generate business like the actual successful salespeople do.
Interesting. In 7 years in the car business I've never heard any of these terms.
Reuters said "until January or later" — actually, they initially said "after Friday" — which is hopeful in a way.
