you know, i WILL give the seller credit for only keywording it for relevant stuff (mostly “dump truck”) instead of 25 or 30 lines of unrelated junk like “sports car truck motorcycle kawasaki chevy honda harley davidson yamaha yugo guitar shirt donkey go kart free”

i get being tired of the haggling (not a fan, honestly.  but further, there’s a difference between basic haggling, and the pretty much wall of one-sided bullshit some dealers put up, that we as customers have to wade through, since our only recourse is to leave and try to find a better dealer (which is a crapshoot…

this guy gets it..even if the response is just a “that’s way too far outside a reasonable range to work with, try again...”

how much of a fit will their dealers throw, though? i have one of the rebadged fords, and trying to get recalls done is SUPREMELY unpleasant.

back in high school days we were helping a friend’s dad reroof his house. said dad went and rented a truck (mid 90's f150) to go pick up a load of shingles. he had them stacked right to the top of the bedrails, and on the way home, he had to slam on the brakes to avoid an accident; load shifted, crumpled the front…

there’s also a few places around CA that run steam engines for various trips...I believe Roaring Camp (near santa cruz) runs steam engine trips through the redwoods, Yosemite Mountan Sugar Pine railroad runs a little stretch just south of the wawona entrance to yosemite, and there’s another around…

face to face, no mask, maybe a theatrical cough as you had over the paperwork, but before they read it.

Not to mention the fact that the person it’s there for is in a position highly likely to be in direct contact with sick people, rather than a copy editor or something that doesn't have to see anyone outside family face to face.

Especially if it’s a situation of “will the RV storage be open to get the RV when we need it, since everything non essential is being shut down my shelter in place orders?” not to mention bringing up "other neighbors are in the medical field and they aren't doing this"...maybe they didn't have the foresight, or don't…

this. more evidence of the sales drone smokeshow working, combined with people want a car when they want a car, so they’re more likely to give in on the loaded models the dealers stock, rather than trying to hunt down something a little more reasonably priced.

modded or not?

a corolla should be easy to outrun.

gotta be a class this would fit in where it’d have an easy shot at a record...something with a stock frame and diesel...

hell, with the options list on the tester, what would a comparable SI cost? all in (tax, lic, etc), i think we were around $26k on our 18 SI, minus the nanny stuff.

low mileage pre-owned (i mean the toilet paper)

The more bizarre part is that the gas flap doesnt lock, and I don't have a locking gas cap. Drug-addled minds, I guess.

Not if they'd had time to get through with the 1" hole saw they were using, but they got spooked.

unfortunately for me, but fortunately for my local shop, my daily has to go in for a new gas tank...since some piece of scum decided to drill a hole in it to steal a few gallons of gas and then take off and leave it pouring the rest of the full tank on the ground.

park a cayenne next to the beetle and i’ll have a good set.

if your org is a microsoft shop, the current version of outlook allows you to schedule when emails should be delivered...then you don’t even have to manually hit send.