I have a friend who swears by it on his naturally aspirated cars, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference to me on his or my NA cars. My two turbo, direct injected cars really seem to benefit. Seems to smooth out the idle and gas mileage goes up a bit after each treatment. I haven’t gotten smoke out of the NA cars,…

Nope. Sales tax gets paid through the DMV in the state where it gets registered.

Looks like Andrew Collins just got his invitation to the Jeep launch rescinded.

His dealerships are packed, and I’m sure 99% of those people won’t know/don’t care where he’s advertising. I go through there every day and I’m sure I’ll continue to see them packed in the future.

It’s not national, but due to their location they advertise in NYC and Philadelphia. Those are two pretty big markets being affected. I’m sure somebody else will fill the spot though.

Some brands won’t do warranty repairs or recalls on cars owned by other dealers. Say, if a Ford store took in an Altima with 10k miles and a blown transmission, they would have to fix that out of pocket. Dropping $6k to fix the transmission is ridiculous when there’s a 10-year, 100k mile warranty on the transmission.…

Just because there’s a repair available doesn’t mean there are parts available. I’ve known people with the Takata issue who’ve waited 6-8 months from when parts were ordered until they arrived. Ignoring a recall is one thing, but I can’t see the government differentiating between ‘Too lazy to get it fixed’ and ‘No…

Somebody at Dealer A should have figured out what was going on, stopped the dealer trade, and offered the customer a better price. The only exception is if they were able to trade for a much more profitable car. If Dealer B gave them a car that’s easier to sell for more money in exchange for the guaranteed sale, then…

Yeah, they do that. I’m surprised that didn’t happen in this situation. I think it depends on how well-informed the person is that is doing the dealer trades.

Lexus doesn’t do factory ordering because they’re part of Toyota. Toyota builds what they want to build and what they think will sell, no matter what their dealers or customers specifically want.

I just talked to someone a few days ago that wasn’t happy with the deal a dealer was offering on a car, so they went to another dealer. That dealer offered them a better price, but they found out in the process that the car they were looking for was an unusual option combination. The new dealer ended up doing a dealer…

A friend of mine had this happen to him. He ordered a GT350R through a dealer, which of course nobody had in stock. A couple months later the dealer told him they couldn’t get an allocation and wouldn’t be able to get the car. He ordered from another dealer, got verification that they had an allocation, and it still…

If there’s no interest, it seems it’s just because the dealers aren’t ordering them. I was looking last year for an ST and two dealers told me they didn’t have one and couldn’t get one. I work in the car industry and haven’t even gotten a chance to drive one. The only time I’ve been in one was on a racetrack with a…

Nice to know what I’ll be getting. I already pre-ordered the Ultimate edition. I’m pretty cheap, but I have no problem spending my money on something that will get at least dozens of hours of playtime over the next 2 years.

I agree completely. I daily drive a Prius Plug-in and I enjoy going for the high gas mileage. It has more power than I can use in the majority of my daily driving. I’m almost always stuck behind some slow minivan or work truck on my way to and from work.

The Prius is a great car to use as an A to B appliance. I have a pickup and a fun car, love to drive, and have driven all sorts of fun things, but I daily drive a Prius. It was cheap to buy used, dirt cheap to maintain, gets 50+ mpg, hardly ever gets washed, and will probably get replaced at 100k with a newer one. At…

It frustrates me to no end that there are so many people in this business who have no interest in doing things other than the way they’ve always done. And young people have trouble getting involved because the old guys and management don’t want to embrace new technologies.

Literally yesterday I had to take a picture of something for a salesman because his phone ‘Doesn’t do pictures.’ He pulled it out and showed me and it looked like a flip phone from 2005.

I was speaking from experience working at dealerships with hundreds of new cars and 100+ used cars on the lot. There are those clueless salespeople, even answering internet leads, at those sorts of dealers. The majority of salespeople will know how to do things like send you a Carfax, but there are still plenty of…

From my experience, I’d say odds are better that the guy who wouldn’t send you a Carfax just didn’t know how to do that. ‘There’s a printed copy in the deal jacket, how am I supposed to get that into the computer?’