"Get Amy Winehouse's bones"

Dipshittery has two Ts.

Yeah, a relatively minor thing, but when you look at all of the relatively minor issues on the front end in the aggregate, there had to be some kind of hit. Interestingly, the front bumper looks straight, though.

The grille is the correct eggcrate style, but should be all black on the SX/4 (as should the headlight bezels and hood trim). It appears that the grill, bezels and hood trim came off of a standard Eagle.

Given the incorrect driving lights, grill, headlight bezels, and hood trim, I'd say this car has rear-ended somebody at some point. That being said, it looks pretty damned clean and this is my favorite body style for the Eagle (with the Kammback and wood-sided wagon not too far behind). Ah hell, a can of black trim…

Yep, forgot about that one, although if I paid $20K cash for a car, I'd probably keep full coverage on it anyway so that I wouldn't have to come up with another $20K if it got stolen or wrecked.

Yeah, for a lot of people the issue was not ultimately the actual selling price, but rather the feeling that they negotiated the "absolute best deal possible." My theatrics generally helped people achieve that feeling.

That's not the only part of the equation. What else could you do with that $20,000 if you hadn't spent it all at once (i.e., what is the opportunity cost of paying cash)? Paying cash for a car will save interest charges on a car loan, but will also mean that the money can't be invested or earn interest. While…

I had to smile when I read #10. Once I had been selling cars for a while, the dealership I worked at trusted me to work my own deals (i.e., I didn't have to go to the manager to get a price or run the customer's offer by him). Yet there were still customers who didn't believe me when I told them I set my own prices…

Right, but when you're doing the math, don't forget to include the opportunity cost(s) of paying cash.

My experience is that being precise (or even particularly clever) in drafting FOIA requests makes little difference. In spite of statutory language requiring government agencies to separate non-exempt material from exempt material, and years of caselaw holding that agencies cannot make generic, blanket denials based…

True, but don't forget that government agencies are generally predisposed to deny FOIA requests if the information requested might be even the slightest bit controversial. They also stretch the bounds of the statutory exceptions to (and past) their limits. Considering that the FOIA provides an exemption for…

Unfortunately, like most of the rest of the advertisers on the internet, dealers want to advertise where the hits are (and, I guess, where there's at least a tenuous relevancy to what the advertiser is selling). Visitors to KBB's site are presumably there because they are interested in buying or selling a car. So…

Amen, brother. I spent a good chunk of my life in the business, and it only took me the first month or two to see (and learn to deal with) every different "how to beat the salesperson" tactic a customer might try. Respect is a two-way street and salespeople don't enjoy getting treated like shit any more than…

That Kelly Blue Book has anything to do with what a car is actually worth. As someone who sold cars for about 7 years, I never saw a KBB trade-in figure that wasn't grossly inflated (and this was true even when the customer appraised their vehicle correctly—i.e., didn't try to call their rough vehicle "clean."). And…

First thing I saw, too. Especially pronounced in the greenhouse and C-pillar.

I still prefer this one.

Never seen this pic before, but boy Webbo manages to produce some disturbing podium pics. And what the hell is Hamilton doing?

I am neither a Kimi fanboy nor a Kimi hater, but I hope he brings his A-game when he returns. Those of you with long memories will recall that Kimi needed to get special dispensation in order to obtain his F1 superlicence for his first season at Sauber because he had so little experience in racing cars prior to his…

I was thinking possible nice price (for the right buyer) until I read the bit about all of the original fluids still being in the car. Who would the right buyer be? In my mind, surprisingly, not a collector. Probably someone in my age bracket (late 30s to mid 40s) who had a serious thing for the ZR-1 when it came…