Came here to say, this is likely coming from the insurance policy. We ran a Hole-In-One lease giveaway at a dealer I worked for decades ago and the fine print made it nearly impossible to claim as the rules were water-tight and most likely have a violation the group could find to not pay out.

The insurance company is the bad guy here, the dealerhsip is the GOOD GUY for once.  All of these are backed by insurance companies so the dealer took this out of their pocket to make it right.  The dealer should get nothing but good press for cleaning up after the insurnace company.

You can comple a person to testify, it is called a material witness warrant. 

This is really nothing new, just new to cars. Police have been getting search warrants for camera recordings from buildings and such for a very long time. 

Nah, make it painted metal. Like those bright red, white, and blue bits of trim on fifties cruisers.

Just so the whole thing is legible, and not reduced to gibberish by Kinja’s inability to handle links properly:

The Altima having expired temp tags would’ve been the cherry on top. 

I assume it’s costing them even more money now with interest rates higher. They could have reissued that debt capacity to other more recently for better interest rate returns, but are stuck taking the historically lower interest rate payments from Musk. So even though he’s making the agreed payments, the banks are…

According to Google Maps it’s 35 miles to Needles. If your tank is empty (which is stupid in the first place, because Mojave Desert) you can get 2-3 gallons to get you to civilization.  If you’re going the other way and didn’t tank up in Needles, then I guess you pay the “stupid tax”.

The burning of fuel is irrelevant as the minimum mass of the car is without fuel. I believe they make them drain it at the end before weighing.

Honda Fit...but make it an EV. Honda can borrow Chevy’s electric tech from the upcoming Bolt (like they did with the Prologue) and make a new Fit now with even better interior packaging and flexiblity.

I’m old enough to have seen revered drivers, people like Senna and Schumacher, perform acts that would get you banned from the sport now. I agree this was whiny and petty, but it’s hardly unheard of from “championship caliber” drivers.

I’ve worked at 5 manufacturing plants in my tenure. Every single one has at least 5,000sq/ft of space unused at all times. Whether it’s old meeting rooms, storage rooms, cafeterias, flat out open floor space, or condemned areas due to asbestos (you’d be shocked how many plants still have asbestos). Albeit, this is a…

I loved that whole series. It was great.

I see nothing in this article that makes me think the dealership did anything negligent or intentionally wrong, story is about a loser of a human being intentionally criminal. The service manager is a POS, make an example of him while attaching reasonable damages to the dealership as the entity with deep enough…

They sold his trade because the trade part of a dealer often has nothing to do with the finance side. A trade comes in and is usually immediately processed for resale at the dealer if it is a cherry of a car, or more likely sent to auction. This process happens very quickly. Hours or days. They do not hold the cars…

Bad dealers are bad. There are ~18K new car dealerships in the US. The vast majority of them are perfectly fine.

That’s not necessarily true?

It’s a fundamental truth that, when optimizing a ratio, the denominator is where the focus will go. Driving that denominator to zero pushes the result to infinity.

I hate to agree, but...I agree. IANAL, but as far as I can tell, this douchebro was already on the hook for assault by throwing the drinks at her. I don’t blame her for being pissed, but as satisfying as it is to see, this wasn’t so much self defense as revenge, made worse by the fact that he could have done some real…