They are objectively awful when compared to anything else made this century. I can’t think of anything worse. 

The final production year of a generation often offer “special editions” with a potluck bundle of equipment leftover from the entire production run. I have a ‘09 Outback SE without a moonroof but the high-end stereo and some other odds and ends that usually don’t show up on a moonroof-less model.  It’s basically…

They wanted to be ballers, shot-callers

Probably an unpopular opinion around here, but I’m with the dealership on this one.

Way off base on the Granger part. Read that part again. Granger is where everyone has flocked to for being transparent and giving the best price.

There’s a social media campaign of customers trying to get Ford to stop screwing Granger’s allocations. Granger is the exact opposite of DCH

could care less how big of a dick dude was. Ford issued orders DO NOT MARK UP RESERVATIONS and what do they do?

They broke the rules. So FUCK EM. Dealer got off too easy. Fuckin cheaters.

I tried to order an in demand Wrangler late last year. The local dealer gave a verbal agreement over the phone of “sticker price plus fees”. I asked about the fees on the phone and they seemed normal. I made an appointment to custom order the car. I went into the dealer knowing exactly what I wanted. When we got to…

He did have it in writing. The problem was the dealership employee screwed him over by omitting the fact that what they both signed was simply an acknowledgement of the reservation, rather than a contract that forbid alteration of the final sales price.

At the same time, why does everything have to come down to legality and signed agreements for things like this. Shouldn’t a well functioning system be easy to navigate, transparent, and not rely on having to protect yourself all the time?  An ideal system here should be relatively “frictionless” so to speak.

Obviously these type of dealership do not believe in long term relationship. They will be the first one to cry over direct selling model like Tesla, which hopefully become more popular down the road.

Asked my sales guy yesterday about this. Said they sell at MSRP and usually don’t get anything in writing, but could get something in writing if I wanted.

I’ll take a Grand Peckerwood Laredo, please

OK Stellantis, I’ve worked in branding my whole career and have helped some pretty big companies come up with names for their products. I’m not cheap, but because this is important, I’m willing to do it for free.

I suggest you rename it the Jeep Bro- it’s got it’s own modern tribal connotations, it speaks directly to…

The Cherokee is probably largely responsible for Chrysler’s post-80s success; maybe even saved them from another bankruptcy. Getting the Jeep brand under their portfolio turned out to be a big win, so to Chrysler, the Cherokee brand is and continues to be big money. I don’t defend their continued use of the name, but…

Do you think it would be cool if a company came out with a car called “The Jew?” Or that it wouldn’t be bizarre if Jeep’s next crossover was called “The Korean?”

I’m always amazed how quick car manufactures are to throw away a brand equity for basically no reason at all, and then to stubbornly hang on to brands that are slowly becoming toxic to them.

That transcript reads like a Trump interview.

Crippling? Yeah that rear view camera that may cut out is reason enough to total it out I guess.

5th: Why people think bikes need to be on the street is effin’ ridiculous. “It has wheels”. No duh, so don’t 4 wheelers yet they aren’t legal on roads.

It sounds like American car buyers really like fixed prices, easily searchable inventory, cars that are reasonably inspected, and not haggling with a salesman.