I 100% agree. I don’t doubt that many car salespeople don’t make as much as we often assume they do off of each sale, but the moment I realize you aren’t being honest/transparent with me, I automatically assume you’re lying about everything else too. The trust is broken and trust is one of the most important parts…

We need to see more of this. This is the proper way to be a responsible corporate citizen. Realizing there’s a fuck up, does something about it immediately to reduce or eliminate the chance of people getting hurt or killed.

Dude, the doggy Subaru commercial gave me the feels once I realized it was a bucket list for his old dog. *wipes tear away*

For me it’s warranty availability and just going in, showing financing and leaving. Not endless negotiations with a temperamental toddler with me

I understand your point and respect your experience with CPO programs. I tend to be a cynic and a skeptic, so I naturally gravitate toward Steve Lehto’s s side of the story.

I’m sure a lawyer sees his share of clients with bad cars that were CPO. But Steve sees only that side of the story and his expert opinion is only on that side of the story. (Note I like Steve’s stuff a lot and am not down playing his point).

I am speaking from first-hand experience having worked in luxury car sales for several years. While there may be SOME individual dealers who skirt the CPO requirements, buying a CPO car is largely a much safer prospect than a non-CPO car with a similar warranty.

CPO cars have gone through specific reconditioning a CarMax car may not have. Also, you can negotiate the price on a CPO car.

I think it comes down to whether you’re buying something terribly unreliable or something that just needs an oil change every so often.

To be fair, you definitely need to be looking at the best version of whatever used car to begin with and then realize you will pay a few thousand more at carmax plus warranty. I’m not saying it isn’t justified but you can definitely find the same car on craigslist with 50k more miles and end up paying a whole lot…

I’m in a similar boat considering CarMax vs CPO. The one thing is CarMax’s favor is that the CarMax warranty is for many more year and many more miles than a typical CPO warranty.

And Doug is doing an excellent job selling me on CarMax! I’d personally prefer to go CPO via a dealer, but if not that, you can bet you’d find me at a CarMax! Heck, I‘m starting to wonder if the CarMax route would be better than CPO.

I think a CarMax warranty is the only reason I would consider CarMax at all to buy a car instead of a local dealer. But man, it is a big reason!

My mom stayed at home until my youngest sister was in school. All three of us paid for our college education and are not entitled at all. It is how the parents treat the kids and teach them,not if both parents work or not.

You make a good point. But, in my 52 years, I’ve met many children and raised two of my own. Yes, I’ve seen two working parents spoil a child. More often, I see mommy “give it all up” to stay at home with the child and let dad work himself into an early grave. These SAHM or “CEO of the household”, choose to drive the…

The number of replies echoing the question; ‘why leave your top down, you lunatic?’ are more disheartening than the act itself, if it did in fact occur as purported.

This girl strikes me as the “I’m pretty so I can do whatever the fuck I want” type, which is probably my least favorite type of person, male or female. Since when did it become remotely okay to mess with someone else’s property, let alone for a reason this stupid?

Spoken like a true Facebook stalker. I should know. We can smell our own.

But the Facebook profiles of both Nicole Kathleen, the angry spouse of the Miata-owner, and Ali Green, the presumably-terrible car-dancer are both strangely devoid of content on their timelines, which seems odd.

In my experience, the people who buy these seem to love them. The ones that I know tend to be Southern, Retired Military, African American, or some combination of the three. A close friend of my family - who just happens to check all three of those boxes - has had every version produced over the last 30 years and…