Posted on 11/20/2025 9:42:56 AM PST by Red Badger
Build a car that has no electric windows, no electric seats, no electric anything except radio and lights..............
The last vehicle I ordered was built in early Jan. and finally made it to the Dealership around June 15th.
[the same year]
Every one will leak eventually...........
I have a convertible and they will as well, but I knew that when I bought it.............
Sounds like a plan!.................
I'll admit I've been spoiled by electric starters.
“Ford Is Redesigning Dealers to Make Car Buying Feel Easier”
“Hey sales guy! What’s in those five gallon buckets? Motor oil?”
“Nah, K-Y jelly. Helps make car buying feel easier.”
Okay, I’ll make an exception in your case!.................
Anyone that trusts a car salesman is going to get the deal that they deserve.
I hope the writer means that Ford is redesigning dealerships and not dealers. Or are they working on some creepy robotics? 🤔
They are initiating a new propaganda program...........
I am old enough to remember “Win on Sunday, Sells On Monday.”
Long before wokism and political correctness, Nascar was something to behold. The cars all looked different. The above phrase had to do with bragging rights, and actual performance.
I also remember tuning up my own cars with timing, dwell, points gap; yes, I had a gapper tool and a timing light. Advancing and retarding the distributor.
Today’s auto companies took the massive government checks and produced EVs, as long as the cash and subsidies flowed. They were just like the Soviet tractor factories. Each day, the tractor company’s employees would walk by row upon row of brand new, rusting tractors outside the tractor factory. Inside the factory, everyone “had a job” producing more tractors to put outside in yet another row.
....Or, just sell your cars at a set price, without all the negotiation and attempted screwing the customer over. Easier, the customers are happier, and a dealership only needs maybe two sales guys per shift, instead of an entire department of them!
Re-arrangeing the deck chairs on the Titanic?
I’m glad I don’t have to do what they make you do when I go to buy groceries or shop at the department stores.
They have a set price. If I like it I pay it. If I don’t I go elsewhere..................
Could care less about all the touchy feely BS. I also don’t want a relationship with the dealer. They’re not a charity, their mission is to make the highest possible profit off of me. I respect that.
What I do want:
1. A price that is reasonable. Your product is a commodity, I can and will go elsewhere. You have no leverage on me whatsoever.
2. Don’t waste a second of my time with BS. If I’m not the most important priority for you, I’m walking. Considering the cost of a new or late model vehicle I deserve it.
3. Give me a damn good reason to buy from you. It’s not about what you can upsell me on. It’s about what YOU will do for ME.
4. Make it convenient for me.
5. Don’t embarrass yourself. If your salesperson isn’t able to speak English, has body odor, doesn’t know his product, wants to tell me all about his stupid boring life, lacks class and professionalism… it tells me all I need to know about you the dealer.
What I will give you the dealer: Professionalism and respect for your time. I will have likely already done my homework on the vehicle I’m looking at. I have great credit, and probably will show up ready with a contact at my bank for you to close the deal with. Lastly, I will set my expectations with you, politely of course, so you’re not surprised if I get up from the table and walk away.
I guess I’m a prick. Whatever…
Lord have mercy…. It’s a rocket that corners.
I once owned a 1969 BMW 2002. The wiring diagram for the entire vehicle fit on one page of the owners manual.
Electronic ignition, airbags, anti-lock brakes, and backup cameras were offered decades before cars were computerized.
If only Detroit would go back to making cars that weren’t held hostage every few thousand miles for electrical issues.
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