MY OLD IRON RUNS FINE”
Posted on 11/20/2025 9:42:56 AM PST by Red Badger
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I do the car deals in our family.
I don’t give a rat’s patootie about any of the above BS.
I want to get the vehicle I want at a decent price, and I always do.
And I want to make sure the people working at the service department know their stuff and that repair pricing is honest and transparent.
And that is ALL I care about.
Note to Ford: At the moment there is not a car in your lineup that I would buy.
So I won’t be setting foot in one of dealerships any time soon.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
THERE IS NOT A SINGLE VEHICLE OUT THERE TODAY THAT I WOULD BUY-—NOT EVEN IF I HIT THE LOTTERY.
MY OLD IRON RUNS FINE
How to really make it easier.
1. Fixed price sale at a reasonable MSRP like Saturn did. No negotiation, but the price is reasonable without the markup to give negotiating room.
2. Make the Finance and Insurance guys dig their own graves and the shoot them.
Apparently our local Ford dealership sells only two things, Pick-ups and Mustangs. Nothing else is even on the lot............
“brand ambassadors”
“collaboration”
“dedicated hospitality spaces”
I see Ford hired a bunch of MBA’s.
A better approach would be to build dependable cars the customer wants, not DC.
Nothing about keeping salesmen from lying like rugs or building cars that don’t fall apart. I guess I will stick with used Toyotas and Subarus.
Hard to believe, but GM and Stellantis are even worse than Ford. They never learn.
Cut to the chase: free beer.
They’ll do anything but build basic, affordable, good cars.
How’s that EV effort going? Hahahaha.
Last stats I saw had most US sales still off the lot rather than made to order.
So it makes sense auto manufacturers would stuff the lots with high margin vehicles.
I’ll drive a very long way, if I have to, for a deal on a car.
There is no way I will ever consider spending five figures on a hole in the road I throw money in to be painless.
And I will never spend a bleep load of money of features I don’t want and will never use.
And that, Subaru, includes your bleeping sun/moonroof that’s obligatory on everything other than your base trim.
I will never buy a car with a hole in the roof, and that was true BEFORE we were in a rollover.
THIS! Buils a 30K, non-compputerized small pickup or sedan, and I’m a buyer. I don’t want a bus sized suv, EV, or 100K F150.
“THERE IS NOT A SINGLE VEHICLE OUT THERE TODAY THAT I WOULD BUY-—NOT EVEN IF I HIT THE LOTTERY.
MY OLD IRON RUNS FINE”
What is your old iron. I think you said so in the past?
btt
It reads like they didn’t even ask a single customer about making the experience better, they just made some stuff up.
We used to go to a Lexus in Texas that had made-to-order sandwiches.
The Lexus here has canned and bottled drinks, a professional expresso machine, snacks from Costco and several types of fruit.
“Buils a 30K, non-compputerized small pickup or sedan, and I’m a buyer. “
You can get a Ford Ranger for 30k.
Honda Civic, According and many others.
Everything is computerized, now.
.
MY OLD IRON RUNS FINE”
Takes writing like 10 e-mails, saved me thousands.
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