";s:4:"text";s:8546:"So today I'm going to use a lot of hyperbole and anecdotal evidence to write about German cars. It's always refreshing when someone challenges "established facts". I think what Jalopnik means is that a married couple shouldn't spend more than 10% of their combined income on vehicles. -- See my CaddyInfo car blogs: 2011 CTS-V, 1997 ETC Yes, I was Jims_97_ETC before I changed cars.
I would never on the other hand rely on the judgement from mechanics simply because they are very biased because they only see the problem cars. They seem to have the worst "potential customer" service. That's obvious to anyone. But I also doubt that those sales people deals directly with serious buyer face to face that often. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Then there are the fit and finish people who rather have THE perfect closing door sound than a reliable automobile.
Until the mid 1990's you could say that about Mercedes but lately you don't see many over-10-years-old German cars out there. I remember once when some of my working collegues questioned why I didn't drive an Audi just like the rest of them. I can strongly recommend them. × I think it is mainly an issue with Ferrari's NA dealers. He was also stunned when I began violently coughing after several minutes of uncontrollable laughter. 2020 Clear editor. Pretty much every person I know in So Cal who has $80k plus cars get them through a broker instead of a dealer. By admin On 21 January 2020 In Review | No Comments . Featured (Apparently even Rich people don't like deal with Car Dealers...lol). Yeah, i was talking to a Friend mine and he told me of a similar experience at a Ferrari dealership in So Cal. Display as a link instead, × As for the original article, by his own omission he didn't even go there with the intent to purchase, he went to the dealership purely to pick up spare parts, something he has been doing regularly for the past 4 years from a staff member he describes as a "fantastic person to deal with". But, if you get out of the craziness of LA/SD, you'll run into Ferrari dealers that actually advertise lease specials. I agree to just about everything you said. But three "defects" made my car "worse than average.". Then it is good to know that Cadillac has good initial quality ratings and good long term dependability ratings. My car is capable of 15 pounds of boost and that is plenty. Well over two million Americans are incarcerated today. Better intercooling will bring down IAT2 and allow more boost, which is available with the production supercharger and pulley. Or because you think they are of a different political view, and some politicians whose only comeback is "fake news". Apparently their attitude is our car is so exclusive and limited you are lucky if we let you buy one. And, I've heard FUD about American cars since the 1970's, such as the of-repeated "fact" that everything breaks at 60,000 miles and such. I mean, just look at Macron and his wife. Great reading! Powered by Invision Community, The 19th Hole Lounge & Member Introductions, New Members Section -- Introduce Yourself & Stay Awhile! Upload or insert images from URL. About press car, Harris, as far as I know, reported just rumours and no facts. I think that you need to watch what you see on J.D. If you got to finance it, a 100K a year income couple can afford a new Honda Accord as the payments wont be beyond 10% of their annual income. Since I'm a typical function over form guy I regard those studies as almost the only facts important to me. You can post now and register later. And why is Jalopnik not reliable? It is good to hear that they regard the V drivetrains as reliable. Some non-negligible portion of them are either incarcerated pending trial because they were identified as a criminal perpetrator by a single witness, or are serving time because they were convicted of a crime based on the testimony of a single witness.
They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor conservative causes. • {{ article.symbol }} • Pasted as rich text. He told me, with absolutely no hint of irony in his voice (because Germans don't have the capacity for irony; just cleanliness), that modern German cars will "last forever."
My father in law is one of them. I think it was a 599. Yet he is apparently offended that the sales staff don't jump down his throat trying to sell him a new Ferrari? In their opinion real quality cars, not american crap. I for one use the JD Power dependability studies as a measuring tool to compare different brands in terms of reliability. {{ article.headline | getDecodedUnicode }}
There is a lot of good information there but the sampling is not controlled and the data is not verified, and lack of classification of "defects" and "warranty claims" can be misleading. Well at least I don't have to wear hearing protection over 50 mph. They seriously believed that their A4s and A6s were at least near luxury cars by the way. The only thing you can be certain of is that the component isn't bullet proof. /r/Cars is the largest automotive enthusiast community on the Internet. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. A lot of car makes have a culture that is imbued on the customer as part of the first sale and with any ensuing dealer service. After their bold statement they continued to discuss how much the dealer was going to charge for fixing their front suspensions which must be fixed at least every 60000 miles or so. Press J to jump to the feed. Anyway it's well known that press car from high end car manufacturers (Porsche, Ferrari) are more healthy than what you can buy at dealership.
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