Weird things salesmen say
Safety Car
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From: Crofton MD
Originally Posted by BigJoe
Funniest I've heard was when I was standing on the side of a new C5 and a salesman and a young customer were standing at the back talking:
Cust: Where is the spare?
Sman: (Leaning over looking) It's underneath like all cars these days.
I couldn't let that pass, but the salesman didn't seem pleased to learn the truth...
Cust: Where is the spare?
Sman: (Leaning over looking) It's underneath like all cars these days.
I couldn't let that pass, but the salesman didn't seem pleased to learn the truth...
Pro
Joined: Feb 2004
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From: michigan
[QUOTE=Red_Racer]I suppose you trust Bush and Cheney's belief and comments that the war in Iraq is smashing success... or words to that effect...[/QUOTe
Would you call the first war a success back in 91, yes we won the battle but not the war. Whats happening now is exactly why we didnt stick around and finish the job back in 91. Sometimes the most unpopular things still need to be done. I would rather have someone do what they think is right than have someone tell me what I want to hear and do nothing.
Would you call the first war a success back in 91, yes we won the battle but not the war. Whats happening now is exactly why we didnt stick around and finish the job back in 91. Sometimes the most unpopular things still need to be done. I would rather have someone do what they think is right than have someone tell me what I want to hear and do nothing.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Oct 2001
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From: Southern California
[QUOTE=chriskaw7r]
What, are you crazy? What if in the '80s, the US had a stubborn President that decided to stand up to the USSR? Boy, the Europeans and the rest of the world would've been peeved about getting caught in the middle of that. Oh, wait, we DID have that, and the rest of the world's thankful the Cold War ended.
Okay, well what about if in the mid-1800s in the United States there was a bunch of states that wanted to secede. The easy, less expensive, in both money and lives, would be to just let them go. How outrageous it would be to have a President go to war over slaves! Is it ironic that Lincoln, one of the greatest Presidents, was also, in his time, one of the most unpopular?
You are absolutely on the money about unpopularity.
Wait, what was this topic about...?
Originally Posted by Red_Racer
...Sometimes the most unpopular things still need to be done. I would rather have someone do what they think is right than have someone tell me what I want to hear and do nothing.
Okay, well what about if in the mid-1800s in the United States there was a bunch of states that wanted to secede. The easy, less expensive, in both money and lives, would be to just let them go. How outrageous it would be to have a President go to war over slaves! Is it ironic that Lincoln, one of the greatest Presidents, was also, in his time, one of the most unpopular?
You are absolutely on the money about unpopularity.
Wait, what was this topic about...?
Melting Slicks
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Originally Posted by FRC_1
You know, I trust car sales people about as much as I would trust J. Kerry as president. They talk about the same. 
Exactly. Both seem to just go with the flow and say whatever you want to hear.
Melting Slicks
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Originally Posted by Red_Racer
I suppose you trust Bush and Cheney's belief and comments that the war in Iraq is smashing success... or words to that effect...
Melting Slicks
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I had a salesman at a dealership tell me something quite funny. I was with my brother test driving an 03 cobra. (He wanted one, not me.) The salesman told me "an 03 cobra was way faster than a Z06, and once the turbo got spooled up, it was gone"!! He said "theres pretty good lag time in the turbo, but once its spooled up fully, its really fast." I didn't know 03 cobras came with turbo's? I didn't know the Eaton roots blower has lag time? Theres no reason a car salesman can't learn a little something about the car he is trying to sell.
Melting Slicks
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Originally Posted by Sponge Vette
Lot attendant? Isn't that just another name for a Lot Porter 
Give the guy a break, he was trying to make the best of a bad situation. It was wrong of him to say that Vetts can't get there engine washed. He should of just told the Truth and blamed it on the clean up deparment, where the blame should fall on. Bottom line, he was trying to make a living like everyone on this forum
Give the guy a break, he was trying to make the best of a bad situation. It was wrong of him to say that Vetts can't get there engine washed. He should of just told the Truth and blamed it on the clean up deparment, where the blame should fall on. Bottom line, he was trying to make a living like everyone on this forum
Everyone knows there 2 types of car salesmen, the one that will look up things he doesn't know, or ask someone else, and the one that will just make up an answer at the moment, even if its entirely wrong. Simply put, there is the honest one, and there is the rip off. You don't seem to know the difference. 
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Racer
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: ft. Worth tx.
Originally Posted by Red_Racer
I suppose you trust Bush and Cheney's belief and comments that the war in Iraq is smashing success... or words to that effect...
Instructor
Joined: Aug 2003
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From: Miami Lakes FL
Before I got my vette (used) I was looking at some new ones at a local Chevy dealership. The salesman and I were chatting about the car...he asked me if I'm single (I was 27 at the time), and I said I was. He said, "that won't last too long if you get this car!". He referred to the car as a "panty-dropper". I couldn't help but laugh.
Burning Brakes
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From: Georgetown (Sun City) Texas
Originally Posted by geocor2003
My sentiments & then some about a cocaine addict ,several times DUI convicted , little rich kid who went in a country club (during the Nam conflict) called the "Texas Air National Guard".& even was awol most of the time from that haven for little rich kids who were too cowardly to serve in a war!Now he & "Cheatny" aka "Mr. Haliburton" will have no regrets to send middle class & poor kids to a place that they know will never embrace U.S. style government.These 2 "residents" of the White House have the gall to send others to a war, & an unwinnable one at that,when they were too chicken to serve themselves!
I knew from other posts that Red_Racer was a liberal whiner, seems you fit the mold also. You need to take this to another subject forum........