What vehicle do you drive?
- Thread starter Marmac
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Aren't those usually pre production vehicles at those shows? I'd be surprised if most of them don't have flaws.
Fucker
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Their production vehicles are just as bad.
I was at a Jeep dealership a few years ago. 100% of the Cherokees had plainly visible exterior panel/trim alignment issues. Some of them were even missing trim pieces. I didn't bother looking at the interiors.
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Sludig
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Fkkk wiped and buffed the turtle ceramic hybrid I usually like pretty well. Look at the car a week later and have some surface hazing in area's. Not sure if I can just attack it again with a clean microfiber or how fubared it might be. Still blame the absolute shit show of a detailer I did this summer that put who knows what on it. Can't trust reviews when your in trash state.
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Kobayashi
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Depends on the timing, usually if it's sufficiently early they'll just lock them or put them in a cordoned off stage.
I can tell you from experience from at least one OEM that they would have the entire paint job either touched up or redone, all the doors would be remounted, and they would go through and ensure every visible screw/bolt was in the same orientation. This was a mass market brand. That said, that was back when car shows mattered, OEMs are definitely not putting much budget into them anymore - they'd rather have an online event at a date and time of their choosing to unveil things.
Haus
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So they're building a new Quiktrip near my house. It's been a complete non-event in my world until I saw this sign go up with one big difference between it and any other gas station within a reasonable drive of my house...
Pickle officially tickled.
Pickle officially tickled.
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Kobayashi
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I always check Pure-gas.org - ethanol-free gasoline in the U.S. and Canada when I need to get gas for any small engines. More have it than you think and just do a shit job of advertising it or only have it on a few pumps. You might convert to rustling when they start putting up the price.
Maybe you'll be lucky and it won't be too bad though. Their gimmick back in the day was marketing E10 fuel as an 89 octane midgrade for 10 cents cheaper than the 87 they sold before everywhere switched over to E10 - my grandfather loved that place and bought into it hook, line, and sinker.
Side note: I wonder how much money they pissed away on that new logo. If it was more than the 5 bucks that could have been spent for the same uninspired output on fiverr, they overpaid.
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Kobayashi
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Shock the world you say...
An 8 cylinder supercar is interesting, but the MR2 is more interesting.
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Burren
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Fucker
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Good way to get shot in a lot of places. IMO, road rage penalty should be permanent loss of driver's license.
Burren
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Yeah. With dash cam evidence it would be easy to prosecute too.
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Hatorade
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Soygen
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Ready to ship, but still not on a boat. Slim chance I get by end of month, but likely early Jan with all the customs/port stuff to deal with.
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Soygen
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Hatorade
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