What happens when a parking garage allows a complete stranger to walk in and steal your car? A dozen unreturned phone calls, a hundred non-commital responses and a refusal to own up to any blame.
automobiles
UPDATE: Sleazy Prius Deal Ends in Salesman’s Arrest Warrant
By 7.25.06
In the case of Prius sale gone wrong, Mark tells us that he met with a lawyer this weekend. The lawyer agreed to help sue Mr. Gentile, the salesman.Dan Wolf Toyota of Naperville. Yay. Lawsuits.
Drove My Chevy to the Levy But The Dealer Left Me Dry
By 7.20.06
Unlike Mark’s Prius story, there’s no confusion in this truck twister from Tennessee. Except, how did the dealership think they would get away with it?
UPDATE: Sleazy Prius Deal Ends in Warrant For Salesman’s Arrest
By 7.20.06
On Monday, we posted part of Mark’s story about how he tried to return a Toyota Prius and ended up incurring the wrath of vengeful salesman who placed obscene phone calls at all hours to his wife. A warrant is now out for the salesman’s arrest.
Earl Stewart on Cars
By 7.20.06
As many of our commenters justly pointed out in the comments of yesterday’s Confessions of a Car Salesman, the only way to truly avoid getting ripped off buying a car is to know what you want, know what it’s worth and have a spine.
Volvo Knows What Women Want: To Be Patronized.
By 7.17.06
Everyone knows that women are a menace to our automotive society. When they aren’t swerving at 100mph through school crossing zones, their eyes firmly rooted to the vanity mirror which they are using to apply a smear of pink bubble gum lipstick, they are driving down the highway with both hands off the wheel, using one to hold a cell phone to the side of their ditzy heads and scream “You go, girlfriend!” while the other makes air snaps.
Hooray, Hipsters! The Smart Car Is Coming!
By 7.5.06
Perhaps more resembling the foot of Voltron (the vehicle one, not the lions) than an actual car, I love the Smart. It can zoom right into the space between two SUVs nearly touching bumpers. It’s designed by Swatch, a company best known for making cheap plastic watches. And you can actually switch lanes on a freeway by driving under the carriage of a passing semi-trailer.
San Fran Kills SUV Limos With Hills
By 6.16.06
This is what happens when you take a stretch SUV limo through the hills and dales of San Francisco.
Arson To The Rescue When SUV Owners Can’t Afford Gas
By 6.14.06
Is the Charybdis of your SUV’s gas tank getting you down? Why not purge it in cleansing fire? For $300 dollars, a weasel in a black trench coat will be more than happy to steal your SUV for you and light it on fire so you can reclaim the insurance money. And you’ll even be in Rome: a spate of such arson crimes are sweeping California.
New Citroen C4 Ad Fails to Transform Our Hearts
By 6.7.06
Citroen has a much-anticipated transformer commercial out, building on the success and awards of its roboid predecessor (posted after the jump). This one features a robot speed-skating to the early summer fave electrohouse track “Walking Away” by The Egg. The first Citroen ad one gave us chills but this 30-second spot is over before it began. Instead, the Citroen should be figure-skating. Sorry guys, we’re still riding our bicycle.
Give Me The Crappy Tire I Paid For!
By 6.6.06
If we were our sister site Gizmodo, we’d be able to fill this brief prologue to Texas Teabag’s email about tire shopping in the Lone Star State with a 1:1 ratio of words to teabagging puns. Unfortunately, we’re not nearly as talented in the subtle art of the oral/anal/vaginal entendre; our more imaginative and literary readers will have to mentally superimpose these literary gems upon our description.
Big-O-Tires Rules
By 6.5.06
In a world filled with Hellacious (with a capital-H) customer service stories, I wanted to pass-on to you my positive experience today….
Toyota Recalls A Million Cars for Faulty Steering Wheel
By 6.1.06
If you own a Toyota Prius, you may want to bring it into your local dealership. Just pray that the steering wheel doesn’t break off in your hands on the way.
USAA Continues to Rule
By 5.31.06
In all the the various shenanigans and nightmare-drenched, neo-Kafka retellings of financial institution experiences, one company swoops to the top among Consumerist readers.
