IT"S FRIDAY POSBANG THREAD!
coming from a ____ with a picture of a gun as his avatar...
love,
jdon
I just clenched my anus after reading your avatar asking me to prepare it. Now I pondering if the way this has altered 2 seconds of my life now changes everything and my entire future. What blessing or woe has your avatar wrought upon me?
How many times do I have to tell people it's not loaded, the magazine is empty and the firing pin has been removed? And there aren't any sights on it. But I could fix that at any moment, Ewok.
Fall back
We don't need no stinkin' Daylight Saving Time, we have waaay too much daylight here as it is....
That's good. It gets us one hour closer to Selection Sunday.
This is my favorite time of the year. I gladly lose that silly one hour in exchange for an extra hour of daylight every single day for the next 8 months. To me this is officially the end of Winter and beginning of Spring. SPRING AHEAD!!!!
Half day of work, lunch at Tilted Kilt, Golf show in Novi, then Michigan Hockey in AA!!! BANG AWAY!!!!!
Nice, I do like Tilted Kilt. The ladies there have very nice boo...err, drink specials. Yes, they have very nice drink specials.
I think you were looking for the word "hands".
No. I'm pretty sure "boobs" is the word he was looking for. Actually, I'm 100% sure.
This is more of an "ass" type place, Hooters is just a few feet away for the "boobs" people.
Dammit... I'm totally jelly of you. I get to work all day then go visit my mom who's making me minestrone soup. At least I get to spend some time with my 5 year old nephew which is decent hangin since he's a funny little dude. Regardless, your Friday > mine.
IMAX 300 sequel. So you will be more tempted to throw your raisinetts at the Sparties that will undoubtly be there.
This man high-fiving a bobcat!?
Oh yeah man... Tanned Tommy must go down... Between his fake bake, butt part haircut and current winning streak against us, Tanned Tommy must lose.
Haven't noticed anyone from Orlando on the boards before. Are you guys from here or vacationing?
My 18 mo. old, wife, and I were all sick. Not fun. But, indeed - take solace we are outright champs and you're not at work.
Well done.
And a few cocktails.... It's been a looooooooooong week.
Happy Friday, errybody.
making Crean cry. I hear they are on the way.
Still in the process of trying to buy a new car. I can't believe how tough it is to order a car and get it at a reasonable price. Hopefully I'll have this all wrapped up by Monday.
That's the hardest way to get a "good price". Dealers know you're more likely to pay more for a car that you configure yourself, so the incentive for them to negotiate on price is greatly minimized.
The manufacturers and dealers are motivated to move the metal on the lot. If you can find something that's close to what you're looking for, negotiate the price you're willing to pay for it.
I couldn't agree with you more. Unfortunately there arn't any in the region that the dealer could find and production orders cease for that particular car in 3 weeks.
For the most part, they think they "have me over a barrel" and if they can order it, then I'm going to have to pay a premium. Today I'm going to go to a couple local dealerships and see what they can come up with. Then at that point, make the best financial decision.
See, now I'm just wondering what car you're looking for with orders ending in 3 weeks that means it's something with an all-new 2015 model coming out this fall (summer tooling changeover). I would guess that you want an F-150, but those are all over the place and easy to get. I'm going with you want to get a Mustang with the solid axle before those go away.
You nailed it. Originally I was looking at the 2014 mustang gt500 and production on those ended last November. I found 1 that had everything I wanted but the Recaro racing seats were too uncomfortable for me. Plus that car really isn't a daily driver. Especially in the colder months.
The car I want to order is a 2014 mustang gt california special, fully loaded. I've been going back and forth with a couple dealerships about trade in value on my car along with invoice pricing to come up with a reasonable deal. A win win scenerio for everyone.
If you get one with an automatic, it's got parts that come out of my plant and that I helped design.
My boss has a 2004 Mustang GT, he claims his biggest regret in life was selling his 69 mustang back when... best of luck with it!
Thank you. This will be my 4th mustang (all I've ever owned). I currently have a 2003 mustang gt. Its been a great car. The car I want is an automatic and it's pretty cool that I get to talk to someone who had a hand in designing and manufacturing it. I bet your boss will have the opportunity to own a '69 again. Thanks again!
I don't think he'll ever get rid of the 2004. Most of the development work on the 6R80 is driven (ha!) by the F-150 because of volumes, etc. and it was designed and in production well before my time here, but I have had a small hand in some of its upgrades/development
I wanted a black car with a manual transmission, they traded for one (they were thrilled to get rid of the beige one I drove. Good luck selling beige to someone who wants 3 pedals). Dealers trade cars all the time, they should be able to find you what you want.
A good option is to call a second dealer, let them know that you're having trouble getting the car you want, see what they'll do for you. Another option that helps with haggling is Costco - they have deals set up for member prices at lots of dealerships. Both of these options give you leverage over the dealer that you're dealing with. As soon as they know that you can happily get your car elsewhere for a better price, they'll haggle.
Every car I have ever owned (going back 30 years) has had a stick- it always feels wierd to me (or my left foot, anyway) to drive an automatic. But in my next car, all of my excuses for driving a stick no longer hold true- the 8-speed(!) paddle-controlled automatic accellerates faster and gets better gas mileage than the manual.
Also wierd is test-driving a Tesla- no transmission! With the lack of engine noise, it feels like it accelerates extremely quickly, but in actual 0-60 times (for a reasonable version of the car) it was no quicker than my last car- 5.5 sec.
And real world mileage. I prefer a manual so I drive one. I also get better than epa mileage regularly, while that's much harder to do in automatics because of how the EPA tests.
Also, can I ask which car you're looking at? Most likely my company has parts in it, as we do in most 8 speed autos, but depending on the model I may have worked on localizing the parts to NA myself!
Since I keep asking, I'm currently in a VW CC 2.0T 6M and my next car is most likely going to be a GTI, but the Focus ST will get a fair shot too.