Well, this is a new one: A woman in Toledo, Ohio got a major victory when a judge awarded her a court order against a dealership that sold her a faulty car, but it all fell apart when she went to collect and found out the goddamn dealership closed. Welp, Used Car Prices Are Rising … Read more
Gif: ABC7 Los Angeles YouTube There was chaos in Los Angeles this week as two takeovers happened in the same night, resulting in vehicles set ablaze and broken windows at a nearby dealership. LA’s ABC 7 reports the first of the two takeovers happened around midnight on September 3rd in South Los Angeles. Footage shows … Read more
Image: NurPhoto (Getty Images) An Arizona dealership group is out millions of dollars over what sadly has nearly become normal dealer activity. The dealer is accused of fraud, misleading advertising and worse, being racist. Kia Dealers Dead Last in Customer Satisfaction Survey Phoenix’s NBC 12 reports that after an investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris … Read more
Image: Google Street View A New Orleans man was arrested after he attempted to steal an Audi during a test drive on July 30. Reginald Vaughn went to an Audi dealership in the Louisiana town of Metairie to check out a few cars. When he went on a test drive, accompanied by an employee, things … Read more
Image: Spurr Chevrolet A Chevy dealership in upstate New York has a horrible used car for sale; a 2011 Ford Focus, and boy, is it in bad shape. It is likely one of, if not the worst, used car I’ve ever seen for sale through a dealership. The Ford Focus RS Is A Great Car … Read more
One of the worst things that can happen when buying a new car is finding out that you didn’t actually get approved for it after the fact. Some car buyers are catching on to the bullshit sales tactic and fighting back, like one customer who’s suing the dealership that screwed him over with “yo-yo financing.” … Read more
It seems like there’s almost never a time when a car dealership doesn’t do something wrong. From selling a car that a customer brought in for repair to taking a customer’s money and then making them go through hell to get it back, even simply doing what they’re in business to do can turn into fraud. … Read more
CDK Global, a software platform designed to streamline car sales that’s in use at nearly 15,000 dealerships across North America, has been hamstrung for several days due to cyberattacks, and dealers may feel the effects for years. Car dealerships have been riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels since the onset of the pandemic rattled … Read more
Taking your car in for service is always a pain. It’s even worse when the dealer needs to keep your car, and hands you a loaner — sure, it gets you to work and back, but you need to re-pair your phone and re-save all your radio stations. Worst of all, though, is when the … Read more
Image: Kia A sucker walks into a new car dealership every minute. Dealership showroom floors are practically delivery rooms for freshly-born suckers. There are shiny new cars on the floor, and rapacious young sales professionals just waiting to lure you into something you can’t afford, don’t need, or otherwise shouldn’t own. I’ve seen them work … Read more
