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I found out recently that a VERY distant relative used to own it, Stephen Ranney. Ever been up to the top floor? They have a pair of $16,000 speakers sporting Ferrari's Rosso Corsa paint. Also when I heard them it sounded like I was sitting in-studio listening to Hendrix jam.

patriots fan here just passing through on my way to the SB :bangbang:

The quality of sound is dependent more on the quality of the needle you're using. a more modern table will give you better options in terms of high quality sound, and have many features to enhance sound quality that old ones don't, such as anti-skating tonearms (which improve sound quality and decrease the amount of wear on your vinyl) source: my audiophile roommate who worked at Progressive Audio for 3 years

this exact car: http://www.gotengines.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/1996.buick_.roadmaster.1350-396x249.jpg also this, i clearly have a secret fetish for wagons http://image.motortrend.com/f/roadtests/wagons/10715685+pheader/112_0808_01l+2010_cadillac_CTS_sport_wagon+side_view.jpg EDIT: fucking red-x pictures

call him ace

thats nice, if you wanna let your car do the driving for you

I'm seeing varying #s for angles of approach/departure on Touareg. Most 2011 reviews cite it as 26/26deg, older publications cite 33/33deg. Is that a function of the optional air suspesion? If its 26/26, thats pathetic.

Just finished actually reading that article. It was clearly written by someone who has not only not driven a single one of those cars, but got all his information from looking up standard vs. optional cold weather accessories. Really, though, given the website, he's just writing that article to make the idiots who listen to Jim Cramer and buy Cayenne S or drop $50k on Touareg feel better about their retarded purchase.

and it weighs almost 3 tons so once you start sliding, NOTHING will stop you. @CarWhore I wish I had a picture I took over the summer of my friend's H2 getting pulled out of a muddy ditch by a Wrangler. EDIT: I'm currently looking at JD Power's 2010 Vehicle Dependability Study. Car makes were ranked based on "Problems per 100 vehicles". Top 5: Porsche (110), Lincoln (114), Buick (115), Lexus (115), Mercury (121). Bottom 5: Land Rover (255), Suzuki (253), VW (225), Jeep (222), MINI (203).

there's a reason you see a lot of doctors/local businessmen meeting for lunch at Mr. Sushi; its economical and delicious.

whenever someone's roadraging/following me, i just take them on a nice tour of town on my way to the police station...

http://wachusettbeverages.com/web_images/polar_bb.jpg so good edit: i love that its just a log and a polar bear on the logo

Tyfoon, Shoku, and Black Olive. Never had food at Black Olive but the others are good. Halloween last year I guess he was having a private party at Tyfoon that not enough people showed up at, so my friends and I got waved in for free; free booze all night, free sushi all night.

these things tend to result in a stripped out shell being found in someone's yard on the Hilltop, don't they? I live semi-near there I'll keep an eye out.

Yup. As of January 1. Say goodbye to Mariner, Grand Marquis, Milan, and Mountaineer forever. Lincoln will replace them with 7 new/redesigned models over the next 4 years.

In most cases, you can probably get a better deal at a smaller dealer as they value the individual and will take a bit more off the front end to earn your business. However I'm definitely not an expert so my opinion should be taken as observation and not fact. EDIT: We buy the cars at invoice and sell them at $xxxxx. We can do dealer trades and even buy other cars outright from competing dealers. For instance, with the impending death of the Mercury brand, every Lincoln/Mercury dealer is trying to get the Mercs off the lot by Jan 1 so every dealer is open to trading them. However, a dealer with a shortage of Lincoln MkZs will probably not trade an MkZ to another dealer in the same town in the hope that the prospective customer will come to their dealership.

The dealerships can make more $$ from banks/financing than in the actual sale price of the vehicle. Which is why we hate it when people come in and say "Well you tell your manager I'm paying cash, and I expect a discount because of that".

I'm the same as CarWhore. One or two of my coworkers are the sleazy do-anything-to-increase-gross guys and I think its despicable. I'd rather sell someone a car for invoice and have them be happy to send their friends/family to me than make $2000 commission on a deal that I know the customer will regret making in 3 months. ESPECIALLY in the case of car history, my experience is that when you tell someone about a problem with the car (accident/vehicle history issue) without them asking, they're more likely to buy a car from you because they value honesty as much as a great deal. That said, there are many customers who DONT value honesty over a good deal. These are the people who expect you to sell every car at invoice and who are insulted if you try to earn any money for the dealership. I actually had a prospect call me back after he bought his car from Milt Taylor to tell me I was a crook of a salesman for trying to sell him a car for $43,000, because his buddy at Milt Taylor found out that $43000 was $500 over invoice. God forbid we, a BUSINESS (not charity), actually try to turn a profit. I told him I was sorry I couldn't earn his business, but I look forward to seeing him in our service department. He handled that quite *ahem* maturely.

buyers are liars

Amen

I'll take that into consideration in my future car sales career

Not trying to offend, but have you worked in car sales? Sometimes having a competing salesman with customers on the same car is your greatest asset when negotiating a deal. If a prospective buyer has a sense of urgency, your negotiating position improves dramatically. Likewise, if a vehicle has not sold for 9 months, your negotiating position is dramatically hurt. Its all about overcoming those obstacles, and judging by how his buyer has treated the car deal, he's just trying to get as much money off as possible; the bottom line is that he has the funds available to purchase the car (likely at the $4200 asking price) he's just looking to get a deal. You don't want to burn bridges by saying "take it or don't" because should he decide not to take it, you've got to crawl back to him and say "please take it." If you give the impression that you're pitting buyers against each other, you can go back and say "well my other buyer backed out but I'm willing to honor our $3600 deal" without looking like you're desperate to sell.

A couple things: -If he's nitpicking little things about the car, it means he's interested enough to look in extreme detail at the car. -After asking you to call him and you didn't, he called you. Didn't even follow the new girl rule of waiting 3 days. He DEFINITELY wants the car. -He's haggling with you like crazy; throwing numbers all over the place. He wouldn't take your $3700 offer because he thought he could strongarm you by walking away. It didn't work; he's getting antsy now. My advice, from a car salesman perspective: tell him you've got another offer at 3700 with the tires that are on it and you're inclined to take it, but you wanted to offer him right of first refusal. The reason he called you back this morning was because he hasn't found another car he wants as much as yours, and he won't let it go. When you call him and get $3700 and keep your good tires, let me know how much you're gonna cut me in for increasing your gross profit :bangbang: EDIT: Also, KBB is no longer really a valid way to value a car. Edmunds.com True Market Value calculator is much more accurate and disappointing, but it reflects reality a bit more accurately.

ok so if you can do anything you want in OC, then why did you run a slower car/time than your PMC car?