Yeah, there's a Twilight Zone episode about a used car salesman... Bit of a caricature but makes it clear how that profession was perceived a few decades before

Yeah, there's a Twilight Zone episode about a used car salesman... Bit of a caricature but makes it clear how that profession was perceived a few decades before CarMax, Carfax, or the proliferation of consumer warranties. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whole_Truth_(The_Twilight_Zone) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whole_Truth_(The_Twiligh... That said I've recently driven reputable brands that have weird problems dealer mechanics can't even figure out. You can have bad cars with strange problems even today.