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> walk into a car dealership looking for a small car and they will tell you they are out of stock of new ones of the model you want because the factory washed o
by jonny_eh 2y ago
> walk into a car dealership looking for a small car and they will tell you they are out of stock of new ones of the model you want because the factory washed out in a flood
Are you making this up?
- jrockway 2y agoA major difficulty in buying a car in the US is lowering your tolerance for sleaze enough to complete the transaction.
- Spooky23 2y agoTotally real. Post-COVID especially car dealers will make up all sorts of nonsense. Try to buy a base Civic or Corolla. They’ll literally run off and hide.
- PaulHoule 2y agoNo, it happened when I bought my Honda Fit.
- hysan 2y agoAnecdata - We had to buy a car last year to replace our old, but failing car. This matches the experience we had. We were ok with used, so that’s what we ended up with. If you’re on a tight budget, that’s where you’ll end up. From what we read and from what dealers said at the time, car manufacturers hadn’t recovered from COVID supply chain issues. And that is why there were so few small cars. We just accepted that as reality, but parent comment’s explanation would also make sense.