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      04-07-2026, 01:53 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by Phillies8008 View Post
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Your sadly is my happily. We all choose to pay for things that have meaning for us, and paying a bit extra to avoid a miserable situation is well worth the money for me. I assure you that there are things that others pay for that I see little or no value in, but that doesn't mean they're not worthwhile for that person.

What's sad is that the large majority of dealers make buying a car so odious that people will pay extra to avoid dealing with them. A manufacturer-direct model can't come quick enough (but it probably won't).
Light heartedly I'll say, "To choose not to negotiate is in itself a negotiation"...

Yup, one can say that about most anything.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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