Re: Wouldn't Ford be in better shape if the New Mustang had debuted THIS year?

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-Mike

-- A happy kid behind the wheel of a 98 Mustang GT Cold air intake FRPP 3.73 gears Steeda Tri-Ax Shifter Flowmaster 40 Series mufflers (self-installed woohoo) Hi-speed fan switch

It came up for me. I read a few of the stories and I have to say it sounds like it's dealers selling cars that have been seriously damaged and then pasted back together. Most of the stories I read had descriptions of damage that would indicate used cars. Things like the door striker being shimmed and the pillar screwed up, front end acting like it was bent with scractched body panels, hundreds of miles on so called new cars, etc etc.

I suspect that the dealers are taking cars that fell off the truck or were wrecked by dealer employees not fixing them properly and selling them as new. In other words, acting like typical car dealers of any make.

Just about every story had something in it that if I had been buying the car I would have simply walked out of the dealership upon seeing it before I bought the car.

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:53:13 -0600, snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (Brent P) wrote something wonderfully witty:

Hmm, I'm originally from Ny/Nj, don't know about buying a car that fell off the back of a truck, but I bought many a TV & Stereo that way though.

laff... well when a car falls off the truck, you *don't* want it, cause it really did fall off :)

at 18 Jan 2005, [ snipped-for-privacy@recorddeal.com] wrote in news:Vt6Hd.19959 $ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com:

Comes up fine but points to

at 18 Jan 2005, ZombyWoof [ snipped-for-privacy@Zappa.net] wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Ok, for us non NY/NJ folk, falling of the truck in this case is taken literally. Meaning some monkey screwed up (un)loading cars from the transporter truck and it fell off damaging the car.

I've seen it happen when they were loading cars on a transporter just after it had snowed so the parking lot and transporter ramp were slippery. They could not get this Volvo V40 onto the ramp and all the way up to the front on the top deck. So the owner comes out and decides he'll show them how you do it. Moves the V40 back, guns it and runs it all the way up the ramp at the first try. Smooth as silk. Only he can't stop in time and the car flies right of the front of the transporter truck and lands on the ground. Guy was unharmed, car wasn't.