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  • If they took a sponsorship, then we should be looking into those sponsors.

    I get your point about it being difficult to give up going and I hope a lot of them are having some sleepless nights over it.

    By sending the couchfucker and a contingent of ICE goons, it is a political statement to be there. It’s not about the sport, it’s about the glorification of the Orange Rapist.



  • In most states, manufacturers are prohibited from selling directly to consumers.

    There are a variety of reasons for it, some were consumer-friendly (like preventing the manufactures from monopolizing repair/service), but it basically created a system of middlemen that raised costs.

    I worked at a Honda dealership in college and I learned a lot.

    For example, when you finance through a dealership, the dealer doesn’t actually put up any money. They find a 3rd party financer then tack on a few percentage points.

    Salespersons also earn higher commissions on dealer-provided upsales, such as window-etching, rust-preventative, custom badging, extended warranties, etc, so they try to push those things.

    Dealers are also locked into individual manufacturers, usually. That is, a “family” of dealerships, are actually multiple businesses, each with a contract with a different manufacturer.

    The person that owned the Honda dealership I worked at, owned others. On one side, they had a Pontiac-Buick-GMC dealer, then Chevy, Chevy truck, and Cadillac on the other side. Even they it was all General Motors, they were run separately. Down the street, they had a dealership that sold both new Toyotas and Subarus.