2003 MIB said:
Where's the Chevy Citation and its siblings????? Worst car ever!:bigcry:
Ah, yes, the Citation. WAPOS! I had a burgundy X-11 for a demonstrator back in the days I sold medium duty trucks for a Houston chevy dealer. It had what you could call a growl, but when you got on it the torque steer was terrible and the thing kinda squatted down on it's butt. I'm ashamed to admit I sold a number of these beasts to the citizenry of Harris County, Texas, two of which were X-11's. Dealers didn't usually stock them because they were more expensive than the regular Citations and people buying Citations bought them because they were cheap, once dealers had discounted the hell out of them to get them off their lots. My dealership had an inventory of Citations that were TWO MODEL YEARS old.:depress: One of the X-11's I sold to a Vietnamese guy, young dude, worked in his family's restaurant. He came in looking for an X-11, and I told him he'd be damn lucky to find one on any lot anywhere, and if he did, there'd be a good chance it had been sitting there for months. So, he wanted to ORDER ONE!!! Cool! I loved ordering cars, and this was a first. Only my sales manager and the dealer insisted the guy put down a $1000 cash deposit NON REFUNDABLE before they would take the order. I can still hear the dealer saying to me "Carlson, I get stuck with this f***ing X11 and it's YOUR A*S! He took delivery and was thrilled with the car, but utimately there was some kind of weird problem with the suspension that never got resolved to his satisfaction. It made some odd "bonnnngggg" sound at speed when you would run over an expansion strip on the freeway, but the service manager nor the Chevrolet rep could find anything wrong with the car once it was on the lift. The other X-11 sale was an inventory unit that had been dealer traded to us a year and a half before I sold it. It was an incredibly ugly beige color
uke: At the time it was the oldest car in inventory, two model years behind the current cars. I can't imagine what the dealer had lost on this turd in floor plan alone, but there was a $500 spiff to anyone who sold it regardless, so I put this guy in it who traded this clapped out Pontiac. He was hard to get financed, had little to put down, and we had to take it in the shorts on the car to qualify him with GMAC. There was an enormous loss on this car, so if it weren't for the spiffI would have made only the $25 minimum fee. At the last stop in the finance department he starts renegotiating the deal, throws a fit, demands his trade back, gonna go somewhere else, yadda yadda.I calmly ask him what is the problem, how can I make him happy with his new car? He says he wants a cassette player in the stereo and the car rust proofed. I say no problem, I'll have make ready take care of it right now. Sales manager blew up when I told him how I fixed the deal, saying no way are we gonna lose more money on this deal. I say, hey, deduct it from my spiff. So, delivered the car and still walked away with $300 cash that day.
Some day I need to tell the story about the Z-28 and the female porn star who bought it....
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