For those of you renting your vehicles on TURO be very careful. I have owned a rental company for over 10 years now in LA with 30+ cars, many people don't understand how bad Hertz, Enterprise, Avis want TURO gone. It first started with them getting TURO banned from all Major Airports, when that didn't work they have gone the route of getting a third party service to basically snitch to your finance company that you are renting your vehicle. They do this by hiring a service to go on TURO and specifically screen shot license plate pictures and match them to finance companies.

The best thing you can do at this point it NEVER show your real license plate on your photos, they are making it their mission to do a sweep all 2022 on vehicles "illegally" being rented on TURO. For anyone who doesn't know any personal vehicle that is leased or financed is a breach of contract renting a personal vehicle out for profit or commercial use. This is the loop hole allowing these companies to legally come repo your car for being on TURO.

This is a pretty low approach the financial institutions and dealerships are talking but on the flip side in 2021 their was a record number of wrecked vehicles who's loans were defaulted on and linked back to being rented on TURO.

I didn't know how true this was until it just happen to a friend of mine, he had 4 Charger Scat Packs repo'd by Ally Financial that he had listed on TURO. They just showed up and took the cars. Imagine having not 1 but 4 repos hit your PERSONAL credit.

The biggest banks doing this right now are Ally Financial, GM, Ford and Mercedes.

Take the necessary steps while you can they are cracking down on personal vehicles being rented for profit.

Other brands should follow suit


The C8 Corvette Stingray is in its third model year and demand is showing no sign of dropping off. Now with the highly-anticipated 2023 Corvette Z06 right around the corner, weÂ’ve become very concerned about how some Chevrolet dealers are looking at the new American sports car as a cash cow with plans to generate as much profit as possible above and beyond the CorvetteÂ’s ManufacturerÂ’s Suggested Retail Pricing (MSRP) at the expense of Corvette buyers.


As more and more stories about dealer malfeasance come to light that includes everything from demanding thousands of dollars in Market Adjustments after the car arrives to intentionally screwing up orders so that customers walk away from the deal, itÂ’s become apparent to GM that it really needs to start policing their dealers better when it comes to selling these in-demand vehicles. And it is not just the C8 Corvette that dealers are targeting for huge price increases. We also have the upcoming Silverado EV, the GMC Hummer EV, and the Cadillac LYRIC which have also garnered much interest from consumers.

WeÂ’ve already heard about ChevyÂ’s new plan for allocations and itÂ’s still something weÂ’ll have to wait to see if by moving to an Average Daily Supply model will nudge dealers to stay with pricing the cars at MSRP. Not waiting around is GMÂ’s North American President Steve Carlisle who fired this recent warning shot by telling dealers straight up that they risk having their vehicle allocation redirected to other dealers who arenÂ’t being bad actors in the new car sales process.

Dear GM Dealership Team,

We are all very excited about recent GM news and product launches including the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC HUMMER EVs, GMC Sierra EV, and Cadillac LYRIQ. At the same time, we have both been working hard to meet customer demand in a time of constrained supply of inventory due to the global industry-wide semi-conductor shortage.

Unfortunately, it has come to our attention that in connection with some of these announcements and launches, a small number of Dealers have engaged in practices that do not support a positive sales experience for our customers. This puts our collective interests at risk and generates negative press that reflect poorly on GMÂ’s brands and your dealerships. Specifically, it has come to our attention that some dealerships have attempted to demand money above and beyond the reservation amounts set in GMÂ’s program rules and/or have requested customers to pay sums far in excess of MSRP in order to purchase or lease a vehicle.

First, I want to remind you that GM dealers are obligated to ethically and lawfully sell GM Products, as stated in Article 5 of the Dealer Sales and Service Agreement:

“Dealer agrees to effectively, ethically and lawfully sell and promote the purchase, lease and use of Products by consumers…”

“Dealer agrees to advertise and conduct promotional activities that are lawful and enhance the reputation of Dealer, General Motors and its Products. Dealer will not advertise or conduct promotional activities in a misleading or unethical manner, or that is harmful to the reputation of Dealer, General Motors, or its Products.”

Providing customers misinformation about additional sums being necessary for a customer to keep a reservation, is just one example of a tactic that reflects poorly on all of us.

Secondly, we have been advised that brokers are promoting new GM vehicle allocation. While the majority of GM Dealers do not support such behavior, a small number of Dealers still continue to work with brokers despite the following reminders that this is a direct breach of the GM DSSA: Bulletin #20-06 “Transactional Integrity and GM Export Policy” dated July 1, 2020, and Bulletin #21-17 “Sale for Resale or Export” dated November 22, 2021. As stated in Article 5 of the Dealer Sales and Service Agreement: “Dealer agrees that it will not sell new Motor Vehicles for resale” and “Dealer is not authorized . . . to . . . sell Motor Vehicles to persons or parties (or their agents) engaged in the business of reselling, brokering (including but not limited to buying services) or wholesaling of Motor Vehicles.”

GM will be forced to take action if it learns of any unethical sales practices or brokering activities that undermine the integrity that customers expect from the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac brands. For the small minority of bad actors that are engaging in the conduct identified above, this letter serves as notice that GM reserves the right to redirect your vehicle allocation or take other recourse prescribed by the Dealer Sales and Service Agreement.

If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to your Zone Manager.

Regards,

Steve Carlisle
President GM North America


For the record, this was a way better response to dealers than what we saw from ChevroletÂ’s Director of Car and Crossover Marketing, Tony Johnson who told us GM wasnÂ’t too concerned about Corvette dealer markups a year ago. GM should rightly be concerned especially when the C8 Corvette is bringing in many customers who are buying from Chevrolet/GM for the first time ever. You only get one shot to make a good first impression!
 https://www.corvetteblogg .. tments-on-z06/

Electric Vehicles are the future. Rivian walked the TRX

WhatÂ’s up fellas , I thought I was done with the hellcats for a while. But something keeps bringing me back to them. HereÂ’s my 3rd hellcat pickup

Hood Classics

The GR Yaris, Toyota's most exciting new car, exists because CEO Akio Toyoda was willing to make the best possible subcompact road car in pursuit of a more competitive professional rally car. The resulting car is already uncompromising, but Toyota's Gazoo Racing badging system goes up one more trim level, so there was room in the lineup to make an even less compromising performance car on the two-door Yaris platform. Enter the GRMN Yaris.
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The GRMN name historically means "Gazoo Racing Master of the Nurburgring," which lines up with footage of a Yaris prototype that likely became this car testing on the German track last summer. While it's known in marketing materials as a GRMN Yaris, footnotes clarify that it will be officially registered as GR Yaris GRMN. Yes, that's Toyota Gazoo Racing Yaris Gazoo Racing Master of the Nurburgring.

Some of these options will be available to standard GR Yaris owners later in 2022. For those in Japan who cannot wait, the GRMN Yaris will be a 500-car run sold by an online lottery over the next few months. The base car is priced at the equivalent of $64,300, while the circuit pack takes the price to an MSRP equivalent to $74,400.

 https://www.msn.com/en-us .. n=true#image=1


For more details,  https://toyotagazooracing.com/gr/yaris/

Seems pricey, but for a 2-door hatchback with wide-body fender flares and high power-to-weight ratio, it seems worth it.

Going with the Widebody Scat ChallengerÂ…coupe looks better as a Widebody.

itÂ’s like a Porsche Benz

Let me see y'all's

This is bananas. Gotta cop this just to race away from cops and change colors so they cant catch me

 https://www.motorious.com .. car-ownership/





Expect this nonsense to start trickling in United States where one particular party is very hostile to car culture.

 https://www.usnews.com/ne .. ers-are-aghast

If you got a hooptie in decent shape now is da time to get rid of it if u wanna offload it.

Race starts @ 15: 50

fellas, as you know, cars are my thing.
you have all seen my last 3 purchases within the past year.

now i have decided to start a youtube channel to show the joys of automobile lifestyle





below, ima drop the link for anyone to
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 www.youtube.com/user/iskatenikes

if there are ppl in NYC, DMV, ATL, Florida, Houston, or LA that want to create content, dont hesitate to hit me up.