Looking At Challengers On Autotrader

Kinja'd!!! "Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4)
11/19/2016 at 22:18 • Filed to: None

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This is at a damn Dodge dealership, how do you still get this wrong?

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About 30% of the Challengers I’ve looked at tonight are autos listed as manuals.

Also, I know these are cheap wheels but they look sooooo good on a Challenger:

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DISCUSSION (15)


Kinja'd!!! TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
11/19/2016 at 22:30

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But the paddles on the wheel let you change the gears yourself! That makes it a manual right?


Kinja'd!!! pip bip - choose Corrour > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
11/19/2016 at 22:31

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probably using idiots who don’t know their arse from their elbow.


Kinja'd!!! PS9 > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
11/19/2016 at 22:40

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What do you mean? Don’t you see the M logo on the gearshift? All the fun of choosing your own gears without the worrysome clutch. All gain no pain!

...until the ECU decides you don’t control your car anymore. Then all the gain goes away.


Kinja'd!!! Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
11/19/2016 at 22:40

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That style of wheel looks great on everything.


Kinja'd!!! PS9 > pip bip - choose Corrour
11/19/2016 at 22:41

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That’s pretty mean to people who were born with assholes on their elbows, man.


Kinja'd!!! JGrabowMSt > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
11/19/2016 at 22:41

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True fact, the cars are typically listed by the finance or accounting departments. No one that is into cars has anything to do with the listings.


Kinja'd!!! pip bip - choose Corrour > PS9
11/19/2016 at 22:44

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:D


Kinja'd!!! Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/19/2016 at 22:53

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Anything modern, not my favorite for classics.


Kinja'd!!! Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > PS9
11/19/2016 at 23:21

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It’s not even a dual clutch (the zf 8 speed is a great trans though)


Kinja'd!!! Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
11/19/2016 at 23:22

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Restomod/GT cars beg to differ. Hnnnnnng.

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Kinja'd!!! Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
11/19/2016 at 23:27

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Never trust a dealership to get anything correct.


Kinja'd!!! Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/19/2016 at 23:30

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Awful, just... awful.


Kinja'd!!! Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
11/19/2016 at 23:32

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I almost get it being listed as a manual because of the paddle shift. even though it’s wrong. However, listing the wrong transmission in the description is terrible.


Kinja'd!!! Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/19/2016 at 23:32

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I’m a professional racing driver then, because Forza!


Kinja'd!!! Haase > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
11/21/2016 at 14:41

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Dealers do not do this on purpose. Let me explain why.

I manage inventories for a large family of dealerships. Like most dealerships, we use a DMS to syndicate all of our inventory across Cars, AutoTrader, eBay, our main website, etc.

Because transmission information is not defined by the VIN, when it is decoded by the software within a DMS, it will display the standard transmission....Which is most cases, is a manual transmission.

So, it’s not that dealers want to label cars with paddle-shifters as manuals, but rather it’s evidence of their lack of effort to display their inventory correctly online.

This is just one of many little things that dealers fail to do when writing up their inventory. I take great pride in the quality of my dealership’s website and the experience it allows the customers to have.