Were the car-manufacturing industry based out of the North Pole, instead of Detroit, Southern Germany and Toyota City, my list to Santa and his elves would go something like this:
1) Quit nickel and diming me with this options bullshit. Let’s say I want to buy a Mazda3. Ok, I’m looking at a base price of about $19,000. Nineteen. Thousand. Dollars.
And if I want, say, a cargo net in the back, to keep things from rolling around? That’ll be $40. Give me a break. (more…)