<VV> Re: Car buyers' education

[Thesuperscribe at cs.com]

Hey, even back in '62, when I bought my Monza coupe new, I knew a lot about 
it before visiting a dealer because I read Motor Trend and other magazines. 
Then as now, the mags were good and writing up the new models and if you read the 
articles, you probably knew more than the salesmen about the car(s). 

I knew I wanted a Corvair from reading about them and seeing them on the 
street, and a test drive just verified what I felt. You don't need the Internet to 
educate yourself, but it sure makes it easier and faster.

--Tom Berg

In a message dated 1/2/2006 1:43:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org [mhicks130 at cox.net] writes: 
> It's a little different now with all the internet resources but back in the 
> day, the only way to learn about a car was to go to dealer and ask questions 
> and check it out.  Yeah, sometimes you "wasted" a salesman's time but it's 
> not unreasnable for people who are about to spend a bunch of dough to 
> investigate what they're buying first. ...