Red Light Drama - Has something like this happened to you lately?

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I remember when I was a car salesman years back (99-02), and I usually worked at domestic dealers because the economy was relatively good then and this was prior to gas hitting $3+/gallon. Full size SUV's were the cars to sell then, because everyone leased them and you made pounders off them.

This old school white guy comes into the Dodge dealer I worked at to shop for a full sized truck, Dodge 3/4 tons or higher. And this was when Dodge did the face-lift and had their new-gen engines in their 2002 Rams i.e. 4.7 V-8 and on, the 318 and 360 engines were gone now.

To make the long story short...I told him our turbo diesel dually would outpull, outhaul any truck out there on the market: including the new Toyota Tundra and Nissan Titan (these came out around then and other customers cross shopped them). Then the old school white dude said something like, (in a rednecky twang) "I don't buy Jap-junk, tie-yo-tuhs, nih-sahns are nothing but regenerated scrap metal..."

I just thought it was funny because we're in S. Cali, and if you're square and stuck in the past, you ain't gonna make it here.