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QOTD: "You Are Full Of Shit" – Ralph Gilles to Donald Trump

by Derek Kreindler
(IC: employee)
November 1st, 2012 3:55 PM
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Pursuant to our continued discrediting of the “ Jeeps built in China” lie, Donald Trump took to Twitter to further propagate that falsehood. And the Donald ended up getting a virtual earful from Ralph Gilles, head of Chrysler’s SRT Division.
The Trump tweet that launched a thousand shits reads as such
Obama is a terrible negotiator. He bails out Chrysler and now Chrysler wants to send all Jeep manufacturing to China–and will!
Gilles took a direct and concise course of action, one that may even qualify him for a Farley Award. Now, if I can find an auto exec willing to rebut a silly question from a journalist inquiring why their new product’s rear sway bar isn’t 2mm thicker, I will die a happy man.
Published November 1st, 2012 3:55 PM
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Geeber, just keep reading consumer reports and taking your car to the shop every time it needs fixed.
My point was not how often you may take your car to the shop, but that if something were to go wrong you would have to because you don't know a carburetor from a door handle. But you could probably tell me which auto plant was the first to have vending machines.
Right.
And that's what sets us car guys apart from the general public. Say for example a certain vehicle is notorious for eating stabilizer links at around 50k miles. They cost around 10-15 bucks apiece for most vehicles and take about 5 minutes per side to install. A car guy would buy the links and install them himself. If someone asks him about the service of his car he would say something along the lines of "it's been a good car, only thing I've done to it is replace the stabilizer links." The general public is not like that, though. They would have to take it to a shop and most likely leave it for a day and get charged a couple hundred bucks for labor and ripped off for the price of the links. Then they will complain and fill out their survey, telling about how the car cost them money and spent a day in the shop.