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Originally Posted by hackney
My local Honda dealer has quite a few orders for the Type R manual.They are not due until much later this year, or possibly next.As far as the Ridgeline goes,it is never going to happen.The market is already over saturated.The funny thing is though, the CRV is one of the top sellers in the North American market.
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My local Honda dealership doesn't exist anymore
When I started my apprenticeship there it had the busiest service department in the country out of all the Honda dealerships, 12 years later the dealership doesn't exist anymore.
With the Civic Type R orders it shows you that people have a want for their capabilities, it's a shame Honda turned their back on their performance car capabilities for a good 15 years.
Bringing it back on topic there's another toxic side to the dealership model in that some have an incentive scheme for the service advisors and mechanics that if they hit certain profit averages across the working week they can receive bonuses.
Dealerships and LV automotive pays SFA in general, so they dangle the carrot to lowly paid people and it encourages poor and unethical behaviour when you set basic KPIs on gross profit figures without proper context around them - the amount of power steering flushes, AC deodorises and brake pad changes I did on near new cars that the service advisors upsold was ridiculous.
Banks have had a similar issue in the past but they got pulled up in an inquiry where their dodgy predatory behaviour got aired to the public.