So, have a puppy farm. If you have a few Australian Shepards mixed with German Shepards or Labradors, the women might come over to check them out. People look for blue-eyed big dogs.
Selling anything is an art. You can usually figure out who is really ready to buy and who is considering whether to buy something new or keep the old car for another year or two. These are the typical people who go to the new car dealership. There are the time killers who have to wait until the wife gets her hair done or the kid gets his root canal and are looking for something to do. They send that out pretty well to most observers. If you don't learn how to interpret what you observe, you wont sell many cars. You learn how people walk around the car and look at the engine. You see if he's trying to convince his wife at how much room there is in the trunk. You can figure out what his body language is saying if he folds his arms when the other salesman approaches him. It's all there. You just have to do some thinking about what to do and when to do it.
Better mileage, cheaper, easier to repair, more control - there's a lot of reasons for a manual transmission. The main one is if you hafta replace it, you spend a lot more money. The convenience of automatic comes at a high price. Try and fix one sometime. You have to replace as many clutches as you have gears if you rebuild it.
Yup! I don't ever think about what gear I'm in or how fast the engine is revving. It's much more the sound and the situation is feeling right. I think I generally am looking around for something unusual that might happen. I guess that's driving defensively. But, it's really so matter of fact. It's certainly not at all distracting. What other thing am I so interested in that shifting gears would distract me? When I'm driving, I'm paying attention to driving well.
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There are the time killers who have to wait until the wife gets her hair done or the kid gets his root canal and are looking for something to do. They send that out pretty well to most observers. If you don't learn how to interpret what you observe, you wont sell many cars. You learn how people walk around the car and look at the engine. You see if he's trying to convince his wife at how much room there is in the trunk. You can figure out what his body language is saying if he folds his arms when the other salesman approaches him. It's all there. You just have to do some thinking about what to do and when to do it.
You have to replace as many clutches as you have gears if you rebuild it.