An Insider Account of the Car Business—and What You Should Really Know Before Buying a Car—From a Forty-Year Auto Industry Veteran.
This Car Sux! is my sincere attempt to offer a fuller understanding of the retail car business… we’ll explore the history of how all these entities combine to make the car-buying experience either a jolly rotten exercise or an efficient, if not actually enjoyable, one.
Since I’ve spent forty-two years in the business, I will also share pertinent anecdotes from my life to enliven the journey. I hope you’ll come along for the ride!
Advance Praise
“In THIS CAR SUX! Randy Pressgrove does an exemplary job of colorfully describing the process of getting an automobile from manufacturing through to the brand delivering it to dealerships and into the driveway of its new owner. . . You too may find yourself intrigued, curious, and perhaps tempted, as many of us have been, to wonder what it would be like to be a part of the dynamic story of the modern auto industry.”
John Szymanski, Vice-President, Holman Automotive Group
“With sharp insight and a storyteller’s flair, Pressgrove dishes out the good, the bad, and the ‘did-that-really-happen?’ of an industry that’s been both roaring and sputtering over the decades. If you’ve ever bought a car, sold a car, or been baffled by the whole process, this book is your backstage pass to the automotive circus.”
Don Hughes, Former Executive, Volkswagen of America
“Randy Pressgrove is our old-school car-guy guide to this strange and disappearing world, full of war stories and warnings of what to look out for when you go in search of that new car smell.”
Dan Albert, Author Of Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, And Driverless
Meet Randy
Forty-Year Global Automotive Industry Expert and Author
Randy Pressgrove is an automotive industry expert with more than forty years of experience, including sales and dealership development assignments across the world—from Memphis, Tennessee, to Saudi Arabia—with Mazda, Toyota, Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, and Kia. He holds a graduate degree in Scottish medieval history from the University of St Andrews, which he has not found to be professionally useful. He lives in New Jersey.
