{"id":2193,"date":"2006-02-18T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2006-02-18T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T14:53:00","slug":"thinking_differ_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2193","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Different About the Car Sales Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/content\/1140283060960290969\/index.php\">Robert Farago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>First, there were no cars. Why anyone selling an expensive product would want potential customers to contemplate a large number of them is beyond me; &ldquo;pile &lsquo;em high and sell &lsquo;em cheap&rdquo; is programmed into us on the genetic level. Second, Phaeton customers were isolated, indoctrinated and, most importantly of all, relaxed. The average car dealer&rsquo;s showroom is more uncomfortably exposed than a public urinal and less relaxing than a dentist&rsquo;s chair.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Farago: First, there were no cars. Why anyone selling an expensive product would want potential customers to contemplate a large number of them is beyond me; &ldquo;pile &lsquo;em high and sell &lsquo;em cheap&rdquo; is programmed into us on the genetic level. Second, Phaeton customers were isolated, indoctrinated and, most importantly of all, relaxed. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}