This makes me want to cry...everyone is so norma and polite...car buying was so much more fun with all the negotiation and also the cars were on the lots too. Now it's a gong show...
Those sales reps are clueless. Guy pops the hood and then explains the type of glass Ford uses for the headlights. Brother, the guy wants an Explorer without leather seats. Find him one instead of listing off useless facts and features.
Funny thing is that it’s not glass, it’s Lexan plastic, which is a polycarbonate that is more resistant to chipping. The word glass should’ve never been brought up. Also, he goes on to glorify generic halogen lights as to say “for awareness”😂
It drove me, nuts! 😂😂😂 I work at a Nissan dealership but most of the dealers there have been working there for over 25 years so they’re very experienced
@@mustbetrue1602 i can make you feel old i was born in 2001 and i currently have a mortgage. i have to make you feel this way because my younger cousins call me unc
It was a completely different world. People were nice and respectful. People went outside and played. Nobody was on their phones. Life was actually affordable. Music was good, movies were good.
My dad bought a 2003 Ford Focus from Woody Anderson Ford in late 2002, but he didn't keep it for long. He traded it in for a 2003 Ford Ranger Edge Supercab that next spring and still has the truck to this day. 129,000 miles and counting. He drove it back and forth to work every day. But since he retired back in 2016, he rarely drives it anymore. He mostly uses it for hauling things around occasionally and uses it for around the house work.
@@mustbetrue1602 his Ranger has the 3.0 L engine. 5 speed automatic. Not many problems with it so far. The tachometer acts a little crazy sometimes, but it could be a slightly faulty sensor. The brake pedal is a little stiff. Could be from the brake booster. Nothing problematic. Just a little annoying.
2024 teenager here. I was born in 2008, and it really sucks. I love getting a glimpse of the life I sadly missed out on. When I watch these videos I get sad and I long for a nice life like that. Everyone was so clean, nice, had a good attitude, and technology was under control. The kids at my school are garbage. Its hard to make friends. Not to mention the music sucks ass. 80s and 90s music was peak and all of you who lived it are more lucky than you think. Be grateful that you got to live in such a wonderful time on this earth. Being a 16 year old in 2024 sucks but its not the worst, I make the most I can out of it and try my hardest to find some happiness, fir example I dress like a 80s/90s teen cause the fashion is so cool and I have an 80s rocker shag haircut. I simply gave no choice but to do what I can sadly.
You sound pretty grounded and mature dude, wow. I keep reading that more and more lately how a lot of teens wish they grew up in the 80s and 90s. I definitely miss those years. Thankfully you can watch the videos and enjoy those years, whether it's music or videos like this. Things were definitely better in my opinion, but at the same time, it also feels like we took it for granted because we want to go back so badly. lol
It’s so interesting to see comments like these because this was exactly how I felt when I was 16 in 2010, wishing I could have experienced the 1980’s and feeling nostalgic for my memories of the late 90’s
@@workingcountry1776 my father had a brand new 2002 explorer with the v6. transmission crapped out around 80k. i had a used 2002 explorer in 07...transmission also crapped out before 100k. my family has also owned multiple toyotas...no issues. my wife and i have a 2014 mazda6, cx5 and lexus gs350. all over 100k miles with essentially no issues.
I see the F-150s in the background and it’s crazy to think that my truck was ever brand new back then. It’s a 2001 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew and is still running strong at 163,000 miles but it’s definitely aging though and it’s a Midwest vehicle where it experiences snow and salt 😅
@@connors3356 Still not as bad as my 2004 F-150 with the box frame. It was more rusted and was completely twisted after it rolled over 3 times from ice before hitting a tree. I walked with no injuries thankfully and that was in February 2023
No she actually found out she was trans and became a man named Earl who works at the fish market and picks his nose while handling the food. The managers have been on his case about it but are afraid of Earl, who is a dangerous guy.
@ I was just a baby then. But I wear jackets like that now adays. Love seeing people wearing them back then! Adidas, Nike, Champion, Umbro. Great jackets!
Many of these cars are not only still on the road today, but you can do an awful lot of the maintenance yourself at minimal cost. They were not 'cheap' though. Those Explorers back then were still around $40,000 to $50,000 in today's money. We actually hit our cheap peak around 2019 before COVID. Not only did we still have a relative choice of cheap entry level cars, but interest rates remained artificially low thanks to quantitative easing. Since then the CPI Inflation rate has gone up 25% and inflation for many new car segments has been bearly double. Automakers have discontinued their cheapest offerings. EVs now allow most of them to easily reach Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards without having to mass produce loss leaders like that Ford Escort at the beginning of the clip.
I bought my first car a brand new red 2002 Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec-V 6-speed at age of 18 with money I saved working a part time job. Early/mid 2000s were still Ok before smartphones and sociaI media.
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587 , nowadays more people realize that a toilet is a toilet, a sink is a sink, and a room is a room. Does your house have separate rooms for men and women?
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587 , if the fact that I recognize that bathrooms are bathrooms and I'm not sexist tells you all you need to know about me, it suggests a lot about you-a curiously heightened concern with people's anatomy, and with the bodily functions exercised in bathrooms. Why do you have such a strong focus on it? You watch a video of people shopping for cars and you start talking about the rooms where people empty their bowels, with the whole world of TH-cam as your audience? What's the root of that fixation?
We didn’t know how good we had it in the early 2000’s as far as cars go. Now emissions have required these cars to become far too complicated to even get a chance to be reliable or fun
@@rickybungalow8839Don't have to. How can I get used to something that I would never spend money on to buy? Grid can't support EV's and I have ZERO interest in buying one.
@@bchooper5603 I mean, to be fair a Ford Explorer stickered at $27,775 in 2002. $27,775 in 2024 is about $49,400. A 2024 Explorer starts at $39,775 and is almost a foot longer.
Great foresight from the camera guy. I saw the American flag shirt at 0:57 and I was like "Hm, so is this just an American flag shirt or is it a 9/11 shirt? What time is this set? Lotta people wearing jackets, this could be either very early 2001 or very late 2001." Then at 1:50 I got my answer.
Back when the flag represented unity of the entire country. Sadly MAGA and the rightwing have made the flag a symbol of hate and division by co-opting it to represent Trump and only those who support him. I no longer fly the flag because its a hate symbol now and I do not want to promote hate.
Looks like this is pre 9/11. Well that customer has a 9/11 shirt. Surprisingly the dealer doesn’t have American flags everywhere like most did after 9/11.
Bought a New 1996 Ford Ranger Extra cab, 4cyl, 5spd, a/c, crank windows, sport rims, bed liner, cassette player. $14,250 from Mullinax Ford in Margate Florida still remember the sales guys name. Tony R Amidvar. Lol! Kinda hard to forget it. 1999 bought a 2000 Olds Alero GLS for the wife. $17,500. power everything. 2 years ago bought a new Tacoma TRD OFF ROAD 4X4 MANUAL 6spd. $50k with the mark up...I special ordered it and took 6 months to come in. I don't plan on buying another truck just to expensive. This one will have to out last me.
I remember we bought a Ford Crown Victoria in 2001, it was a great deal and got it 25 percent off MSRP! Too bad Ford no longer makes sedans anymore! Dealerships used to be more flexible with car discounts.
@@bennyblanco2091 yeah, those are tanks, but feel like driving a pickup truck shaped like a sedan! That car had over 500k miles, and then the engine stopped working.
those were the days. fairly priced vehicles. dealerships wanting to make deals. 0 apr's to get the cars sold. leftovers were rare after sept/oct. what happened? lower trim levels eliminated. f150's are not 100k. dealerships not willing to deal. 2023's and 2024's still on the lots because no one can afford 8 percent rates. insurance rates thru the roof. better quality than today which is on the toilet with the big three. unbelievable. bring back the good old days.
The dad and her daughter Such cuties both God I love family !!! Aww I miss the good old days . People were actually better looking back then than todays generation haha I even loved the way people dressed back then!!!!!❤
Not according to actual data. A car from 2001 was lucky to make it to 100K-150K miles. A well maintained car now will easily go 200K. Engineering is light years better. materials are better. Hell even tire technology is a million times better.
@@drn13355 MateriaIs are much Iower grade and cars are designed to faII apart when warranty expires. Mid 90s and 2000s Japanese sedans with naturaIIy aspirated engines were easiIy making 200-300k, many of them stiII going strong. Now, tiny overheating turbocharged engines bareIy touch 100k and very probIematic CVT transmissions can break in Iess than 50k on many car brands. Don't Iet me start on super cheap pIastic interiors with super cheap screens aII designed to not Iast Ionger than few years.
@@drn13355 Tire technoIogy "miIIion" times better🤣🤣 In 90s and 2000s when tires were advertised for 50k miIes you wouId get around 40k miIes from them with easy driving. Now, they advertise for 50-60-70k and you cannot get 15-20k out of them. Everything is much Iower quaIity by design and cost much more.
Crazy to see this era becoming retro. I don't think I will ever be able to see an era I grew up in as retro, only seeing previous generations that I didn't experience as retro.
Customers coming in and actually explaining what they want. How crazy. We have the opposite today even though we live in a world now with endless tools and technology enabling you to decide what you want/are looking for before you even go into a dealership. I think technology has ruined us. We all don't know how to interact with one another in person anymore. People are very apprehensive and closed off. What a different time it was back then right after 9/11.
Yep a better time IMO. We're all too closed off and in turn that makes us, like you said "apprehensive". Life was better before 2010, to me the big turning point of having "smart" (spy) phones and social media starting up.
lol take off those rose colored glasses buddy, there have always been problems and there will always be problems, there's no period of the past that was perfect in every way
Things were cheap 50 years ago too, but people weren't making a lot money either. It's all relative. I just miss the times, less bullshit, no 'smart"phones, no social media which has made people and the world toxic.
Dead lord, the patience of the salesman with that older couple was mind-blowing 😂 "Here and on over, these are all Explorer Sports" (contemplates things) "Thats what my daughter wants." (sliver of salesman's soul leaves his body)
People need to stop using the word aesthetic because they don’t use it correctly. Something being aesthetic is not a thing, but they can be aesthetically pleasing, or have a modern aesthetic, but things are not just “aesthetic”, that word alone makes absolutely no sense.
This took me back to my teenage years, I was 14 just to think 2001 was a few months after my Dad passed away December 26th 2000 My family moved away and I had to leave my old middle school behind, I lost contact with everyone I went to school with. A year later 2002 my family moved back, but it was too late. I had already started High School my second year. I wish I could watch my past life through a big screen. Including 98-00 those days and years are forever gone if I could go back in time, I would never want to come back to 2024 I would stay in the year 1999
I just love it when inexperienced sales people try to talk up some mundane feature as if it's a great innovation. Wow, the lower air damn allows fresh air to blow over the radiator to help keep the engine cool? YOU DON'T SAY!
Your videos and this channel are amazing! 👏👏👏😍😍😍 But it would be cool to create several playlists with specific themes to put the videos. That way it's easier to find the videos by themes. Example: School, Cinema, Supermarket, Buying a car....
Reminds of back in 1984 when my Mom bought a brand new Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera 1984 gray colored model. The once car dealership in the town I live in is now a credit union. On a note: I can here aircraft buzzing over in this video.
No one cared because gas and everything was very affordable. Now smaller turbo engines are easier on fueI but they are not reIiabIe and overheat and peopIe are struggIing to fiII their tanks, buy food and pay the biIIs.
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587 LOL, US automakers never learned anything after two separate energy shocks in the 1970s. They just kept building gas guzzlers when they couldn't figure out how to build compact cars that were reliable and competitive as well as fuel efficient.
@@KS5040 Gas guzzIers? What's wrong with 2l-2.5l naturally aspirated engines without turbos? Thay're trouble free for 200-300k miles and newest turbocharged junk is constant problems and barely makes it to 100k😂
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587 Then why weren't they making them to higher quality standards and reliability when Camrys, Accords, Corollas, and Civics were eating the US automakers lunch in the 1980s and 1990s?
@@KS5040 Dude, I'm not defending "American" cars and I will tell you why. GM cars and engines are rebadged and very unreIiabIe Opel from Europe. Ford is using Euro Ford cars and engines that are trash. Mopar was using Fiat junk (the worst) from Europe for years, I'm not sure about now. When cars were actuaIIy American designed/made they were pretty reIiabe but those days are Iong gone. Now they sell 4 cylinder turbo Mustangs that wiII never see 100k miles. Most American cars are not American anymore and most buyers don't know it and it's very sad because with internet they shouId know but they care more about facebook, twitter/x, tik tok, instagram and other crap.
Funny how this came up tried to purchase a car yesterday. A lot rot Dodge and they would not deal low balled my trade would not come down on the price of a loaner vehicle that they are selling the vehicle was sitting so long it would not start up so they had to jump it. I walked away. But it was a different story in 2001 and I was just working as a meat and seafood clerk at a grocery store walked in a Ford dealership bought a brand new 2001 F-150 XLT Supercab no hassle price was affordable.
@@workingcountry1776 I know it’s sad, last car I bought new was a 2018 Chevrolet Malibu LT last one left over for the 2018 model model year sold it in 2021 for a thousand more then what I paid for it all because of the Covid and used car situation.
Way less giant 4 door trucks on the lots. They have plenty sitting unsold now though lmao. We're gonna luck back at the last 20 years of the truck wars like we look at the comically huge cars of the 70s.
Ohhh yes. The 4.0 liter V6! The engine was making soooooo much power when they were testing the engines, they had to detune them because they kept breaking the serpentine belts. 😂😂😂
I remember in 2000 I was 6/7 years old I went with my aunt to the dealership to get her brand new Nissan black car idk what it was called and I just remember wanting to get into that money grab machine but it was only for customers 😂😂😂
I remember when I was a technician at Nissan 2010-2012 I heard one of the training sessions the same manager was giving to the new hire salesman, specifically on the new Altima 2013 that was out, talking about headlight lenses. Blows my mind. Nobody cares about that. Nobody.
Of course nobody does, but it's a "selling feature". There's a whole psychology behind sales and they no doubt spend millions on research into sales and marketing and whatever else, there must have been a reason if they all did it. lol
i bought my first superduty 7.3L in 2000 for $22,000 … in 2018 i spent $80k for the super duty . it’s had numerous recals and been in the shop multiple times for a myriad of reasons .
Ah, the good old days before it took $75k + a kidney to buy a truck...
You ray sys, you don't understand infIation😂
When Chevy and Dodge made their parts with good engineering in the U.S, and weren’t complete pieces of shit
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587The cost on these types of assets has outpaced wages and the current purported inflation rates.
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587 No he is right.
@@pauliep633 My comment was sarcastic, of course he's right.
I hate the process of buying cars.
Get yourself a bus pass😂
Who doesn’t??
So order a Polestar 2 online then. I never went to a dealer
I've never had this experience, I always know what car I'm looking for. You can't sell me shit I'm not trying to buy.
@@spencer963well not everyone rides a bus like you either. If you’re at a dealership you are finessed no matter what.
What a different world it was. Everything was so normal back then.
Before 9/11.
@@crlaw75 Actually this was filmed shortly after 9/11. 1:50 zooms in on a 9/11 shirt.
That was after 9/11
Do you mind elaborating on why you think everything was so "normal".
@@LatinPlayer10 Lack of smartphones. People acting more human and less distant with each other.
This makes me want to cry...everyone is so norma and polite...car buying was so much more fun with all the negotiation and also the cars were on the lots too. Now it's a gong show...
wichita is just like this we are raised to be plain because we live on the plains and because there are a lot of mennonites
in what world is negotiation fun?
Those sales reps are clueless. Guy pops the hood and then explains the type of glass Ford uses for the headlights. Brother, the guy wants an Explorer without leather seats. Find him one instead of listing off useless facts and features.
All that matters is If he makes the sale. What matters is that the customer falls for it.
Funny thing is that it’s not glass, it’s Lexan plastic, which is a polycarbonate that is more resistant to chipping. The word glass should’ve never been brought up. Also, he goes on to glorify generic halogen lights as to say “for awareness”😂
I probably would have humored the salesman while he was doing that bit, so long as he didn't go overboard on that type of thing...
guaranteed to yellow after five years lol! man ford was churning out some plastic fantastic junk back then.
It drove me, nuts! 😂😂😂 I work at a Nissan dealership but most of the dealers there have been working there for over 25 years so they’re very experienced
When 2001 still feels like the other day…but it’s more than 20 years ago…
@@mustbetrue1602 i can make you feel old i was born in 2001 and i currently have a mortgage. i have to make you feel this way because my younger cousins call me unc
I wonder what it was like? I was born in 2005
It was a completely different world. People were nice and respectful. People went outside and played. Nobody was on their phones. Life was actually affordable. Music was good, movies were good.
I would rather have a root canal than deal with the charades of buying a car from a dealership.
I almost agree, however, for those prices, I'd be willing to suffer through it.
My dad bought a 2003 Ford Focus from Woody Anderson Ford in late 2002, but he didn't keep it for long. He traded it in for a 2003 Ford Ranger Edge Supercab that next spring and still has the truck to this day. 129,000 miles and counting. He drove it back and forth to work every day. But since he retired back in 2016, he rarely drives it anymore. He mostly uses it for hauling things around occasionally and uses it for around the house work.
@@mustbetrue1602 his Ranger has the 3.0 L engine. 5 speed automatic. Not many problems with it so far. The tachometer acts a little crazy sometimes, but it could be a slightly faulty sensor. The brake pedal is a little stiff. Could be from the brake booster. Nothing problematic. Just a little annoying.
2024 teenager here. I was born in 2008, and it really sucks. I love getting a glimpse of the life I sadly missed out on. When I watch these videos I get sad and I long for a nice life like that. Everyone was so clean, nice, had a good attitude, and technology was under control. The kids at my school are garbage. Its hard to make friends. Not to mention the music sucks ass. 80s and 90s music was peak and all of you who lived it are more lucky than you think. Be grateful that you got to live in such a wonderful time on this earth. Being a 16 year old in 2024 sucks but its not the worst, I make the most I can out of it and try my hardest to find some happiness, fir example I dress like a 80s/90s teen cause the fashion is so cool and I have an 80s rocker shag haircut. I simply gave no choice but to do what I can sadly.
You sound pretty grounded and mature dude, wow. I keep reading that more and more lately how a lot of teens wish they grew up in the 80s and 90s. I definitely miss those years. Thankfully you can watch the videos and enjoy those years, whether it's music or videos like this. Things were definitely better in my opinion, but at the same time, it also feels like we took it for granted because we want to go back so badly. lol
If you like 80s and 90s, you should definitely read the brat pack authors. Start with Story of my life, by Jay McInerney.
The 2000's was peak in all media and fashion though.
🙏🙏
It’s so interesting to see comments like these because this was exactly how I felt when I was 16 in 2010, wishing I could have experienced the 1980’s and feeling nostalgic for my memories of the late 90’s
ah the 2002 ford explorer. the salesman forgot to mention how terrible the transmissions were in them!
Exploder 😆
Never had issues with the 5r55e used in rangers, mustang and explorers with 4.0L til around 200-250k miles on our work vehicles
@@workingcountry1776Most do not know the fluid needs changing regularly/often for long life.
@@workingcountry1776 my father had a brand new 2002 explorer with the v6. transmission crapped out around 80k. i had a used 2002 explorer in 07...transmission also crapped out before 100k. my family has also owned multiple toyotas...no issues. my wife and i have a 2014 mazda6, cx5 and lexus gs350. all over 100k miles with essentially no issues.
I laughed out loud when I heard "Do you want the Eddie Bauer?" at 1:44 😂
Based on the title and that guy's t-shirt, this is late 2001...
Yep
I remember this is why they dropped the APR to 0%.
*BUYING A CAR IN 2001*
Customer: "Do you have this one in red?"
Salesman: "A plane just flew into the World Trade Center..."
I see the F-150s in the background and it’s crazy to think that my truck was ever brand new back then. It’s a 2001 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew and is still running strong at 163,000 miles but it’s definitely aging though and it’s a Midwest vehicle where it experiences snow and salt 😅
my 2001 tacoma is a kansas truck and i feel ya brother, the rot consumes
@@connors3356
Still not as bad as my 2004 F-150 with the box frame. It was more rusted and was completely twisted after it rolled over 3 times from ice before hitting a tree. I walked with no injuries thankfully and that was in February 2023
I still drive a 2002 4runner and I love it.
Yes back when Ford had all kinds of vehicles and body styles and not a bunch of mundane crossovers 😌
Little girl at the start of the video is all grown and probably married with children now
Good work Columbo
@@sneakerfreak2002lol
No she actually found out she was trans and became a man named Earl who works at the fish market and picks his nose while handling the food. The managers have been on his case about it but are afraid of Earl, who is a dangerous guy.
When the car sales guy knows about the car, today they just have sales degree
They will tell you to watch tik toks to learn about cars and all they talk about is how many and how big are screens in cars.
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587 lol muh screens.
Its the cheaper way to go haha.
This one doesn't know shit about cars
Except he doesn’t lol
@@WhiteTree97 If you had a mechanic out there no one would ever buy anything.
0:12 that Nike jacket is perfect
The true definition of Aura 💪🏻
Remember the sport clothes Champion and Umbro in the 2000's?
@ I was just a baby then. But I wear jackets like that now adays. Love seeing people wearing them back then! Adidas, Nike, Champion, Umbro. Great jackets!
@@garbagebanditdayz819 I thought those brands were completely dead and forgotten.
@@HeihachiMishima48 you can find them cheap online, I’ve gotten lucky and found them at the Goodwill and Salvation Army for cheap.
Many of these cars are not only still on the road today, but you can do an awful lot of the maintenance yourself at minimal cost.
They were not 'cheap' though.
Those Explorers back then were still around $40,000 to $50,000 in today's money. We actually hit our cheap peak around 2019 before COVID. Not only did we still have a relative choice of cheap entry level cars, but interest rates remained artificially low thanks to quantitative easing.
Since then the CPI Inflation rate has gone up 25% and inflation for many new car segments has been bearly double. Automakers have discontinued their cheapest offerings. EVs now allow most of them to easily reach Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards without having to mass produce loss leaders like that Ford Escort at the beginning of the clip.
I bought my first car a brand new red 2002 Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec-V 6-speed at age of 18 with money I saved working a part time job. Early/mid 2000s were still Ok before smartphones and sociaI media.
SMARTPHONE BAD
@@WhiteTree97 It's certainIy not good, just Iook at peopIe everywhere.
How'd that SE-R work out for you?
@@wilkiedriver Why do you ask?
Yeah my dad did too back in 03 I was born in 2005 I'm 19 and my first car and current is a 2007 Camry
Back when everybody and their kids were dressed like a Russian mob boss.
Today they don't know which bathroom to use😂
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587 , nowadays more people realize that a toilet is a toilet, a sink is a sink, and a room is a room. Does your house have separate rooms for men and women?
@@smadaf Comparing private family house rooms to public toilets is insane. Tells me all I need to know about you.
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587 , if the fact that I recognize that bathrooms are bathrooms and I'm not sexist tells you all you need to know about me, it suggests a lot about you-a curiously heightened concern with people's anatomy, and with the bodily functions exercised in bathrooms. Why do you have such a strong focus on it? You watch a video of people shopping for cars and you start talking about the rooms where people empty their bowels, with the whole world of TH-cam as your audience? What's the root of that fixation?
@@smadaf We aII know what you are and what you want
We didn’t know how good we had it in the early 2000’s as far as cars go. Now emissions have required these cars to become far too complicated to even get a chance to be reliable or fun
I miss the days when you didn’t have EV’s and Not as many SUV’s
How do not seeing either of those change your life one way or the other?
Its all pickups now
I really hate those stupid EVs and hybrids.
@@Joseph-Joseph2002haha get used to it
@@rickybungalow8839Don't have to. How can I get used to something that I would never spend money on to buy? Grid can't support EV's and I have ZERO interest in buying one.
Good luck trying to buy a 2024 car nowadays without selling your kidney.
Progdems will say vehicles are more affordable than ever and then throw out classist insults at anyone who disagrees.
Yeeeeep. Especially the finance charges...
Thank American administration
@@bchooper5603 I mean, to be fair a Ford Explorer stickered at $27,775 in 2002. $27,775 in 2024 is about $49,400. A 2024 Explorer starts at $39,775 and is almost a foot longer.
I bought a 2001 Toyota Tacoma February that year 396,000 miles later still rolling.
Smart guy.
Nearly 400k. Wow.
Great truck and great owner. 💯
@@SURENITY Thanks getting close to 397,000.
Great foresight from the camera guy. I saw the American flag shirt at 0:57 and I was like "Hm, so is this just an American flag shirt or is it a 9/11 shirt? What time is this set? Lotta people wearing jackets, this could be either very early 2001 or very late 2001."
Then at 1:50 I got my answer.
Yup, 9/11 merch was flying off the shelf back then.
I was wondering if this was post 9/11 or pre 9/11 until I saw his shirt 😢
Back when the flag represented unity of the entire country. Sadly MAGA and the rightwing have made the flag a symbol of hate and division by co-opting it to represent Trump and only those who support him. I no longer fly the flag because its a hate symbol now and I do not want to promote hate.
I have never seen this country more united than the 12-15 months after 9/11. Things started to come apart with the Iraq War.
@@afridgetoofar1818 It's selfish to say, but I miss it.
I remember that 0% APR and gas was a dollar a gallon!
US gas prices averaged around $1.50 a gallon in 2001. Last time gas averaged around $1 was in 1998.
@@adamn7516 In Texas in 1998 I was buying 87 octane for 89 cents
Looks like this is pre 9/11. Well that customer has a 9/11 shirt. Surprisingly the dealer doesn’t have American flags everywhere like most did after 9/11.
@@gm12551 1:50 Bro literally has a Sept 11th shirt on.
@@gregdsmusiccaptures1578 yeah I saw it after I posted.
The kid from the beginning is probably asking her parents for help buying a new car.
She's probably like 25 now lol
😂 look how big they pants were
If you're taking the whole tribe across country, this is the car, you should be driving
Bought a New 1996 Ford Ranger Extra cab, 4cyl, 5spd, a/c, crank windows, sport rims, bed liner, cassette player. $14,250 from Mullinax Ford in Margate Florida still remember the sales guys name. Tony R Amidvar. Lol! Kinda hard to forget it.
1999 bought a 2000 Olds Alero GLS for the wife. $17,500. power everything. 2 years ago bought a new Tacoma TRD OFF ROAD 4X4 MANUAL 6spd. $50k with the mark up...I special ordered it and took 6 months to come in. I don't plan on buying another truck just to expensive. This one will have to out last me.
Bro was spewing some str8t BS about those headlights 😂 prospect was like wtf? 😳
I remember we bought a Ford Crown Victoria in 2001, it was a great deal and got it 25 percent off MSRP! Too bad Ford no longer makes sedans anymore! Dealerships used to be more flexible with car discounts.
Those Crown Vic’s were tanks. I bought an ‘04 with 317k miles and it lasted me another 7 years. A major flood took it out. 😓 reliable vehicle
@@bennyblanco2091 yeah, those are tanks, but feel like driving a pickup truck shaped like a sedan! That car had over 500k miles, and then the engine stopped working.
those were the days. fairly priced vehicles. dealerships wanting to make deals. 0 apr's to get the cars sold. leftovers were rare after sept/oct.
what happened? lower trim levels eliminated. f150's are not 100k. dealerships not willing to deal. 2023's and 2024's still on the lots because no one can afford 8 percent rates. insurance rates thru the roof. better quality than today which is on the toilet with the big three. unbelievable. bring back the good old days.
The dad and her daughter
Such cuties both
God I love family !!! Aww I miss the good old days . People were actually better looking back then than todays generation haha
I even loved the way people dressed back then!!!!!❤
Cars today don't hold up at all. Cheaply made.
They do for 5-8 years untiI you pay it off and warranty expires😂
Not according to actual data. A car from 2001 was lucky to make it to 100K-150K miles. A well maintained car now will easily go 200K. Engineering is light years better. materials are better. Hell even tire technology is a million times better.
@@drn13355 MateriaIs are much Iower grade and cars are designed to faII apart when warranty expires. Mid 90s and 2000s Japanese sedans with naturaIIy aspirated engines were easiIy making 200-300k, many of them stiII going strong. Now, tiny overheating turbocharged engines bareIy touch 100k and very probIematic CVT transmissions can break in Iess than 50k on many car brands. Don't Iet me start on super cheap pIastic interiors with super cheap screens aII designed to not Iast Ionger than few years.
@@drn13355 Your actuaI data = BuzzFeed or Yahoo LMFAO
@@drn13355 Tire technoIogy "miIIion" times better🤣🤣 In 90s and 2000s when tires were advertised for 50k miIes you wouId get around 40k miIes from them with easy driving. Now, they advertise for 50-60-70k and you cannot get 15-20k out of them. Everything is much Iower quaIity by design and cost much more.
Back in the day when the salesman knew the product better than the customer.
These salesmen didn't seem very knowledgeable
Did you not watch the video? The people in this video don't know anything about cars.
Seems like they're just making stuff up on the fly...
Happy Sunday everybody
Crazy to see this era becoming retro. I don't think I will ever be able to see an era I grew up in as retro, only seeing previous generations that I didn't experience as retro.
Customers coming in and actually explaining what they want. How crazy. We have the opposite today even though we live in a world now with endless tools and technology enabling you to decide what you want/are looking for before you even go into a dealership. I think technology has ruined us. We all don't know how to interact with one another in person anymore. People are very apprehensive and closed off. What a different time it was back then right after 9/11.
Yep a better time IMO. We're all too closed off and in turn that makes us, like you said "apprehensive".
Life was better before 2010, to me the big turning point of having "smart" (spy) phones and social media starting up.
The only vehichle I ever bought brand new was a 2001 Toyota Tundra back in 2001. It was the SR5 model. 29,999.00.
Great truck! Do you still have it as a daily?
@SURENITY no sadly. Sold it in 2004
I like that Black F150 Lightning in the showroom
Very cool truck, only lacked manual gearbox.
Those were a grip back then. I think like 57k in 2001. Horrendous even then
This really doesn't feel vintage, this feels like yesterday
Back when everything was cheap.
They weren't cheap back then. Everyone was making less money back in 2001. Then there was the awful economy 2001-2012.
lol take off those rose colored glasses buddy, there have always been problems and there will always be problems, there's no period of the past that was perfect in every way
Things were cheap 50 years ago too, but people weren't making a lot money either.
It's all relative.
I just miss the times, less bullshit, no 'smart"phones, no social media which has made people and the world toxic.
Back when the average salary in the US was $36k.
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i disagree things were easy than
Dead lord, the patience of the salesman with that older couple was mind-blowing 😂
"Here and on over, these are all Explorer Sports"
(contemplates things)
"Thats what my daughter wants."
(sliver of salesman's soul leaves his body)
I really miss the days of bringing my ball peen hammer to dealerships just to test out headlights😅
You’re a silly person
Oh I loved that, and afterwards how everyone knelt down to take a close look at the air intake he was educating them about.
I remember the smell of a new car in 2001 my grandparents went and bought one.
In the South as well!
Im 1000 likes bby 😘
Late 90s/early 00s cars are aesthetic
The late 90s/early 00s were peak aesthetic for everything. Cars, clothing, electronics, homes, food packaging, beverage containers etc.
People need to stop using the word aesthetic because they don’t use it correctly. Something being aesthetic is not a thing, but they can be aesthetically pleasing, or have a modern aesthetic, but things are not just “aesthetic”, that word alone makes absolutely no sense.
Rather buy vehicles from late 90s-2000s
hey welcome back my travel in time friend 👍
Did you know you could hit these headlights with a ball peen hammer? Wow, no way, LOL!
I definitely wouldn't want to test that. I wish he had said stronger than regular glass and left it at that.
I bought my beloved Grand Am in 2001. Things were certainly different then.
My first car was a 1987 Grand Am in 1989. It was $8K.
This took me back to my teenage years, I was 14 just to think 2001 was a few months after my Dad passed away December 26th 2000 My family moved away and I had to leave my old middle school behind, I lost contact with everyone I went to school with. A year later 2002 my family moved back, but it was too late. I had already started High School my second year. I wish I could watch my past life through a big screen. Including 98-00 those days and years are forever gone if I could go back in time, I would never want to come back to 2024 I would stay in the year 1999
@ 3:34 they used to give you a 100k warranty. Today, it's 30k. 🤦 Cars were built a lot better back then too as you still see many of those on the road
i still got my 2002 mustang gt
"We dont really need all the fancy stuff"
"do you want the eddie baurer or?"
bruh
This video on loop could be used in one of them unintentionall asmr channels
Ah, the good ole days when life was in 360p😁
I just love it when inexperienced sales people try to talk up some mundane feature as if it's a great innovation. Wow, the lower air damn allows fresh air to blow over the radiator to help keep the engine cool? YOU DON'T SAY!
And yet customers fall for it all day long.
Your videos and this channel are amazing! 👏👏👏😍😍😍 But it would be cool to create several playlists with specific themes to put the videos. That way it's easier to find the videos by themes. Example: School, Cinema, Supermarket, Buying a car....
Reminds of back in 1984 when my Mom bought a brand new Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera 1984 gray colored model. The once car dealership in the town I live in is now a credit union.
On a note: I can here aircraft buzzing over in this video.
It’s so amazing that little kids are now adults
OMG they actually describe different parts of the car! Today they don't care about anything! Just taking money!!!
I will hang on to my 2 old Fords for as long as possible. My 04 EB Expedition has 257k and my 08 Crown Vic PI has 194k.
Crown Vic is bulletproof.
Those Ford Exploders were pigs on gas.
No one cared because gas and everything was very affordable. Now smaller turbo engines are easier on fueI but they are not reIiabIe and overheat and peopIe are struggIing to fiII their tanks, buy food and pay the biIIs.
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587 LOL, US automakers never learned anything after two separate energy shocks in the 1970s. They just kept building gas guzzlers when they couldn't figure out how to build compact cars that were reliable and competitive as well as fuel efficient.
@@KS5040 Gas guzzIers?
What's wrong with 2l-2.5l naturally aspirated engines without turbos?
Thay're trouble free for 200-300k miles and newest turbocharged junk is constant problems and barely makes it to 100k😂
@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587 Then why weren't they making them to higher quality standards and reliability when Camrys, Accords, Corollas, and Civics were eating the US automakers lunch in the 1980s and 1990s?
@@KS5040 Dude, I'm not defending "American" cars and I will tell you why. GM cars and engines are rebadged and very unreIiabIe Opel from Europe. Ford is using Euro Ford cars and engines that are trash. Mopar was using Fiat junk (the worst) from Europe for years, I'm not sure about now. When cars were actuaIIy American designed/made they were pretty reIiabe but those days are Iong gone. Now they sell 4 cylinder turbo Mustangs that wiII never see 100k miles. Most American cars are not American anymore and most buyers don't know it and it's very sad because with internet they shouId know but they care more about facebook, twitter/x, tik tok, instagram and other crap.
Funny how this came up tried to purchase a car yesterday. A lot rot Dodge and they would not deal low balled my trade would not come down on the price of a loaner vehicle that they are selling the vehicle was sitting so long it would not start up so they had to jump it. I walked away. But it was a different story in 2001 and I was just working as a meat and seafood clerk at a grocery store walked in a Ford dealership bought a brand new 2001 F-150 XLT Supercab no hassle price was affordable.
Can't buy a new f150 even as a contractor currently.... Not one with 4wd and features we use for work any way
@@workingcountry1776 I know it’s sad, last car I bought new was a 2018 Chevrolet Malibu LT last one left over for the 2018 model model year sold it in 2021 for a thousand more then what I paid for it all because of the Covid and used car situation.
He forgot to mention that the fire stone tires on that model blows up
Is this Chanel not posting anymore videos?
still got my 01 chevy 1500hd. love it. hate new cars
I’d ALWAYS buy a VINTAGE 70s Ford Truck because you can change the chrome letters around, and spell DORF. 😂
Back then almost every ford had the column automatic gear shifter. This was the last of it.
I am from wichita!!! I was born in 2001!!! This is crazy!!!!!!
Good old days. 😊
Way less giant 4 door trucks on the lots. They have plenty sitting unsold now though lmao.
We're gonna luck back at the last 20 years of the truck wars like we look at the comically huge cars of the 70s.
I hope we have like a dealership video from 2008 Chevrolet dealership, the new GMT 900
GMT900 went into production in December 2005 though. Trucks in 2006.
All shiny brand new just waiting to be driven, now how many do you think are sitting in junk yards, how many are still going strong?
No Eddie Bauer!? Big mistake.
A case in point that most people in Kansas have southern accents for certain.
Well it does neighbor Missouri
@@ZackFrisbee That's true, Wichita, KS is also further south than most of Missouri as well.
I like the "clearcoat good for 100k miles" then "or 5 years"
Ohhh yes. The 4.0 liter V6! The engine was making soooooo much power when they were testing the engines, they had to detune them because they kept breaking the serpentine belts. 😂😂😂
Do 2009 (aka the Great Recession)
Brand new Impala $14k out the door.... That deal popped up weeks after I bought my used one for 12,500 out the door (11k plus tax and DMV)
Wasn’t expecting this video to be in Wichita when i clicked on it.
Back when most cars were NOT black, white or silver...
I remember in 2000 I was 6/7 years old I went with my aunt to the dealership to get her brand new Nissan black car idk what it was called and I just remember wanting to get into that money grab machine but it was only for customers 😂😂😂
We need this video longer tho!!!
The cars/trucks looked better then than now but not much.
Buying a car was more cheaper back in 2001. I miss old cars like caprice, crown victoria, and dodge monaco cars.
Right after 9/11, everyone had 0% APR. Or most did. American flags were at almost every house. And now look at us! 🤪😫
If you think you hate it now, wait til you drive it.
"so unfortunately sir, they hit the second tower.."
No Teslas in sight 😃
I had a 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac had to junk it unfortunately 😢
SUV's were becoming evermore popular during those years.
Old farmer man wants 2wd
I love the accent that car salesman with the old couple has, beautiful!
It was filmed in Wichita, KS, lots of southern accents across the board there, but they think it's the "Midwest" apparently.
I have grown up in the South my whole life. Best accent! lol
@@LuigiMario-ni3rj So, you're saying that Wichita is more like the South than the Midwest lol
I remember when I was a technician at Nissan 2010-2012 I heard one of the training sessions the same manager was giving to the new hire salesman, specifically on the new Altima 2013 that was out, talking about headlight lenses. Blows my mind. Nobody cares about that. Nobody.
Of course nobody does, but it's a "selling feature". There's a whole psychology behind sales and they no doubt spend millions on research into sales and marketing and whatever else, there must have been a reason if they all did it. lol
i bought my first superduty 7.3L in 2000 for $22,000 …
in 2018 i spent $80k for the super duty . it’s had numerous recals and been in the shop multiple times for a myriad of reasons .
No you didn’t, those were over $32,000 then new
Horrible salesmen. Rule #1, get their asses in the seats.
Back when cars were cars
Bro is taking about the under bumber spoiler to showcase the 2001 Ford Explorers' superior downforce and aerodynamics 😂
100k Mile warranty on the paint? 😂 yeah sure…