On Wednesday I wrote an email to autotrader alarming them to the fact that Genesis is in fact available for retail sale, and they hadn't listed it. Perhaps coincidentally, on Thursday the model became available under 'Hyundai'. And now:

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/searchresult...dsfyc=&systime=

216 vehicles for sale. Enjoy the car pr0n :banana:

Quick addendum:

This guy
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?ct=u&car_id=247667413
has the wood dash. No pillow dashboard inserts. Gods be praised! I'm getting one! :P

So what? They went ahead and made them availible with no thank you or reply of any sort? That seems rather crappy of them,lol. Good work man.

Thanks for posting! You honestly like the wood dash? I think it looks overdone. I prefer the leather trim, but I've always liked leather and thought that wood was overused in many cars. No one does wood interiors quite like the British, Swedish and German automakers IMO. I don't even care for the wood in Lexus very much.

Yeah so far autotrader has never taken kindly to my "You're missing models" posts. Two years ago I wrote to them to say, "You're missing E65 AMG. This vehicle is currently for sale." They wrote back and said, "We do have E65 AMG. IF you have any questons, call 1-800-thanks-for-nothing". Sure enough, by the time the fellow responded, E65 shows up in the list. It had been for sale for several months in the U.S. by that point, IIRC.

Another time, three years ago, I wrote to them and said, "Jaguar has a model, Super-V8, that is independent of Vanden Plas and XJ8. Has been in production since 2000. It's not in the list. S-Type R, in production since 2003, is also not in the list." They replied, "We don't separate out trim levels in our car types." Oh REALLY? Interesting. Because they do have XJ8 / Vanden Plas / XJR in the list. They're all XJs. So I had a tough time figuring out why S-Type R and Super V8 were mere "trim levels" whereas XJR and XJ8 are considered separate models.

Another time they posted an update to their car search form, and I realized that it wasn't working right - AT ALL - I'm talking, total botched deployment. It was the feature where it narrows the years you can enter for the 'range' based on startYear or endYear. Neither IE or FF would work properly, even with JS security permissions wide open. I wrote to them that very morning after the deployment and said, "Your JS doesn't work." Even recommended a few points to inspect in the client-side Javascript code. They fixed it by the end of the day and wrote back a week later, "The form is working fine. Thanks for contacting us."

Boy what a bunch of grumpy customer spport people... I'm doing FREE QA for them! Being in the software industry, I'll tell you, a well-run operation like that should APPRECIATE the friendly feedback from loyal visitors (and a customer almost a dozen times over, to boot), not say, "We're always right, go away." :bwekk: ****. I think they owe me a few hundred bucks for a few hours of QA over the years that is apparently better than that which they themselves can provide for their own website :)

So yeah, maybe not related to my most recent email, but Genesis showed up in the list the day after I wrote to them. In about a week I'm expecting a curt email saying, "Genesis is already in the list. Get lost."

I love autotrader's customer service!

This post has been edited by andyman32: Jul 5 2008, 12:04 PM

:)

I call 'em several days ago myself, and I got the "never heard of it" attitude. ( :liebe011: )

She did say that she would make a note of that car, so I figured it wouldn't be long.

Sure enough, a few days later and there were more than 200 vehicles listed.

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I do, I am a sucker for wood. I'll even take good faux wood over any kind of rubber, vinyl, etc. The leather dash grows on me a little since we first saw it, I will admit, but I'm still hooked on wood. I know it's stodgy but you know, my lust is for Jaguars. The BMWs were really very tastefully done but I always thought too reserved and severe with wood applications. May not be "cool" these days but my Genesis has to have the full wood dash, door inserts, and steering wheel.

I haven't liked what Lexus has done with wood in their interiors, but Infiniti M45 is really nice. Acura RL is also pretty slick. Not too keen on Audi. Of course, Phaeton 4-seater absolutely takes the cake, more liberal and creative application of wood in the interior than even Bentley IMHO. Only recent car I've ever seen that tops Phaeton's interior is Maybach. Of course... you can buy a loaded-to-the-gills Genesis (also MUCH lighter, and more powerful than the V8 anyhow) new off the lot for the same price as an average mileage '04 Phaeton right now.

So yeah... I'm happy to see generous applications of real wood available in the Genesis. :) :beer:

... still patiently waiting on a black V8 Genesis with all black leather interior, including the black leather dash ... Mmmmmm, tasty. Loaded of course.