{"id":531,"date":"2010-10-18T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T22:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=531"},"modified":"2020-06-20T02:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:01:22","slug":"car-dealer-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/car-dealer-slang\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Dealer Slang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever spent much time in a car yard in Australia, you may well have noticed that it&#8217;s like car dealers peak another language!\u00a0 Especially when they&#8217;re talking to each other.<\/p>\n<p>We thought we&#8217;d put together a list of all the car dealer slang we could come up with.\u00a0 But, before you read on, see if you can make sense of the fllolowing video (without the captions)<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPrivateFleet%2Fvideos%2F10150991997356548%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then come back here and check out (or add to) our complete dealer glossary!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_532\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/car-dealer-talk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-532\" title=\"car dealer talk\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/car-dealer-talk-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"car dealer slang talk\" width=\"264\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Language of Car Yards<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Describing a Car<\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;dunny door&#8217; &#8211; Holden Commodore<br \/>\n&#8216;got form&#8217; &#8211; been in previous accident<br \/>\n&#8216;pair of 2&#8217;s&#8217; &#8211; worth $22K<br \/>\n&#8216;povo pack&#8217; &#8211; base model<br \/>\n&#8216;low on ticket&#8217; &#8211; running low on registration<br \/>\n&#8216;fast glass&#8217; &#8211; power windows<br \/>\n&#8216;bump &amp; hook&#8217; &#8211; bullbar &amp; towbar<br \/>\n&#8216;stop&#8217; &#8211; abs brakes<br \/>\n&#8216;DC red&#8217; &#8211; bright red<br \/>\n&#8216;safety yellow&#8217; &#8211; bright yellow<br \/>\n&#8216;double oh, double oh&#8217; &#8211; 2000 build, 2000 complied<br \/>\n&#8216;Dolly Partons&#8217; &#8211; airbags<br \/>\na bit leggy &#8211; high mileage<br \/>\n&#8216;dollar car&#8217; &#8211; a low value trade-in<br \/>\n&#8220;puff and blow&#8221; &#8211; airbags &amp; aircon<br \/>\n&#8216;ncv&#8217; &#8211; no commercial value<br \/>\n&#8216;needs boots&#8217; &#8211; tyres are worn<br \/>\n&#8216;no humphrey&#8217; &#8211; no air conditionaing (Humphrey B Bear &#8211; Air)<br \/>\n&#8216;more hits than Elvis&#8217; &#8211; panel damage<br \/>\n&#8216;top of the wazza&#8217; &#8211; top of the range<br \/>\n&#8216;all the bells and whistles&#8217; &#8211; fully optioned<\/p>\n<h3>Selling Slang<\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;head on the yard&#8217; &#8211; potential client outside<br \/>\n&#8216;dudder&#8217; &#8211; client can&#8217;t get finance<br \/>\n&#8216;tyre kickers&#8217; &#8211; time wasting &#8216;buyers&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;full lick&#8217; &#8211; selling a car at full price<br \/>\n&#8216;wood duck&#8217; &#8211; sucker customer<br \/>\n&#8216;upside down&#8217; &#8211; negative equity<br \/>\n&#8216;in traffic&#8217; &#8211; car is sold &amp; delivered<br \/>\n&#8216;low ball&#8217; &#8211; an offer way below what is reasonable<br \/>\n&#8216;gorilla\/monkey for the hurt&#8217; &#8211; $1,000, $500 to spend<br \/>\n&#8216;ducks on the pond&#8217; &#8211; customers outside<br \/>\n&#8216;ghosts&#8217; &#8211; clients that won&#8217;t go away<br \/>\n&#8216;on the drip&#8217; &#8211; weekly payments<br \/>\n&#8216;for a bradman a week&#8217; &#8211; $100\/week payments<br \/>\n&#8216;on the murray cod&#8217; &#8211; on the nod<br \/>\n&#8217;90 day beige&#8217; &#8211; old stock, can&#8217;t sell, nobody wants, bad resale<br \/>\n&#8216;ping the mrs&#8217; &#8211; direct the sales tactics towards the female in a couple<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, RIP to John Clarke, the renowned satirist. Here he is many years ago showing the argot over the ditch<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPrivateFleet%2Fposts%2F10155128888282398&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/potreb-kredit.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/potreb-kredit.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever spent much time in a car yard in Australia, you may well have noticed that it&#8217;s like car dealers peak another language!\u00a0 Especially when they&#8217;re talking to each other. We thought we&#8217;d put together a list of all the car dealer slang we could come up with.\u00a0 But, before you read on, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12546,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/12546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}