I am going to be blunt, and you will probably all hate me, but we do have freedom of speech here. This thread to me just seems so dated. Dealerships are "woke" to the idea that women make most of the car decisions, women do more internet research than men, women are buying cars with their own money not their husband's, and that having a sales experience that uses intimidation and pressure tactics hasn't worked for years. My friend is a saleswoman at a Honda dealership, and I have sent friends to her. Her role is to go over all the various options of the different models and see what the customer prefers. Yes she of course wants to close the deal, but car manufacturers realized years ago that the hard sell doesn't close the deal nearly as well as the reasoned, educational sell. Think of when you go in a department store, and the salesperson is hovering; you just want to leave. Same with cars, and the dealerships realized this years ago. They also realized years ago that a pleasant purchasing experience can mean the customer will come back for repairs (where the big profit is) and for their next car, and will refer their friends as well. For all these reasons, the intimidation sell is over, and has been for a long time. The purchase price has a little leeway, but since you can find prices all over the country on the internet, there's not much hard bargaining there. There is more negotiating--if you want it--over the trade-in (a more subjective evaluation than the purchase price of a car), and extras like winter mats and free oil changes. But the era of pushy salesman, and pressure tactics is over, as should be the era of the nervous woman with fluttering hands who'd rather do anything than buy a car at the scary dealership, and needs a man to accompany her. To the OP - feel your power. You are the purchaser of a car and the dealerships want your business. Walk in there knowing you are a powerful intelligent woman about to spend your money how you would like to spend it on the car you want. We are almost in 2019 at this point.

After what we just went through I would say watch it like a hawk and the first smell take it out of the house. It is not worth a life or home.

I tried the headlights for the second time last night, but first I learned a couple of things. One is that the lights should be set on Automatic, and the lever should be pushed forward to enable the high beams. My drive from town consists of 5 miles of a 2-lane highway and 5 miles through the woods on both paved and dirt roads. The paved roads are in poor condition. I was driving between 6:00 and 6:30 p.m., so it was dark, but not completely black. The headlights were okay (not great, but not bad) on the highway. Every time a car came toward me, even from a distance, the car switched to low beams, then back to high after the car passed. I got flashed from an approaching driver once, but he was in a black car with no lights at all. I didn't see him coming, and neither, apparently, did my car. But when he flashed his lights my low beams kicked in immediately. The other thing I learned was that the car will not enable the high beams if your speed is less than 20 mph. I have no idea why. It makes no sense to me, especially after I experienced it when I got off the highway. Deer were everywhere, with more bucks than I've seen in a while. I slowed down to make sure I didn't hit any, and also to roll through some of the nastier potholes and bumps, and when my speed fell below 20 the high beams quit--just when I needed them to look out for deer. It was frustrating. I'm sure there's a way to bypass this, probably by getting off the Auto setting. I'll look it up. Last night I turned on the fog lights, and that helped somewhat. So I feel partly encouraged by this experience, but I haven't ruled out getting the lights aimed up a bit.

Each screen can be different and call your eyes away from the road for too long, to look at the screen and to tap the virtual button just so, and heaven forbid it is cold and you have driving gloves on. In my car, I have to press a virtual button to change the screen just to see IF the AC is on, That is bad UI. (reminds me of the oven in our last house. No ”Off” switch or button, but a button that read ”Cancel”. Definitely designed by an engineer with no GUI training. Also the panel was completely symmetrical, which in that particular case meant that the button placement was illogical. But it looked nice, I guess.)