This driver isn't alone in feeling blindsided by the promise of those big numbers on the new car sticker.
Frequent price cuts have Indians wondering if the car is worth what it says on the window sticker in the car lots.
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It turns out Kia wants me to pay for a rental car while they figure out why their car does NOT get the gas mileage they have stated on the sticker of the car.
Mr. Lynch had never donated to a campaign or so much as put a bumper sticker on his car.
Witnesses said the car had a handicapped parking sticker and it went more than 100 feet before coming to a stop.
The Marquette University poll revealed that 26% of all voters have slapped a bumper sticker on their car or planted a sign in their lawn.
No matter how small the sticker on the car, the camera by the side of the track, in the driver's helmet or on the edge of the cockpit can pick it up and broadcast it to the world.
Ms. LAUREN SMITH (Obama Volunteer): Knowing that having a bumper sticker on my car and putting a button on my backpack or donating money wasn't enough to - I didn't feel like that was gonna be enough, because if he doesn't win, I would feel terrible.
To scrub every last whiff of sleaze from the used-car business, CarMax makes its sticker prices fixed.
In August, he reported to police that his car was keyed and a bumper sticker that read "Allah is Love" was torn off.
Not long after that, Mr. Deis discovered a bumper sticker affixed to his car of a boy urinating on a pair of dice (as it happens, Mr. Deis's surname is pronounced "dice").
Car buyers pay for labour, steel and paint, but the price sticker may not reflect the full cost of the noxious goo the car factory spills into a river.
Consumers are told the sticker price of the whole car and make their decisions based upon that information, not based upon the price of all the various components.
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Mr. Weinstein, whom the Associated Press once quoted as saying that a Christian-themed bumper sticker on an officer's car or a Bible on an officer's desk can amount to "pushing this fundamentalist version of Christianity on helpless subordinates, " wants the Pentagon to court-martial officers who proselytize.
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So, keeping with the car analogy, participants do not even know the sticker price of the vehicle.
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Although car rental companies now quote rates including taxes, sticker shock is not uncommon when you finally see that hotel or restaurant bill.
Power and Associates says 62% of new-car buyers first consult the Internet for invoice prices, sticker prices and trade-in values.
As I put the remnants of the graveyard spray in the trunk of my car, I assumed that she had not bothered to notice the Barack Obama sticker on my bumper.
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In 2006, 16-year-old Kyleigh D'Alessio was killed in a car crash, and a New Jersey law requiring that young drivers display a sticker on their vehicles identifying them as minors was named after her.
Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz brand, like many luxury car makers, already touts its crashworthy steel and sophisticated safety technology as a justification for high sticker prices.
Some CNN.com users recently shared their stories of buying used Geo Metros -- the oft-maligned, snail-sized car from the 1990s that gets gas mileage similar to a hybrid of today for a fraction of the sticker price.
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