Tom Kline
Tom Kline ("The Dealer Bodyguard") is Lead Consultant & Founder of Better Vantage Point, a dealership risk-mitigation and compliance consulting firm, and author of Tuck The Octopus.
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Oct 5, 2026
Tom KlineGUEST
obviously the automobile business, right? Legacies, legacies have an understanding.
Tom KlineGUEST
I'll give you one example that I found out about five years ago, the actor, Chris Pine, the guy who played Captain Kirk, right? In the, in the prequels.
Tom KlineGUEST
And so he got his skills and his love of acting from his father, clearly, right? And so legacies do mean something.
Tom KlineGUEST
So if you have a base trim line, and you're showing photos, uh, of the top, uh, with the nicest rims, you know, that's considered deceptive.
Tom KlineGUEST
So pretty much the whole thing is be honest, disclose what is appropriate, um, and, and don't try to be deceptive.
Tom KlineGUEST
Um, remember, this FTC act, what's very interesting to me about this is it goes back to 1914.
Tom KlineGUEST
And so if you, if you think about it f- through that filter, uh, you're gonna think about what the intention of the law was.