Because they have real salesmen over there. Now go back out there and sell those people a car. And don't let them leave until they buy or until you turn them over to your closer. So that's why the car salespeople stick like glue to customers. Their fear of their managers is greater than their fear of offending the customers.
Many salespeople find that humor is a good way to overcome objections.
These prepackaged lines were exchanged between car salesmen in the slow times with the feeling that the right joke at the right moment could be the ticket to a sale. Of course, a good joke in the salesman's opinion might be considered the ultimate cornball line by the customer. The color matches the color of your eyes. Oddly enough, that very night I was talking to a woman who told me she had once had a car salesman tell her that the car matched the color of her eyes. Car salesmen and women seem to exist in their own world.