Dealers facing tight supply of SUVs, trucks

Dallas Morn. News ^ | 6/17/09 | Terry Box

[pissant]

If you've got your eye on a new SUV, don't blink.

It might be gone. Even with the auto industry mired in depression – sales are down nationally 36.5 percent – big vehicles such as the Ford Expedition and Chevy Tahoe are in tight supply because of drastic production cuts that automakers imposed last year as sales began to plummet.

Now, a year after $4-a-gallon gas nearly killed SUVs, some dealers in this market are selling them for window-sticker prices. Moreover, most late-model used pickups and SUVs have regained all of the thousands of dollars in trade-in value they lost last summer, dealers say.

[pissant]

The only useful vehicles on the road.

[GeronL]

Gas prices are back up and sales will be down again, I guess.

[linn37]

Hubbys looking for a dodge with a hemi,they are rare as hens teeth.

[Yo-Yo]

Just buying them up before ObamaMotors bans them altogether.

[KoRn]

We have two SUVs.

After getting over the sports car days of my youth and having a few kids, I wouldn’t own another kind of vehicle. I’m glad we bought both brand new over the past year. It may be difficult to get a good one after the envirwhakos get their way.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Gas prices are back up and sales will be down again, I guess.

I heard on Rush's show today people are buying them for fear the will no longer be available in the near future....kind of like guns and ammo

[GeronL]

Thats cool.

[JohnLongIsland]

[tubebender]

Regular is $3.20 in Eureka Ca today...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

“...the all-new, 2010 Death Trap. See your local dealer for details.”

[glock rocks]

Octane 85 is 2.46 at Costco in Salt Lake County. My 300hp 32 valve V8 UAV* gets 22 mpg on average.

* Urban Assault Vehicle aka SUV

[tubebender]

There seems to be something wrong with my audio receiver because I can’t hear you >>:(((

[dalereed]

For a cheap funeral buy the all in one car and casket from obama motors!

[glock rocks]

... lost over the roar of the flowmasters?

[tubebender]

Even with Flowmasters my 90 CPU with the SS454 package gets almost 10 MPG on a good day...

[glock rocks]

At least mine sounds like a big block :o)

And hell, 0-60 in well, a bit... turn up the iPod!

[Secret Agent Man]

Little O-hole logo on the hood and side doors and that’s what he wants us all driving, if we’re still able to afford it.

[org.whodat]

big vehicles such as the Ford Expedition and Chevy Tahoe are in tight supply because of drastic production cuts that automakers imposed last year as sales began to plummet.

Now that is a Joseph Goebbels type lie!!!

[org.whodat]

How many do you want, !http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2009-Dodge-Charger-SRT8-Hemi-Orange-Super-Bee_W0QQitemZ120433964929QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Cars_Trucks?hash=item1c0a6c7781&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=65%3A3%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

[org.whodat]

So much for the hens teeth, I expect a commission.