Posted on 08/11/2009 5:29:25 AM PDT by kellynla
BUMP
That is hilarious. And oh so true!
LOL, Yeah the Mexicans arent making any parts are they?
Sorry.I guess I was mistaken when I read, Made in Mexico ,on all those parts boxes.
Writer of the article knows that. What he also knows, and what you are overlooking is the fact that a huge part of the money goes to Japan and Japanese workers because the companies are owned by the Japanese. They are assembled here, many of the parts are made in Japan and, as I have said, a large part of the profits goes to Japan.
However, some US workers benefit and the UAW gets screwed. The whole idea of the cash for clunkers program was to enrich US car companies and the UAW, it was just another payback for them, the fact that they are getting screwed from their own brilliant plan is the whole point of the article.
And the Ford Focus (#2 on list) is made in Mexico for NA sales.
Just wait’ll next year...
Hyundai won’t be making a truck, but - assuming they pass safety inspections this month - Mahindra and Mahindra will begin selling their pickup here in December. It’ll be a largish medium size truck, but the killer thing about it is that the bed will carry twice what a F150 or Silverado can. Over 3000 lbs. And it tows like a beast.
They already are. Up about 15% since spring, according to Manheim data.
Only the engine has to be destroyed (still a waste.) Transmission can't be sold whole, but it can be parted out, as can the rest of the vehicle.
That Mahindra is very interesting.
My car is old but runs fine and gets too many miles per gallon to qualify under the “cash for clunkers” program, plus I don’t feel like spending a lot of money on a new vehicle right now. But if I was...is there any rule about how long you have to have owned the “clunker”? Can you go buy a gas-guzzler for $1000 and then the next day use it for your $4500 subsidy?
I think a decent number of Southerners might feel a little different about that.
(whistles Dixie)
:-P
Mahindra has a bad case of overpromise and underdeliver.
I wonder if they’ll ever make it to the US.
Their 3rd world technology is great for developing countries, I think they are struggling to meet all the US regs.
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/07/u-s-mahindra-pickup-reportedly-stalled-until-february/
Fine I won’t buy anything British, Spanish, Native American, German, North Korean, Vietnamese, or Japanese..
Thanks for the link. The Pik-Up is an interesting entry truck for them. It’s promising that the delay this time is only two months. The one I’m interested in is supposed to be their second vehicle here - a full sized pickup based off the Scorpio SUV. Supposed to be here next fall, but as you pointed out, I should probably expect some delays...
[Whatever my next car is it will not under any circumstances be a GM]
I’m buying GM!
Pre-1970 that is.
The person who buys the new car must have owned, registered, and insured the clunker car traded in for at least a year. This is to ensure that the program will deprive the used-car market of the best sub-$3,500/$4,500 vehicles. While a few of the people who can afford new cars will have a spare clunker lying around to cash in on, most such people, if they'd ever had a clunker, would have already sold it.
Why doesn't that surprise me? So I may be subsidizing someone's purchase of a Hummer but couldn't begin to afford one myself. Great going Democrats!
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