Posted on 10/30/2023 1:08:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
We went ‘shopping’ this weekend for a new truck/SUV.
60k to 100k+.
And then the dealers had $3000 mark-ups on top of that!...............
And the pick up will never do a minute doing what a pick up was designed for such as carrying a load of gravel, some lumber, a ladder or going down an unpaved road.
Try to buy a stripped down one for real use and it is almost impossible any more. These are $150,000 "hot wheels".
Unless it’s rusting out just keep repairing the one you got
It’s a 2002 Dodge Ram 1500, 100k+ miles..............
Easy solution is to not buy a new vehicle. The problem will solve itself.
At least its going to American workers.
> Surprised to see this, as I figured the car companies demand is down enough that they could afford a longer strike. <
That’s part of the problem. Management usually prefers to give in, and kick the can down the road a bit more.
It’s also worth noting that many states make it illegal to permanently fire striking workers. So the playing field is no longer level. That’s never a good thing.
What are they gonna do now, go deer hunting?
“That closure is a positive for the carmakers. But it portends difficult times ahead for the Detroit Three with the new pacts expected to push the companies’ labor costs higher than initially expected when talks began.
“We won things nobody thought was possible,” UAW President Shawn Fain said Wednesday.
Ford executives are already talking about the need to offset the higher expenses in its latest deal. The automaker has said the UAW contract would add $850 to $900 per vehicle in additional costs. “
Soon, only the very well-off will be able to afford a vehicle. Just as has been planned by the WEF.
Remember the scenes from the Mad Max movies where the vehicles were made from pieces and parts of various old cars? Yeah, that’s what we will have to do if we want to drive. In your prepping plans make sure to include a friendship with a shade-tree or retired army mechanic who is used to rebuilding gas powered engines. Then you will only have to worry about stealing the various needed parts and some gas.
What? They got a 25% increase and COLAS but NOT the 32 hour work week for the same pay they were demanding? Outrageous!
Right - now sell cars to make up for it, cars nobody wants.
‘56 Chevys are still running in Havana
About 15 years ago my aunt came to visit me. On the way home from the airport, in typical blunt Serbian fashion, she asked me how much money I made. I told her.
“Ahh!” she sneered, “I couldn’t live on that.”
I was a mid-career structural test engineer at an aerospace company. She was in the UAW at Chrysler, working a tool crib.
Was it any of these?
Doesn’t matter to me. I quit buying inferior American cars long time ago. I still have a 3/4 ton GM truck but it was built before their trucks got as bad as their cars. I don’t use it much so won’t need to replace it
They got rid of every hard fought cost cutting measure the car makers got over last years. They even brought back COLA which causes an upward price spiral. They won a short term victory but now for survival the car makers are going to move operations
Lol. I love the pepper idea that they will just steal whatever they want. As if everybody else who has valuable things isn’t armed and aware also.
They got rid of every hard fought cost cutting measure the car makers got over last years. They even brought back COLA which causes an upward price spiral. They won a short term victory but now for survival the car makers are going to move operations
Yeah, but what does that do to the cost of a modest car for the six pack American family?
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