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Chrysler New Product Advertisers Owe Consumers An Apology !
There was a comment on this site from Chrysler advertizers that was completly in disregard fot their truck buyers !They claim the new designed Ram is :for The Real Truck Consumers , not for the Urban Wannabes that never put a load in their truck ! What Audasity ! I have bought New Dodge 4x4 Trucks for the last 20 years ,and I never heard anyone use that type of strategy to market a vehicles ! I am pretty sure that a lot of other truck buyers would resent those remarks also ! Would you call a Chrysler Plant Shop Manager a Urban Wannabe to his face ? If I had to guess the age of that individual ,I would be willing to guess that he or she has not been out of school long or not enough in the real world to know how to advertize !
kia
that bumper of kia coupe looks like a chevy camaro. or is probably of the grille? i think it looks nice
iq
how many people can fit this car? this looks too small for me. maybe i would still go for toyota yaris and its toyota body parts as we can fit four people comfortably in there. It also get almost the mileage of Volvo
Kia Venga
The upgrade for its kia auto parts also include the following: sliding 60/40 split rear seat that folds flat into the floor and a twin-level boot floor. The engine is also good enough for city and it the height of this vehicle is said to be greater than that of a Corolla
KIa Venga
Hybrids
We've had cars that get 30+ mpg for decades. Why are we paying a premium for vehicles that don't do any better.
Oh yeah, and 40+ mpg diesel cars have been around for quite a while also.
Free Trade
Nationalism is strong in those two countries. Gas prices are out of sight as well. If the big three were ringing the bell anywhere outside of North America, I'd be the first one to cry foul.
In the end, irrespective of barriers, we don't make what they want. Our best hope is for the dollar to continue its march downward and for Japanese and Korean OEMs to export more of their stateside output back home.
tax breaks/Saab
There needs to be a federal law passed against tax breaks to any company for locating in the U.S.A.
Let all companys play on the same level field. And save the taxpayers money for other needed things.
Toyota
touble is Toyota is not taking care of its customers with all the hidden recalls and tsb's that they are hiding. Right now they are in legal troubles with a former lawyer that worked for them because they kept covering up problems with their vehicles.
new car sales
"Third, blue collar and middle class jobs have disappeared at an alarming rate and could well take a decade or more to get back to pre-recession levels. Furthermore, the jobs that are being secured are often less financially rewarding and result in less discretionary funds available for the purchase of a new second (or third) vehicle."
This is the absolute core of our problem! Why do the "smart people" not see this? If you don't have enough people making a decent wage, you cannot have a thriving economy! It's not complicated, doesn't require postdoctoral education or a Nobel prize to understand.
Even those of us who still have decent middle class jobs (knock on wood) are largely in debt and/or underwater on our houses--even modest houses financed conventionally. New cars move increasingly upmarket and less affordable to more people as median wages stagnate or fall. I mean, really--DUH.
And frankly, I'm not confident that we will see middle class jobs rise to a pre-recession level. As we become more "productive", fewer people are needed for most jobs. Even cashiers lose out to self-check. Unless there are new jobs from sectors unseen, we will still have high unemployment, hence lower consumer spending on all goods.
aging autos
You hit the nail right on the head! You can thank the banks also for trashing everyone in the United States credit ratings also. Therefore no autos can be bought, or will be sold as before.
aging autos
And that is how it is. And how it will pretty much remain as so many manufacturing jobs have moved out of country. It will affect purchases of many things besides autos.
Thank your government/politicians for this.
Good column Sir.
Failure Is Not An Option
This reader finds it a bit disingenuous when the writer states that if Detroit and the uaw try to compete with the companies that produce the best cars, it's a race to the bottom. I think the teacher unions claim the same when any attempt is made to introduce measures that allow our kids to compete with countries that do education better. I think the writer would garnish more credibility if he were to simply be honest and say that he does neither like nor want competition.
Failure Is Not An Option
Ron,
Well, sort of, it is, since the US auto industry did fail - absent a massive government intervention.
Suggeting that something that actually has happened is inconceivable is, in my opinion, silly.
And back to the $81B, it is sunk, water over the bridge, bad money.
Your argument i fundamentally if we don't subsidize the UAW on the backs of the consumer we will have to subsidize on the back of the government ... again.
Well, I don't accept this. Next time the Big 3 or some subset of it fail, and it won't take long, 12-18 months is and has been my prediction, I sat we let the bankruptcy courts sort it out without the providential hands of your sympathetic buddies in the White House and Capitol Hill steering us toward the Socialistic Promied Land.
Style is everything
"Buy American" doesn't fly out here on the Left Coast...we buy for Style and Performance out here. Ford, and the other Domestic manufacturers, are going to have to learn that good looking cars will sell every day of the week. Lee Iacocca proved with the Mustang that you could build an inexpensive, good looking car that the market would flock too. GM replicated that with the Nova but it seems like that lesson was quickly forgotten as the 70's rolled on.
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