In one week we got news that wood logs price are normalizing, that GPU and ram are starting to be available and price as per catalog and now that. It seems only oil price normalization is missing and that would mean the inflation was truly supply side and temporary.
Carmakers feel chip crisis easing
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#132Waiting longer is ok, it is waiting a random time in a unplanned way with a missed date that is very annoying and becomes expensive, not keeping to schedule will make consumers look elsewhere.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Context: for ages, OEMs (the factory) have had a belief that Americans will not wait to buy a car. On the contrary, we recently added a 3rd car, and it ended up being a $4000 used Toyota Camry. My first choice would have been a Corolla or civic but none were available at a reasonable price, condition and mileage. Due to the well known rise in used car prices. It's in good enough condition and meets all the requirem…
I'm all for frugality, but with a newer car you're getting vastly improved crash safety. Over the years crash safety ratings have gotten tougher and tougher. You can browse the IIHS crash rating history for the Camry (or any other car) and you can often observe that when the IIHS introduces a new test, cars often perform poorly on it (high likelihood of injury) initially, but get better later on. https://www.iihs.org…
And also active safety driver aids which prevent accidents in the first place. If you can afford a new car, by all means you should.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disclosure: I work for GM. Anything expressed here is solely my own opinion and experience. I think each statement is true. Context: for ages, OEMs (the factory) have had a belief that Americans will not wait to buy a car. There's also a bit of a prisoner's dilemma: if any automaker wanted to trim inventories, the customer could go to a competing automaker's lot and buy today. Since customers will not wait to buy a c…
> Context: for ages, OEMs (the factory) have had a belief that Americans will not wait to buy a car. On the contrary, we recently added a 3rd car, and it ended up being a $4000 used Toyota Camry. My first choice would have been a Corolla or civic but none were available at a reasonable price, condition and mileage. Due to the well known rise in used car prices. It's in good enough condition and meets all the requirem…
Indeed. I've been doing similar research myself and was surprised at how highway driving can disadvantage EVs. They'll never be as expensive per mile as an ICE vehicle but I found the fact I spend most of my commute at 80mph significantly decreased the savings.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I can floor it and it doesn't go anywhere. This is a difficult sentence to parse. Shouldn't you want the opposite from a car?
High powered vehicles have a tendency to cause sudden acceleration. Sudden acceleration is a contributing factor in many vehicle crashes.
High powered vehicles don't have a tendency to cause anything.
Driver input causes sudden acceleration. Having access to more power is not an inherently dangerous thing. Poor driving ability is a dangerous thing - though I agree that more power can compound that danger.
I drive a 480bhp 1800kg car. It takes active involvement from me in multiple steps to "take off" or 'suddenly' accelerate, and when it does so, the whole car is configured to _increase_ its stability as its speed increases.
That said, if I were to aggressively accelerate when the road conditions are in excess of what the stability aids (and my fallible human skillset) can counter - which from experience is a high bar for modern DSC (oil, ice) - then I would crash and power would be a contributory factor. But from experience I can say that a small front wheel drive car will have 'let go' far sooner under those same conditions.
High-powered cars, by virtue of their expense, tend to have more comprehensive and capable driver assistance features both tech and mech (you're not going to find a limited slip differential on a budget super mini car)
Under-powered cars have trouble effectively matching carriageway and motorway speed in the short slip roads that are common in the UK. A 1 litre, >80bhp car is fine for city/town and village driving. It is not an appropriate vehicle for motorway or NSL carriageway driving. Anything that has no ability to out-accelerate a HGV maintaining cruise speed to join a motorway has no business being on the motorway.
Re: Carmakers feel chip crisis easing
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disclosure: I work for GM. Anything expressed here is solely my own opinion and experience. I think each statement is true. Context: for ages, OEMs (the factory) have had a belief that Americans will not wait to buy a car. There's also a bit of a prisoner's dilemma: if any automaker wanted to trim inventories, the customer could go to a competing automaker's lot and buy today. Since customers will not wait to buy a c…
> In future American OEMs may move to a more European model where vehicles are built to specific customer order. This takes on the order of two months at the moment for many legacy reasons, but there is no need for it to actually take this long. You've been able to do this in the US forever; you just might have needed to pay closer to (or even at) sticker (now I'm sure it's higher than sticker).
I can't believe people go to a dealer and are willing to drop $30k+ on a new vehicle that isn't to their exact spec just to drive away that day with something new. There usually aren't too many options on cars -- color, wheel design, a few packages. If I'm spending that much money on something, I'd want exactly what I want. I've even flown to a dealer a few hundred miles away to buy the exact car I want and drove it home.
Re: Carmakers feel chip crisis easing
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Context: for ages, OEMs (the factory) have had a belief that Americans will not wait to buy a car. On the contrary, we recently added a 3rd car, and it ended up being a $4000 used Toyota Camry. My first choice would have been a Corolla or civic but none were available at a reasonable price, condition and mileage. Due to the well known rise in used car prices. It's in good enough condition and meets all the requirem…
I applaud you for not taking the bait on the Model 3, which is overrated, but I cannot fathom purchasing an appliance car like a Camry. You can’t possibly enjoy driving it. Why not at least a Honda?
What, does buying a more expensive car give you access to a different set of traffic laws? My 106HP Yaris is more than capable of breaking the speed limit and coming off a stop fast enough to slam me back in the seat.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ford leadership seems to really want to move to the Tesla preorder model, but changing this will be extremely difficult. This entrenched way of doing business may start seriously hurting their bottom line if Tesla and others can scale the direct to consumer model.
> Ford leadership seems to really want to move to the Tesla preorder model It may not be so much that they want to, but it is apparent that Ford is struggling to figure out how the dealership fits in an EV world, where your customers aren't constantly funnelling in for oil changes. The ICE model allows the dealership to make a sizeable portion of their income from the attached repair shop, but much of that shop work…
This may vary by country. A large proportion, maybe even all, of the Ford dealers in the UK are owned by Ford itself. The only Ford dealers that I have had contact with in France are still separate companies.
Re: Carmakers feel chip crisis easing
#140In one week we got news that wood logs price are normalizing, that GPU and ram are starting to be available and price as per catalog and now that. It seems only oil price normalization is missing and that would mean the inflation was truly supply side and temporary.
Oh boy are you in for a surprise come end of quarter