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who can afford to sell at a huge loss?
You guys still love your SUVs?
:roll:
:Q
personally i like my 35+mpg
SarcasticDwarf
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I still like my SUV. I don't need it for anything it was designed for other than to putz me around. My next car will be a sedan though, but probably a v6 or v8 with only slightly better MPG.
It's too late to sell your SUV, unless you give it away. I'll keep mine for when I NEED it, and drive my 4 banger wagon everywhere else.
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Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
It is already happening. The big 3 aren't selling as many pickups and SUVs but brands like Honda and Toyota are having banner sales months around here.
Say goodbye to the big gas guzzling SUV! This is just another nail in the coffin!
those are people who would have been buying new cars/trucks about this time anyway. they're not really accelerated purchasers. overall purchases, by volume, are down, which isn't what you expect when people accelerate their purchases. of course, the volume we're comparing to is the crazy-nuts volume seen with all those finance promotions in 2002 and 2003.
Spike
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Not gonna sell ours, we love the explorer and find it very useful. Of course, it only gets driven ~50 miles a week so we fill it up every month or so. During the week my wife uses it for her 1.5 mile commute to the park and ride (huge hill so walking up it is a real pain). Other than that it is only used for camping, driving in the snow, and costco trips
My little mazda gets most of the driving and it gets something like 29/35 so that works for me.
-spike
My little mazda gets most of the driving and it gets something like 29/35 so that works for me.
-spike
dullard
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If you ever took economics beyond the very basic level, you'll realize that the rules of supply and demand as you think of them only apply to a true competition (100+ companies) and a non-panicked market. We have neither.
Back to the real topic. A few years ago when I bought my current vehicle I forsaw gas prices going up. Not at this intense rate. But I expected them to rise. So I don't have an SUV.
rh71
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As someone who bought an SUV before the craze started, GOOD.Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
It is already happening. The big 3 aren't selling as many pickups and SUVs but brands like Honda and Toyota are having banner sales months around here.
Say goodbye to the big gas guzzling SUV! This is just another nail in the coffin!
J/k... sorta.
rh71
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I live in suburbia and I'm pretty sure the percentage of people who don't need their SUVs are high, but you just don't know... for example I bought it for when I went to college... in Buffalo. What's that really do to this estimate of people who NEED them ? I'm someone who you'd consider NO LONGER needs it... but that's not true either... I love it for my Home Depot trips and the snowy months of the year. Why am I judging the guy next door - I don't know if he's ever lived in Buffalo. Or Wisconsin.
Regardless, NEED has not been a concern for people in this country... look at how many sports cars are sold...
I was riding my bike home from work a few days ago, and I was waiting at a major intersection for a light. As I'm sitting there, an SUV turns right, right in front of me. Then another. Then another. I'm not sure why I noticed this as usually I wouldn't pay any attention, but I noticed they were all being driven by middle-aged women. I turn to my left, and another is turning, again driven by a middle-aged woman. I finally looked fully behind me, and there were FIVE MORE, all the GIGANTIC SUVs (Escalades, Excursions, etc.), not little Explorers, and all being driven by middle-aged women.
It made me chuckle, and it made me want to beat them all unmercifully.
It made me chuckle, and it made me want to beat them all unmercifully.
I notice that too......nothing like being cut off by an SUV and then driving past it only to find thats its being driven by this little woman talking on the phone. Pet peeve.
Im not an SUV hater btw......just some people shouldnt own them, just the like the moron I saw popping a wheelie on his bike on the highway during the morning work commute.
I say keep it going
GM's already losing around $1200 every time they sell a car. Right now Chrysler's the only US manufacturer turning a profit (around $180 a car as of a couple weeks ago) while the Japanese manufacturers are making a killing.Let the gas prices soar, and let the US manufacturers of oversized pigmobiles die as they deserve to.
Jason
True competition doesn't require 100+ companies, don't be absurd. Granted, there's very *little* competition in the oil market, mostly thanks to OPEC. Cartels work to *circumvent* competition and *thwart* Capitalism.
Jason
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