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And Silvie, the news just broke that HUNTER BIDEN facilitated China’s purchase of a major cobalt mine in Africa-—cobalt being a major necessity to make the batteries for electric cars. The plot thickens...
Welcome to Biden’s Amerika.
Chip shortages. My guess.
Kinda creepy. They must have your number. Maybe they'll call telling you when you need a new one.
That’s one of the things I’ve noticed about liberals.
If you disagree with them they’ll go online and try to look up your history.
Shout out to Kentucky and Ohio Freepers... any Toyotas rolling off the assembly lines?
Get a used car from a private individual who you’ve researched and vetted well. That’s how I got the best Honda Accord - buying from an HP executive who lived in a nice part of Los Gatos CA.
just had to buy a new car also and had the EXACT same experience here in Texas.
several dealerships with ZERO new cars, a couple with a few trucks only, and a couple with a model or two that just came off the truck and hadn’t even be cleaned yet.
watch Scotty Kilmer (#1 car channel on Youtube 1.6 billion views and counting) on Youtube, he explains this MANY times in MANY VIDEOS. (and he hates Biden).
My brother who runs 2 restaurants and owns 6 Tacomas and Tundras got a call from Vancouver of Toyota (and he doesnt know how he got his number) offering to buy his trucks and he said no.
Plus a fellow conservative bud of mine here in L.A. who owns a used car dealership he’s never seen this before, even when Klownie the Kenyan and Sasquatch were p_resident and First Wookie.
NEWS FLASH: The auto industry is NEVER coming back and gas will be $20 per gallon soon.
They will blame it all on truck drivers and the oil companies, but it is all be design.
Took my wife’s Hyundai to our local dealership for maintenance & they told me they sell 125-140 per month & typically have 250 on the lot. Said they’re lucky to get a 100 per month to sell.
If I was buying new, I would want a rodent guarantee added for free. Lot of the new cars have been sitting in lots/fields waiting on chips.
I just did a nationwide search on AutoTempest.com for new Camry’s. By my quick, rough count, only about 35 came up.
I’ve had better luck in Virginia than dealing with any of the southern MD dealerships in Waldorf, Lex Park or Upper Marlboro. Well worth the drive from Calvert County.
If you ordered a car did they say how long it would take to get it?
This reminds me of an old Russian joke.
A man goes to buy a car so he goes to the dealer and they tell him “ok, it will be delivered in five years”.
He asks “morning or afternoon”?
“Why do you ask?”
“Because the new television is being delivered In the Morning”
Almost no trucks for sale near here in Virginia.
We went to nearby West Virginia. Trucks. Lots of them.
The invoice had jacked up the price of the Toyota we had just seen by $3,000...
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Same BS around here. Due to total lack of supply, the dealers have jacked up the few new cars they haver in the pipeline by $3k. Yesterday I drove by one of the remote yards where I know the local Toyota dealer stores extra stock. This is a lot that in the past would have 100’s of cars in it. There were about a half-dozen cars.
I’ve got a 10 year-old Toyota that I would have normally replaced this year, but now I’m hanging onto it.
This situation can’t go on forever as even with a $3k markup, the number of cars the dealership is selling must be a tiny fraction of past years.
I have noticed empty lots among the clusters of dealers in a couple of towns here in northwest Indana. That’s bad enough, but I had no idea they could pull up an instant and detailed profile of a person. I don’t expect to buy any time soon, but thanks for the view from the inside. I don’t know how auto manufacturers and dealers are going to survive when they are not building cars to sell. Another bailout coming?
I was out exercising at a local state park. I'm about to turn into a side road, but a new tricked out electric Mustang pulls in front of me (not yielding the right of way to the pedestrian) and zooms up the road, then suddenly stops, and does a three-point U-turn, it's backup Jimmy Carter beeper going off all the while. Then as it comes back the opposite way, it stops by me. "Excuse me." I ignore. "Excuse me sir." I look up.
The first thing I notice after the lady in the passenger seat is the enormous computer screen on the console, between the driver's and passenger's seat. I mean, this thing is like a 27-inch flat screen, but oriented in "portrait" mode, with its long axis vertical.
The woman in the passenger seat asks "do you know where we can find an electric charging station?" I just shrug and say "no." They drive away.
Then a few seconds later I realize "Why don't they just google it? They can surely find lots of charging stations that way."
They're in this snazzy new electric Mustang, surrounded by high technology, and they don't know to use Google to find their high-tech car charging station. Not very bright.