Posted on 12/20/2023 9:07:57 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III
The main goal is annihilating the middle class.
This is just another box to tick off in the process.
Oldsmobile went away; Buick still exists.
Exactly, the MFGs want to capture that dealership profit for themselves. In fact due to Telsa the other car companies are at a competitive disadvantage with their dealership business model. Unfortunately due to state laws, the MFGs cannot get rid of the dealership, but they can make it impossible for dealership to profit.
My take is that Buicks just aren’t selling anyway
The buy out offer is salvation
ICWYDT !
My dad got a brand new 1954 Buick Century when I was a freshman in high school. Loved that car..all 200 horsepower! It was fasf!
“When America was still America, you could still actually tell cars apart.”
Boy, if that ain’t the truth! Every time we go out, my husband and I can’t tell one car from another. They ALL look exactly alike anymore. My husband is always saying how you used to be able to tell one car from another. We both love the old cars. They were so “sturdy”, built like tanks plus they had style and a soul. Cars today don’t have that.
“When America was stiil America, you could still actually tell cars apart.”
YES! That’s exactly what I meant! As kids on road trips we were calling out the different cars on the road.
Some of the American cars still have some unique looks about them. They’re always the ones that catch my eye. The foreign ones are like the ticky-tacky subdivisions with 1,000 identical houses.
My son recently leased a Hyundai EV and while he loves the gadgetry, I question just how practical it I really is as an everyday vehicle. His older home would require a substantial upgrade of the electrical service panel to accommodate a home charger in addition to the $2,500 cost of the charger itself. He spends 20+ minutes on his drive to work at a public charger and then charges his EV at work. A road trip to his wife’s family cabin requires a level of planning that rivals D-Day leapfrogging from charger to charger hoping that the charger is operational and not experiencing long lines of others awaiting their charge. Our winter has so far been unseasonably warm, but in Minnesota extended periods of below zero weather are common so how he will fare with an EV in those temperatures is yet to be seen. Most car buyers would not be willing to put up with the bother of an owning an EV especially at the prices being charged. Buying a used EV would be a crap shoot. Older EV batteries have diminished charge capacity and the cost of replacing a battery likely exceeds the value of the vehicle.
Your observations are 100% spot on. Pretty much like everything else in contemporary America...it’s become soulless.
Yeah I don’t get that. The dealerships are getting paid to NOT sell EVs? Sounds like a good deal.
Like farmers who get paid not to sell milk.
Yep
15 minute prisons.
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