Im actually 1/2 through this video when I saw your post.
Why the USA seemingly has a suicidal mindset in its car makers is beyond me:
Shoddy products
Over tech and over priced
Stupid design ideas like internal water pumps and direct injection
Then maybe worst of all the push to move manufacturing out of country.
And I wonder if sixth a collapse will translate to used cars…I think it would.
Revealing video! I did not know this was going on. I thought car/truck sales had a slight dip.
Here’s Ford’s new pricing for its trucks....you can no longer buy a stripped down Sub $40K F150. Most of its trucks are in the 70K-80K range......how can people (many who need work trucks) afford that?
I haven’t heard of the internal water pump but I don’t follow automotive stuff much anymore.
Beyond insane.
One Word-GREED
Bring back vehicles you can work on yourself and can afford to drive off the lot.
Direct injection is great; however, you need to buy clean, properly supplemented, fuel.
Just go back to a v6 engine that functions as it should and is easy to work on. Put a cd player in the vehicle and be done with it. Market it as “quality. Nothing else matters” or something to that effect
I did not know about internal water pumps until just recently. My work Ford Explorer had one go out at about 125K miles. It was like a $3000 fix. Glad my work paid for it, or I would have lost my feces on Ford. They had to pull the engine to replace the water pump, it was around a 10 hour job I think.