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New and Used Car Prices Soar Due to Microchip Shortage
The Western Journal ^ | July 10, 2021 at 2:27pm | Jack Davis

Posted on 07/11/2021 5:18:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

A microchip shortage is translating to higher car prices across America.

CBS reported that the average price of a new car has topped $40,000 and that used car prices have risen nearly 30 percent due to the shortage.

Lansing, Michigan, resident Heather Lyons knows that firsthand.

In looking to buy a replacement for a totaled car, she said she will end up paying more to get less, according to WILX-TV.

“It really is bad. My car payment last time for a decent vehicle was something I could afford and this time it’s going to be a worse vehicle for more than I was paying before,” Lyons said.

She said she is paying $4,000 more than she did for a similar car a year ago.

Dealers admit prices are high.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automotive; bideneconomy; carprices; cars; chipshortage; economy; inflation; newcars; trucks; usedcars
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To: boycott
If we ever got in a prolonged war with China, are we going to ask them to send us the microchips we need for our smart bombs?

Right wing globalist Chamber of Commerce Free Traitors™ don't care....

101 posted on 07/12/2021 8:13:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: dgbrown

“Well my 100hp truck gets about 8 mpg going 48 mph and has 4 shift levers, no power steering and drum brakes all around.”

Your point?


102 posted on 07/12/2021 8:14:59 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator; Captain Peter Blood
“Is it true the car manufacturers are dependent on one chip maker in Taiwan for these car chips?”

Answer: not yet.

103 posted on 07/12/2021 8:16:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Jamestown1630

“Maybe you need that, but a lot of us don’t.”

Maybe you don’t need that, but a lot of us do.


104 posted on 07/12/2021 8:30:08 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: PIF

“To have Navigation like the Ford guy. you’d could pick up a used Sextant ...”

Wow!


105 posted on 07/12/2021 8:38:22 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator

Yeah, I know the name of the device is racist or something. But without that device, how else can a guy with a very old truck get Navigation?


106 posted on 07/12/2021 8:41:38 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SheepWhisperer

How did you get 1.9 liter?


107 posted on 07/12/2021 8:56:19 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: PIF

“Yeah, I know the name of the device is racist or something. But without that device, how else can a guy with a very old truck get Navigation?”

Cellphone or tablet.

You can get a $79 tablet with GPS and download maps when on WiFi.


108 posted on 07/12/2021 8:58:57 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: boycott
If we ever got in a prolonged war with China, are we going to ask them to send us the microchips we need for our smart bombs?

Democrats have been selling us out to China for years... We should ask Hunter Biden about the particulars... then ask the other half of DC...

109 posted on 07/12/2021 9:21:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (ARSON isn't fire violence. RAPE isn't penis violence. Murder isn't gun violence.- Criminal violence )
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To: TexasGator

You do know that it was joke, right?


110 posted on 07/12/2021 9:22:24 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: TexasGator

In 2008, when I bought new, that was what was available. At that time, those yaris were imported only and made entirely in Japan. Again, at that time, Japan/Toyota only made the 1.9L there and not in other countries. I don’t know what engine is oem now, or if the hatchback is even made, because I haven’t seen new ones on the road.

Bought from a dealership 200 miles away over the phone. It was one of the last black ones available in the Toyota SE region on the lot. Wait time after that was 2-3 months for more to be shipped.


111 posted on 07/12/2021 10:12:46 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: TexasGator

Maybe my memory is incorrect and it was 1.5L, but I recall it was 1.9


112 posted on 07/12/2021 10:17:38 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: SheepWhisperer

“Maybe my memory is incorrect ...”

Now, about that 3rd gear chirp?


113 posted on 07/12/2021 11:04:11 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator

Knock it off.
I looked at the paperwork. 1.9
And yes third gear chirp.


114 posted on 07/12/2021 11:13:22 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: SheepWhisperer

Typo 1.5


115 posted on 07/12/2021 11:25:01 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I would buy a car with no chips and no electronics in a heartbeat.


116 posted on 07/12/2021 11:28:49 AM PDT by Starstruck ( Since I'm old I don't whether I'm senile or brilliant. Or happily both.)
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To: Mean Daddy

If so, Intel should do better selling to the auto plants or they need better lobbyists to push for protection of their products.


117 posted on 07/12/2021 11:31:37 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Charles Martel

Sold 57 Nomad in April


118 posted on 07/12/2021 11:32:58 AM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: SheepWhisperer

Strange that people were swapping out the 1.9 for the 1.8 Corolla engine?


119 posted on 07/12/2021 11:37:25 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: DarrellZero
I was recently new car shopping and gave up. I’ll try again in 6 months.

Wait until 2030, if all new cars must be electric by 2035 you're bound to find some deals on some gas powered vehicles.

120 posted on 07/12/2021 11:38:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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