These stats are pretty well tracked, and it's not happening: https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_automobile_inventories_nsa#:~:text=US%20Domestic%20Auto%20Inventories%20is,78.19%25%20from%20one%20year%20ago.

All auto makers will say today that they won’t go to pre-pandemic inventory levels, and they likely mean that (for now). However, at some point they’ll say, “if I can sell 100 of these for that much profit, what if I sell 110?”... and so on. No way these companies will be able to resist more volume in the long term…

So, COVID hit and some people lost jobs, quit jobs, or were forced home with no income. Supply chain disruptions hit EVERY manufacturing segment and cars could not be built fast enough to meet demand. Car prices exploded because the people that could get them, paid anything they had to in order to buy one, and the…

This is laying the foundations of Big Auto’s demise. They are “taking profits” right now but there are clouds on the horizon...

The Chinese will enter the US market and destroy them on price AND supply AND EV availability.

Luckily my dealer honored my supplier pricing and the GM rebate, so that was about 3k off of MSRP, which was nice.  

This is big news. It feels like too often, we are talking about how much people are paying for cars, when the real story is for people that aren’t. If you *need* a running car right now and don’t have one, you have never been more over a barrel.

We went to a Kia dealership near us recently to test drive a 2022 Telluride. When we heard they had a $9,000 mark-up over invoice on it we walked away without even looking at the car. We don’t NEED a new car that bad. Perhaps that is a factor in the fact people aren’t buying as much?

and the average speed over the journey was 52 mph. That’s far from the ludicrous performance we usually associate with EVs.

Unfortunately my daily commute is 747 miles. This just wont work. EVs are useless. 

Given the difficulty of getting approved for credit cards, or the financial outlay required to get a secured credit card, versus just having a debit card attached to your existing bank account that requires no further validation or approval, I’d say the difference between them and you is your privilege. You should…

A lot of assumptions to unpack in your comment. 

Do not use a debit card at a gas pump - hell, unless you’re taking cash out at ATMs don’t bother with a debit card at all.

You’re saying a well known tabloid rag that’s run headlines like:

Unless you’re buying from a place that has some type of warranty or returns policy don’t buy a used GFX card. 

Good god, if this is what a Supreme Court who is trying to ‘salvage’ or ‘maintain’ their credibility is willing to do... I have genuine fears about what the future holds. They are coming out against women’s rights, attempting to dismantle the separation of church and state, they’ve already removed Voting protections…

This is so incredibly stupid... and I’m not a fan of these vehicles at all. At the least if you’re going to confiscate these things, make it so you can resell them out of state and use the money towards something useful, like NYC education or building green spaces in NYC. Destroying perfectly good materials is just a…

Here’s my question:

Activision’s own reports indicated an increase in profits that quarter due to THPS1+2 and Crash 4, so the obvious thing was to fold the studios responsible for both games into CoD support lackeys

I really hate that I like the jenner best, not as a mustang, but as a car design. (I hate it because of the name which I associate with the loathsome Kardashians).