If you check out the link in this article to the UAW agreement, you’ll see this:

Ford (F.N) has estimated the new contract will add $850 to $900 in labor costs per vehicle.

I’m guessing GM is pretty similar to this, so yeah, not exactly crippling to them. It will be interesting to see their annual report after all this.

Probably because they only use the most reliable of BMW engines. I know the latest V8s from BMW are more reliable than the past, but I’m sure if you dig into the data it isn’t close to the B38/48/58.

I remember the one where a guy brought a 2nd gen Camaro with basically no brakes, and I think that was close to the end of when Matt was doing viewer cars. Hard to blame him.

Part of it is brands like Ford and GM didn’t even bother with lower trim levels, so you get the expensive models out the gate with the hopes of cheaper trims on the way.

At least half of the arguments on here are percentage only and it’s very disingenuous. For example, Lucid sales YTD are around 4400 cars.

That and they also have the most compelling vehicles for the money and by far the best charging network. A model 3 or Y seems like a great value compared to the competition at its price point.

There’s a reason EV prices are falling off a cliff.

Talking percentages is kind of misleading with EV’s since the number of cars sold is much smaller compared to ICE (for obvious reasons). A 50% Q3 increase in EV sales is about 100K vehicles. I’m having trouble finding ICE only data, but all vehicle sales in Q3 23 had a 15% increase over Q3 22 which is about 600K cars. It’s not exactly an apples to apples comparison.

The reason people say EV sales are slowing is because the growth is not as high as it was, even though it’s still growth. EV’s often sit on dealer lots longer than their ICE counterparts currently. Check out the Cox data on this from Q2 and Q3.

And I’m not arguing EV vs ICE because they both have their place. I’m strictly talking about the numbers.

Isn’t the Toyota sales directly related to production though? Like they literally can’t produce enough to meet demand? I thought that was why Toyota and a few other brands (I think Honda was another) are still struggling with inventory.

I thought it was “fix it again, Tony”