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Mar 29 2005, 06:16 AM

QUOTE (rmackintosh @ Mar 18 2005, 10:04 AM)

QUOTE (94bird @ Mar 17 2005, 09:51 PM)

Things aren't changing. I bet in a couple of years I'll have Chinese CDs in my car.

...no....you'll be LIVING in China.....

cooking american food, right?
ROTFLMAO
Sorry, I can't pass up an easy laugh.

severous01

Mar 29 2005, 09:31 PM

my new car will be the new Jetta GLI or Audi A4 quatro. 2.0 turbo, amazing interior, nice ride and sporty feel, decent warranty...plus my girlfriend has a jetta...only complaint i have with it is how they positioned the oil filter facing the front of the car. opposite of the hondas if anyone has worked on them. there is very little room to work with, and the front air dam swoops under the engine making it a pain to reach in the first place. intake manifold and useless plastic blocks access from the top.

as far as windows go, i have a rivet gun, i can fix it.

trackbird

Mar 29 2005, 09:36 PM

QUOTE (pimpmaro @ Mar 19 2005, 02:34 AM)

Kevin... as far as the 6 grand profit and assuming that an automaker won't sell at a lost, my question to you is this. What about the situation of overstocks? The automaker is in a position of having too many units already available for sale that aren't moving, and also a production line that costs the company PLENTY of money for every hour it's shut down. What provides the lesser of two evils? Which position is losing less money? As far as the 6 g profit... I don't think only the automakers are seeing that. I'm pretty sure that the dealers are seing quite a bit of it as well. Just a couple of more thoughts to toss out... I'm just not sure to agree or disagree with all of this. One way or another, I don't exactly like it.

Garrett,

I was somewhat kidding, but that's the way the "average" person seems to think about things. I'm not saying they have 6 grand profit, just that many people won't pay 6k more for a car tomorrow (if they ended the rebates) than they would have today. So, the rebates have to "stay".

That's all I was saying. You dig a hole and get stuck in it.

QUOTE (severous01 @ Mar 29 2005, 04:31 PM)

my new car will be the new Jetta GLI or Audi A4 quatro. 2.0 turbo, amazing interior, nice ride and sporty feel, decent warranty...plus my girlfriend has a jetta...only complaint i have with it is how they positioned the oil filter facing the front of the car. opposite of the hondas if anyone has worked on them. there is very little room to work with, and the front air dam swoops under the engine making it a pain to reach in the first place. intake manifold and useless plastic blocks access from the top.

as far as windows go, i have a rivet gun, i can fix it.

Just be aware that most of my VW's (4 new ones since 2000) have spent some or considerable time in the shop. Out of 4 cars, they've all had problems, every one. (and I still love the cars :stupid: )

LT4Firehawk

Mar 29 2005, 09:42 PM

There are really only a couple of ways for GM to get out of the rebate fiasco that they are in now. One is to make great cars (desirable styling and excellent quality) that people will be willing to pay extra for. The other way is to introduce new models and not give rebates on them when they come out. Unfortunately, I don't think GM will do either, so there sales will continue to slide. That means the only option left is to raise the price enough to cover the rebates.

94bird

Mar 29 2005, 11:49 PM

Some GM employees are suing GM now because GM's policy for 401K company matching was apparently to put it all in GM stock. In the past 3 years GM's stock has gone down about 40%. After some quick looking it looks like Toyota's stock has gone up about that much in the same time frame.

trackbird

Mar 30 2005, 12:55 AM

QUOTE (94bird @ Mar 29 2005, 06:49 PM)

Some GM employees are suing GM now because GM's policy for 401K company matching was apparently to put it all in GM stock. In the past 3 years GM's stock has gone down about 40%. After some quick looking it looks like Toyota's stock has gone up about that much in the same time frame.

Of course "company match" means they are suing over "free money". I'm not saying I'd like my company to put it all in stock that becomes "worthless" (not that it's that bad, just making the extreme point), but if they gave me free money (and invested in any of the stock market), I guess I should expect that I could take a beating on it.