takemorepills
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Bought a 2020 for mama Dec 2019, so she's lucky. I guess I'm gonna have to make do with my 2014 for as long as possible.....at least I like the car."With no relief in sight for the chip shortage, the time has come to adapt to it"
"This is the new normal"
Fortunately, I bought one new and two used vehicles, just before the COVID era and all this stuff blew up. So my "adapt to it" is increasingly looking like telling auto-makers "see ya", and sticking with my current vehicles.
Also regarding the litany of excuses from COVID to "high seismic activity and geopolitical tensions" mentioned in this article to name a few. Seismic activity, lol. In that case there will always be something. Yeah, this situation is not clearing up anytime soon it seems.
I'm really worried that all of these desirable vehicles, being under-produced, will create permanently high pricing. Less new cars=less used cars. I don't think people realize that when they say "when things get back to normal" the cars we want are being outlawed eventually, and the longer these issues persist, the more likely it is that the models we want today, will NEVER become reasonably priced, used. There will be too few.
BTW, also pay attention to the increasing MSRPs. Manufacturers want in on the dealership markups, they see every vehicle they produce being sold for way over MSRP, they'll keep jacking up MSRP, $1k per year, testing how much people will pay per unit. There's absolutely zero risk to the manufacturers that they won't sell every single vehicle as people are desperate.
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