G. David Felt
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I like how here in Washington, state law was passed to keep deceptive advertising from happening. The dealerships advertise their MSRP price or the current discounted price from the OEM on the auto and state plus taxes, title and misc. fees. This way you know there is more than just the price advertised in regards to buying the auto. Out the door ads suck as they are deceptive and if a person needs to stay in a set budget range and show up only to have an alternative and usually higher price, that can really screw up their budget if they get the normal car sales person pressure to buy. Plus they have wasted their time going to the dealer who deceived them anyway. I know each their own on how they interpret the ads but I agree with you CCAP41.
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I think a better way to clarify the Lexus quality thing is they build an excellent product that is stuck at a point in time where others are pushing beyond where Lexus is. I get that some people are happy with a set standard, where others want more. I want more than what Toyota / Lexus offer for not only myself but others.
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I understand what you say and I use my Aunt as one example but have seen this in many friends Lexus and when my sister went car shopping. The RX was a plastic nightmare that she found so many poor fit and finish and total lack of comfort compared to others out there. She looked and test drove Infinity, Acura, Mazda and found what to her was the best luxury in Buick. I have to say spending the whole weekend on various auto lots, test driving and digging into the fit n finish and what is considered Luxury was eye opening as there is clear disconnect between what people say (reports & Marketing) and what is actually out there on the lots. I am glad your father-in-law is happy with his RX350.
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I understand that, and yet what I have seen of their auto's seems to contradict that. My aunt is stuck on Lexus only and yet seems to have hers in the dealership for many issues from falling headliner to trim pieces coming off. Yes she is one of those people that trades it in every 3 years and yet with the amount of visits to the dealership, I am just surprised that people buy it. I guess they get their number 1 rating for taking care of the customer. Good for them.
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Seems that like balthazar says, they could do with ending the following models: AMG Gt SL SLC Smart G-Wagon B-Class Those would free up money for the rest of the product line to make it better and invest in their EVs.
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Wishing you a Great Day!
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Totally agree with Drew, Due Diligence is every person/business responsibility when buying something. 20K Ampera-E sales is totally doable and based on the huge pre-sales that PSA has since stopped taking since they are so far behind in getting the auto to customers. I would say PSA should be looking at selling more not less since they are complaining about the pollution fine on their existing sales of new diesel / petro. Having a product line that lacks clean efficiency in Europe with all the rapid changes happening for clean air and water and then stopping sales of a very successful EV auto is just stupid. PSA Knee Jerk reaction and their instant response is legal action rather than how do we turn this around asap. Clearly some questionable mgmt. on PSA, the board, etc..
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Lots of interesting details: https://hedgescompany.com/automotive-market-research-statistics/auto-mailing-lists-and-marketing This is from the story above:
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Musk thinks he can apply open source software fixes to hardware being auto's. THIS is a FAILURE. Hardware has Alpha and Beta testing for a reason, so you can have near perfect auto's come off the assembly line. On top of this not mentioned is Musk desire for JIT manufacturing when his company does not have the experience to do JIT assembly. Musk can make money and build a long lasting company by taking a couple steps backwards to get 5000 cars a week forward in production. As they say in racing, Slower and consistent is faster than balls to the wall scary driving.
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110,000 is crazy amount and no advertising. WOW.
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Wow, Thought both of those were dead.
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So our detour into history and pollution does make me wonder when do we leave history in the books and rebuild an area for the betterment of human life compared to trying to preserve all things old? With that question in mind, that brings us back to our core conversation of PSA and the refund asked of GM. With this we have two questions that come to my mind off the top of many: Is it cheaper to litigate this in the courts for ever or just come to some agreement and walk away from the mess that Opel is? Knowing the history and what the European gov is doing, limiting sales of the Amp-E by Opel at a time that PSA due to their own poor emissions record needs help, Is it really the smart thing to do? Versus move forward with moving all new and future product onto a PSA platform for Hybrid / EV and sell as much as you can get from GM of a rebadge Amp-E. One does wonder about the mgmt skill set of PSA.
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Agreed, the Honda is the worse, but then their whole current sharp awkward edges is terrible.
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Yup for any of us that have traveled or do travel as I do for trade shows in Europe. The Diesel smell along with the damage from acid rain especially in Germany where I go allot for work shows how damaging Diesel is. I love Diesel and the clean diesel we have here in America is great compared to the unhindered mother earth destroying diesel that has been sold for ever in Europe. This is why Europe, China are all pushing so hard on EV is the need to clean up for health and so much more.
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Yes, such a sad state of auto design style.
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Guess it is just the nature of these beasts that there is not much difference look wise between the 3 versions on the market.
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So are you buying a New Pacifica Hybrid Minivan?
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Based on your attitude towards EVs, a very Baby Boomer mentality that Women are second class and must obey the men. So in this case, Mother Earth will do as the men say!
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Borrego? Sounds like some burrito truck from south of the border. Interesting, the reviews on the Borrego are either amazing best ever or terrible, never again will I buy Kia. Weird as even the professional reviews are extreme one way or another. Crazy and only one year with a V8
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