The good news is....US manufacturer truck sales are going through the roof...big profit on big trucks...
The bad news is....US manufacturer truck sales are going through the roof...the next jump in gas prices will slam the gas hogs just like in the past...big profit losses as truck sales decline...
Pretty funny, back during the gas price blip I picked up a *really* nice SUV way back of the market some putz sold to buy a Prius.
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Funny, but sad...Originally Posted by Veritas
The truck/car ratio is at its highest level since I started tracking the data a couple of years ago...the loss of truck sales is what put Detroit profits in the chitter...I am afraid we could have a repeat in a year or two...
I bought a new truck, so I did my part.
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I bought a Prius after having an SUV for about 5 years. Why is that in and of itself sad?
I don't see the trucks like what they use to be. The older trucks of the 90's would get very, bad, awful gas milage and nobody cared. They can't really get away with that today. Now they're praising high gas milage in trucks when in the past that wasn't an option. If you want a big engine, you'll pay a gas guzzler tax and most of the time it's an option. Not to mention Ford is getting ready to start putting it's Ecoboost engines into it's trucks starting in 2011.
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It's not, other than the fact that its net lifetime environmental impact is worse then a Hummer.
(Yes, it's so, even though the envirofreak Pacific Institute tried to discredit the report).
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I didn't buy it because I thought I would make some huge impact on the environment--although that seems to be the standard assumption.
The savings in fuel costs compared to a Hummer is quite remarkable however.
I usually fill up my Hummer and then spray about another gallon or two out on the ground after I am done. Just because I can.
Zoolander style.
Because you bought a Prius.
Damn, I can't think of anything smart-assed to say in response.posse member
Circular conversations are circular.
I hope you didn't but it for it's looks.
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Re: US total new vehicle sales..
There is some underlying wisdom to owning the Prius
You can be burried in it; thus saving casket costs!
How can there be too many children?
That is like saying there are too many flowers.
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(Or, too many tax-payers!)
They're incredibly cool cars from an engineering perspective.
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Re: US total new vehicle sales..
Phil!
The housing market being what it is....
Any chance folks are buying big trucks to live in?
How can there be too many children?
That is like saying there are too many flowers.
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(Or, too many tax-payers!)
It's like a tampon in wheels.
I mean no disrespect if you have a Prius and love it, more power to you. My dad owned one and it nearly killed him. In a fender bender.
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I'll be cremated and scattered over Owen Field.
I'm not following your analogy--a tampon kills people who have fender benders?
And no disrespect taken, I'm used to the kinda-cranky-I-know-what's-right-posting style that is prevalent on the SO.
Since my old car didn't Qualify for the Obamabate....I bought a 1988 Chevy 1500.
Trucks are a lot more fuel efficient than they used to be.
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A lot?
I'm not gonna say a lot. No more than if when you bought a truck and went and chipped it out and put a after market air cleaner on it. Plus...look at what the damn things cost.
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