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What car would you buy with a $13,000 budget?
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<blockquote data-quote="youdoofus" data-source="post: 8574034" data-attributes="member: 664079"><p>generally speaking, yes, but some automakers have severely floundered in that area. Take Mercedes for example, their reliability during the late 90s and way into the early 2000s fell below that of ford on average. Some automakers have deliberately taken steps to make their cars more disposable as they saw profits in selling a new car every 2 to 3 years because they just didnt feel as tight as they once did to their respective owners. Couple that with the ever emerging tech that we seems to need that "requires" a new vehicle as opposed to retro factory upgrades, and voila, disposable cars that sell. Its a fine balance tho, make em to crappy, people wont want em, make em too good, and they wont need to be replaced as often. Take Kia for example, 8 years ago they were a laughing stock, now they sell like hotcakes in direct competition with honda and toyota</p><p></p><p>another thing thats pretty funny, remember the AUW? Remember the employees that got $20/hr to put lug nuts on the wheels that got replaced by machines? The machines have LONG since paid for themselves, and the cost of maintenance/repair/upgrading/replacing of the machines is long since a moot point yet auto mfg's are reaping record profits. <a href="http://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2016/02/03/gm-posts-63b-4th-quarter-profit-and-97-b-2015/79713196/" target="_blank">Refer to this article for just one instance of proof </a>. Its just nots how much profit theyre making for just having had purchased a few companies and rehashing a TON of engineering. And im not just picking on GM, theyre just the first that came to mind. Toyota, until very recently, has had the same record breaking profits <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/05/11/toyota-profits-forecast-drop/" target="_blank">as seen here</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="youdoofus, post: 8574034, member: 664079"] generally speaking, yes, but some automakers have severely floundered in that area. Take Mercedes for example, their reliability during the late 90s and way into the early 2000s fell below that of ford on average. Some automakers have deliberately taken steps to make their cars more disposable as they saw profits in selling a new car every 2 to 3 years because they just didnt feel as tight as they once did to their respective owners. Couple that with the ever emerging tech that we seems to need that "requires" a new vehicle as opposed to retro factory upgrades, and voila, disposable cars that sell. Its a fine balance tho, make em to crappy, people wont want em, make em too good, and they wont need to be replaced as often. Take Kia for example, 8 years ago they were a laughing stock, now they sell like hotcakes in direct competition with honda and toyota another thing thats pretty funny, remember the AUW? Remember the employees that got $20/hr to put lug nuts on the wheels that got replaced by machines? The machines have LONG since paid for themselves, and the cost of maintenance/repair/upgrading/replacing of the machines is long since a moot point yet auto mfg's are reaping record profits. [URL="http://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2016/02/03/gm-posts-63b-4th-quarter-profit-and-97-b-2015/79713196/"]Refer to this article for just one instance of proof [/URL]. Its just nots how much profit theyre making for just having had purchased a few companies and rehashing a TON of engineering. And im not just picking on GM, theyre just the first that came to mind. Toyota, until very recently, has had the same record breaking profits [URL="http://fortune.com/2016/05/11/toyota-profits-forecast-drop/"]as seen here[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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