chadhargis wrote:
Auto manufacturers wonder why they are going broke??
It's because they don't give us the vehicles we want. Have they not noticed that anything with a diesel sells like hotcakes here in the US and if you can find one used, they are still freakin' expensive.
Case in point, look at a VW Jetta TDI. New, they are around $25,000, and when I was looking for one, I was finding examples 4 and 5 years old with 60,000 to 80,000 miles for $19,000....and people were buying them before I could get to the dealership to look at it. The only deal I found was a 2003 model, 5-speed, leather, sunroof...the works.....53,000 miles....they wanted $16,000 for it. It sold before I got to the dealership. Sat on the lot less than one day.
It's because they don't give us the vehicles we want. Have they not noticed that anything with a diesel sells like hotcakes here in the US and if you can find one used, they are still freakin' expensive.
Case in point, look at a VW Jetta TDI. New, they are around $25,000, and when I was looking for one, I was finding examples 4 and 5 years old with 60,000 to 80,000 miles for $19,000....and people were buying them before I could get to the dealership to look at it. The only deal I found was a 2003 model, 5-speed, leather, sunroof...the works.....53,000 miles....they wanted $16,000 for it. It sold before I got to the dealership. Sat on the lot less than one day.
No argument there. Over on tdiclub, one gent reported watching Charlie Rose on PBS. He was interviewing one of the high level execs with Ford. Charlie asked him why they didn't bring over some of the high mileage diesel models they were selling in Europe. Exec's answer was simply "Americans won't buy diesels".
So much for market research.
