American car companies love nothing more than to gouge people with their MSRP's and then let their dealerships gouge them even more. They're getting EXACTLY what they deserve.
They like to gouge because they know the tax codes allow them to gouge tax write-off buyers. They can manufacture and sell less inventory at a higher profit margin, yet still make the same or more $$$$ in the end. Whilst the tax payers who aren't entitled to tax write-offs (non-business owners) are paying more for a truck now days and making less $$$$, because of inflation and higher taxes due to inflation.
Currently the feds and the unions wont let them. They HAVE to have the safety stuff which is huge $$$ and unions keep striking and misleading the public which has cost a ton of $$$. Also the pandemic caused problems that are still not completely resolved. Restructure how these things are run and handled and we can get cheap trucks back.
In 1983 I bought my very first new car. I got my hands on a 1983 Ford Mustang GT five speed out the door price was $11,550. In 1994 my Chevy S-10 extended cab pick up was $14,000 out the door. In 2001 my Dodge Dakota pick up four-door with a 4.7 L was 24 nine out the door.
I hate to say it, but if BYD can make an affordable and reliable vehicle in North America, more power to them. The current auto makers are failing the consumer in almost every way. I'l be watching BYD closely.
The ‘chicken tax’ (which is insanely ridiculous) prevents Americans from owning great vehicles like the Hi Lux. I just stopped at the local Ford dealer. 2023 Ford F150 Lariat: $78,000.00
My question is this: when the subject came up at Ford, GM, and Ram "what will be the sticker price on this", and the answer was "over $60,000", how come nobody with power said "well, we won't be able to sell them because almost no American can afford a truck that expensive"? Did people with power in these companies just say "oh well, if it's gotta be $60,000 and up, I guess people will just have to pay that price"?
I'd love to see more competition from BYD, or any other newcomer. If it's manufactured in Mexico as of right now there are no US tariffs. Off topic....BTW Mark my wife says keep the beard!
Thanks Tom I appreciate the beard comment and you are right, with the NAFTA in place, Mexico is staged perfectly to supply future vehicles in abundance to the north. Have a great weekend.
People also got to watch the JDM importers too, the trend is also the Kei Trucks and also the Kei Cars right now too, even with the bans in 5 states (Georgia included), for Louisiana and Texas both allow Kei Trucks on the roads (55 Mph or Less on the side of Louisiana) on the highway! And also due to these Imports and also RUclipsrs that are talking about it (WayBeforeTheFame especially) don't forget the Kei Trucks too for those that also want the Internal Combustion Engine route too.
I've seen several of these types of channels reviewing all types of vehicles, but unfortunately, they usually have click bait titles. Well, this one didn't disappoint, the title mentioning a cheap truck with no price range even mentioned, and the tanking of GM and Ford has not happened, as we don't even know if this truck will make it to the US. You will get more subscribers if you are honest about your videos. You get the quick look at this one, but then no one (including myself) looks at any of your other videos.
120k for a Denali 😂😂. Another one I've noticed, but not seeing a lot of good youtubers talk about it is the amount of rust on the new Chevy 2500hd. Their wax coat is waaay worse now
It is this similar tax that led to the Americans opening factories in Canada as part of the Auto Pact. Genius on our part to place tariffs on American products. Forced the Americans to create jobs in Canada.
BYD build your dreams is a very promising automaker. It’s even outdoing Tesla at the world forum. Have a look at U8 model from BYD. They give value for money products.
Not as much as Legacy auto management needs the Chicken tax. It was implemented in 1964, and it was the Big Three that lobbied the US govt to put it in place, not the line workers. Once again, its management fucking over the consumer, but you drank the kool-aid and now you blame the people that carried these companies (accepting wage loss and no cost of living increases)thru Tarp, multiple bailouts for shareholders, and repeated price gouging. Also, this BYD would be built in Mexico, no UAW there at this time.
Available in Mexico isn't the same as available in the USA. They will have to make a lot of changes to meet USA Safety Requirements, that will add $10K minimum to price. Then the dealers will stick another $8K worth of add-ons I didn't ask for on it. I don't expect to see them for anything under $28K.
That's great news!!....Looks fantastic too....i hope they give the other brands a good kick...any competition is better than what we are faced with now....I just hope we get more competition in Canada for Grocery stores and Communications.....Well the old saying is your give them enough rope......with more competition.....I'm sure a slow but sure death will follow....Thanks Mark....great stuff!!!
People can afford cars, they just can’t afford new or even recent models. I’ve been driving my ‘99 Ford Contour for a year now, bought it for $650 and have only put a battery in it.
I have no interest in a plug in anything and i feel im not alone in that, maybe i can be won over if i learned more. I just want a solid little v6, boxy, basic truck.
You hit the nail on the head ,just can't afford a new truck period head start spinning when you see the price tag with insurance rates climbing and cost of fuel really a new truck of any kind is now just becoming a dream and even if I could I have more pressing needs like every one else worrying about kids collage and cost of giving my family a decent living standard, sad times indeed of greed unchecked in and around the automobile and housing industry.
Exactly and the Honda has a naturally aspirated V6 Honda motor thats so smooth and the interior is wide really wide and comfortable. The Ridgeline drives like a luxury SUV and the Maverick drives like an economy car and has a 4 banger. The Ridgeline is the only pickup in the top ten of this year's American-Made Index list.
@@tomTrophy it's cheaper than a dodge and will last longer if your curiosity has the better of you. You know what they say about curiosity killing the cat
@@tomTrophy I owned 2 Rams. The last one was a 2015 5.7 with 3.92 gears. I wanted to like it but it was unreliable, the body lines were the worst of any truck ive ever owned and overall build quality was terrible. It was the cheapest full sized truck for a reason. The Honda is smaller, easier to park, fits in the garage and it feels and is built like a luxury suv and it does everything I need it to do and more.
Just got the wife a new 2024 Mazda CX-5 preffered for $32k otd (US) Made in Japan with a reliable track record. If you aren't a snob and want solid transportation....don't sleep on Mazda.
I would absolutely never even consider buying a chinese deathtrap! On the other hand, the American brands need a good competitive kick in the ass otherwise they'll never make an affordable truck. Don't even bring up the maverick because they're basically vaporware.
Over many years I bought two GMC Work trucks...used of course. They were both basic....Vortec V 6, 2 WD 5 years old or so. . As a commercial fisherman I needed a truck. I ran one, a 5 year old, for about six years and the second, same package, for about 7 K and ran it for about 7 years . I sold both of them for about $2K. The work truck does not exist anymore.
Who the hell wants a Chinese car that will burst into flames at any time? At least they could equip the car with a robust "fire suppression system" but, that would tack on an additional 5K, or so!
I have a contractor I have a dodge power waggon that is very very hard on fuel if I have to get a staff member to run to Home Depot they don’t have to drive some that gets 9 mph. I need a small truck like an 80s Toyota four-wheel-drive truck that size like it’s good gas mileage as most the time you’re not . 10, thousand pounds or caring 2000 pounds and weight, there is a huge market for small trucks that are for utility. Why do you think the old Toyota trucks are worth so much money but small cheap trucks that are durable companies wake up
The RAM 700 could help you with those tasks or if you need something bigger the Nissan NP300 also have a 4 cylinder engine In the same size of the RAM 700 there’s also the Chevrolet Tornado, Renault Oroch, Fiat Toro, VW Saveiro, and in the same size of the NP300 there’s also the Chevrolet S10
We just need Americans to unite and pick a month to boycott these composite and not buy a single new vehicle (unless absolutely necessary). Imagine the message that would send to them? Also, I doubt the industry is demanding a smaller truck, the small truck is mainly sold as an affordable fleet vehicle.
If BYD’s plan is to successfully enter the North American market by causing a drastic price disruption, building a vehicle in Mexico that will start around $54000 USD isn’t it. Sorry. Now if they built a midsize truck that competes with GM, Ford & Toyota midsize segment & costs in the $30K range, then it has a chance even though it’s Chinese/Mexican built. Right now as it stands it’s like a Toyota Tacoma price wise, which although is built in Mexico and overpriced has a reputation for reliability and a dealer network for repairs. Hard pass & DOA for BYD.
You know what these car makers are counting on???? Businesses buying and depreciating the trucks! Most consumers are not buying these 4x4 super duty trucks!!!!! Partially thank the US IRS!!
look at some of the reviews of BYD (and other) low-end Chinese cars and trucks that come from reviewers out of China ... I don't think most people will be very interested. assembled in Mexico with Chinese components. What could go wrong?
Because I flip cars I go to the auto wreck quite often if the auto wrecker has a small 80s Toyota four-wheel-drive truck that looks like scrap metal someone will pay 3000 bucks for it to restore it. If you have an 80s luxury vehicle it is scrap metal. No one’s gonna restore a big scrap metal boat.
Buying a Chinese truck is like a sin , however Ford,GMC,Toyota , and Ram do not care about the consumer. All they care about it money so I say bring on the Chinese cars.
I want the Denali dually. Sadly, what most people don't understand is that and many of these aren't overpriced it's that you aren't making enough $. If you follow inflation over the decades that truck isn't overpriced. It was 75k 20 years ago. In the early nineties like 68k. In the 80s 44 k. It's matched or been less than inflation. If you match with everything else it should be 165k USD .
Let's just cut to the chase: American vehicle companies are on their way out, and what will replace them are chinese vehicles, just as chinese goods have displaced every other U.S. manufacturing sector. So, as we see U.S. vehicle manufacturers trying to survive on ridiculously priced behemoth trucks and SUVs this is essentially their last gasp before they permanently throw in the towel. Frankly, I am tired of hearing about their woes and hope they just end it sooner than later. Honestly, we are already a third of the way there as the former Chrylser Corp. has been absorbed by Stallantis (sic) which boasts the likes of shoddy makes like Fiat in their realm.
Yuh. I dont think people want a byd. I think they want a pay raise to fix the labor market. Then they can afford a domestic truck. More Chinese junk doesnt fix the problem. We have plenty of cheap chinese electronic crap that didn't fix the problem. The grocery bill is still $300 a week. Electric bill. Taxes. They need a raise. Not china imports
NOPE I will never not buy a Chinees vehicle. I got a 2023 Nissan Fronter (38K) made in the USA that gets 530 per tank and no batteries. 25 mpg. sometimes 28mpg.
Let’s stop pretending that people want cheap small trucks. As soon as they start sending them out, they’ll collect on the lots too. People want cheap prices but they want big 4 door trucks, not toys. People want 30k f150s and they’ll still complain about quality. Everything has pretty well doubled in price in past 4 years. Why would cars stay the same or get cheaper whether people have money or not. The more unaffordable life becomes, the more profit that people will try to make. It’s called inflation
I have a contractor I have a dodge power waggon that is very very hard on fuel if I have to get a staff member to run to Home Depot they don’t have to drive some that gets 9 mph. I need a small truck like an 80s Toyota four-wheel-drive truck that size like it’s good gas mileage as most the time you’re not . 10, thousand pounds or caring 2000 pounds and weight, there is a huge market for small trucks that are for utility. Why do you think the old Toyota trucks are worth so much money but small cheap trucks that are durable companies wake up
American car companies love nothing more than to gouge people with their MSRP's and then let their dealerships gouge them even more. They're getting EXACTLY what they deserve.
Rightfully so
They like to gouge because they know the tax codes allow them to gouge tax write-off buyers. They can manufacture and sell less inventory at a higher profit margin, yet still make the same or more $$$$ in the end. Whilst the tax payers who aren't entitled to tax write-offs (non-business owners) are paying more for a truck now days and making less $$$$, because of inflation and higher taxes due to inflation.
Toyota has joined this game recently
Just make a simple no-frills TRUCK for $20,000 and you will sell millions. Who will do it???
Wheels and engines are not included
Ford did with the maverick and they won’t build enough to meet demand so dealers can mark them up
Currently the feds and the unions wont let them. They HAVE to have the safety stuff which is huge $$$ and unions keep striking and misleading the public which has cost a ton of $$$.
Also the pandemic caused problems that are still not completely resolved.
Restructure how these things are run and handled and we can get cheap trucks back.
Less than 20 years ago, you could get a Peterbilt for $120k
Now that’s the price of a Ford Raptor R
In 1983 I bought my very first new car. I got my hands on a 1983 Ford Mustang GT five speed out the door price was $11,550. In 1994 my Chevy S-10 extended cab pick up was $14,000 out the door. In 2001 my Dodge Dakota pick up four-door with a 4.7 L was 24 nine out the door.
I always borrow my neighbor's "hoopty truck" when I need one. He never charges me. Now that's what I call the " Good Neighbor Policy." 😊
We are living the early eighties all over again massive inflation and expensive junk cars and trucks. Time truly does repeat itself!
I hate to say it, but if BYD can make an affordable and reliable vehicle in North America, more power to them. The current auto makers are failing the consumer in almost every way. I'l be watching BYD closely.
i hope BYD fixed their spontaneous combustion problem of their batteries
They can't fix that. If you don't want to be cremated, then DO NOT BUY BYD.
@@weightbally9671They are garbage.. full of gremlins..👎
The ‘chicken tax’ (which is insanely ridiculous) prevents Americans from owning great vehicles like the Hi Lux.
I just stopped at the local Ford dealer. 2023 Ford F150 Lariat: $78,000.00
Wow, and thats how the consumer gets hosed.
My question is this: when the subject came up at Ford, GM, and Ram "what will be the sticker price on this", and the answer was "over $60,000", how come nobody with power said "well, we won't be able to sell them because almost no American can afford a truck that expensive"? Did people with power in these companies just say "oh well, if it's gotta be $60,000 and up, I guess people will just have to pay that price"?
Scotty is talking about this truck too. May be a game changer.
When I was a wee kid, I thought GMC stood for General Motor of Canada, as in the Canadian branch of General Motors.
You bought a rwd truck in Alberta, ballsy
Well the market adjusting itself. There's nothing to go but down. Lot of these trucks shouldn't costs more than 50k. Starting at mid 20s.
I'd love to see more competition from BYD, or any other newcomer. If it's manufactured in Mexico as of right now there are no US tariffs. Off topic....BTW Mark my wife says keep the beard!
Thanks Tom I appreciate the beard comment and you are right, with the NAFTA in place, Mexico is staged perfectly to supply future vehicles in abundance to the north. Have a great weekend.
People also got to watch the JDM importers too, the trend is also the Kei Trucks and also the Kei Cars right now too, even with the bans in 5 states (Georgia included), for Louisiana and Texas both allow Kei Trucks on the roads (55 Mph or Less on the side of Louisiana) on the highway! And also due to these Imports and also RUclipsrs that are talking about it (WayBeforeTheFame especially) don't forget the Kei Trucks too for those that also want the Internal Combustion Engine route too.
Exactly
I will never buy a vehicle made in mexico.
Yep, build quality sucks.
It’s simply an options. How good it is, will still take time to flush out.
Nice
In Germany they used to say the same about VWs and BMWs made in Eastern Europe.
@stockey all that money going straight to the cartels
I've seen several of these types of channels reviewing all types of vehicles, but unfortunately, they usually have click bait titles. Well, this one didn't disappoint, the title mentioning a cheap truck with no price range even mentioned, and the tanking of GM and Ford has not happened, as we don't even know if this truck will make it to the US.
You will get more subscribers if you are honest about your videos. You get the quick look at this one, but then no one (including myself) looks at any of your other videos.
He actually has some good ones a few years ago I noticed. Guessing no one watched so he went to this to get more viewers
120k for a Denali 😂😂.
Another one I've noticed, but not seeing a lot of good youtubers talk about it is the amount of rust on the new Chevy 2500hd. Their wax coat is waaay worse now
The BYD also comes standard with a battery that violently explodes quite easily. They can keep it.
It is this similar tax that led to the Americans opening factories in Canada as part of the Auto Pact. Genius on our part to place tariffs on American products. Forced the Americans to create jobs in Canada.
I'm not sold on the Chinese quality. I've seen other stuff made in China and the quality is definitely not up to par.
BYD build your dreams is a very promising automaker. It’s even outdoing Tesla at the world forum. Have a look at U8 model from BYD. They give value for money products.
@@guramandeepsingh589you've got to be kidding. Even if China could make something quality they would give it to us
@@itsallminor6133 why not? Is US selling their products in China?
Guess who wanted that chicken tax? The auto unions.
Not as much as Legacy auto management needs the Chicken tax.
It was implemented in 1964, and it was the Big Three that lobbied the US govt to put it in place, not the line workers.
Once again, its management fucking over the consumer, but you drank the kool-aid and now you blame the people that carried these companies (accepting wage loss and no cost of living increases)thru Tarp, multiple bailouts for shareholders, and repeated price gouging.
Also, this BYD would be built in Mexico, no UAW there at this time.
I was at Ford yesterday on a delivery saw a truck for $39 big ones .not bad but what is this price adjustment bringing up to 45😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
Available in Mexico isn't the same as available in the USA. They will have to make a lot of changes to meet USA Safety Requirements, that will add $10K minimum to price. Then the dealers will stick another $8K worth of add-ons I didn't ask for on it. I don't expect to see them for anything under $28K.
Great video, keep them coming
Thanks so much
That's great news!!....Looks fantastic too....i hope they give the other brands a good kick...any competition is better than what we are faced with now....I just hope we get more competition in Canada for Grocery stores and Communications.....Well the old saying is your give them enough rope......with more competition.....I'm sure a slow but sure death will follow....Thanks Mark....great stuff!!!
People can afford cars, they just can’t afford new or even recent models. I’ve been driving my ‘99 Ford Contour for a year now, bought it for $650 and have only put a battery in it.
Is it an SE? How reliable has it been?
@@upbeattvraw-hiphop8242 It is an SE, V6 with 5 speed manual transmission. Been very reliable, I absolutely love it, nice driving car.
I have no interest in a plug in anything and i feel im not alone in that, maybe i can be won over if i learned more. I just want a solid little v6, boxy, basic truck.
Sounds like the nissan frontier. That's what I'm looking at
We’ve also sold our collective souls to China, so why not?
Ouch,
You hit the nail on the head ,just can't afford a new truck period head start spinning when you see the price tag with insurance rates climbing and cost of fuel really a new truck of any kind is now just becoming a dream and even if I could I have more pressing needs like every one else worrying about kids collage and cost of giving my family a decent living standard, sad times indeed of greed unchecked in and around the automobile and housing industry.
The Maverick is made in Mexico, so forget about it, I'll get the Honda Ridgeline instead
Exactly and the Honda has a naturally aspirated V6 Honda motor thats so smooth and the interior is wide really wide and comfortable. The Ridgeline drives like a luxury SUV and the Maverick drives like an economy car and has a 4 banger. The Ridgeline is the only pickup in the top ten of this year's American-Made Index list.
Ford hires the cheap Mexican labor while the Chinese are BRINGING THEIR OWN WITH THE3M!
Lol, Ridgelines start around 45k.
At that price, why are you even looking at a suv with a shallow, midget bed?
@@tomTrophy it's cheaper than a dodge and will last longer if your curiosity has the better of you. You know what they say about curiosity killing the cat
@@tomTrophy I owned 2 Rams. The last one was a 2015 5.7 with 3.92 gears. I wanted to like it but it was unreliable, the body lines were the worst of any truck ive ever owned and overall build quality was terrible. It was the cheapest full sized truck for a reason. The Honda is smaller, easier to park, fits in the garage and it feels and is built like a luxury suv and it does everything I need it to do and more.
Just got the wife a new 2024 Mazda CX-5 preffered for $32k otd (US)
Made in Japan with a reliable track record. If you aren't a snob and want solid transportation....don't sleep on Mazda.
Lol. Chinese batteries are burning and exploding in their EV's every day.
But will it come to the US? I will believe it when I see one in the wild.
I do like that Denali. For what you are getting that's actually a better deal than a Honda accord or Toyota 4runner
I would absolutely never even consider buying a chinese deathtrap! On the other hand, the American brands need a good competitive kick in the ass otherwise they'll never make an affordable truck. Don't even bring up the maverick because they're basically vaporware.
The new Tacoma is a disappointment. Too expensive!
Over many years I bought two GMC Work trucks...used of course. They were both basic....Vortec V 6, 2 WD 5 years old or so. . As a commercial fisherman I needed a truck. I ran one, a 5 year old, for about six years and the second, same package, for about 7 K and ran it for about 7 years . I sold both of them for about $2K. The work truck does not exist anymore.
They still have base models. Run you 39k usd
China, no thanks, I'll stay with used gasoline cars from B4 2014, this is getting so out of hand
Who the hell wants a Chinese car that will burst into flames at any time? At least they could equip the car with a robust "fire suppression system" but, that would tack on an additional 5K, or so!
We need this old toyota and mazda small pickups that rides forever
Mazda trucks left us. Not many even remember now.
Dude there will be no cheap truck.
I have been looking up those copied designs for awhile now. That crappy chinese truck looks like a Ford gm blend design.
I have a contractor I have a dodge power waggon that is very very hard on fuel if I have to get a staff member to run to Home Depot they don’t have to drive some that gets 9 mph. I need a small truck like an 80s Toyota four-wheel-drive truck that size like it’s good gas mileage as most the time you’re not . 10, thousand pounds or caring 2000 pounds and weight, there is a huge market for small trucks that are for utility. Why do you think the old Toyota trucks are worth so much money but small cheap trucks that are durable companies wake up
The RAM 700 could help you with those tasks or if you need something bigger the Nissan NP300 also have a 4 cylinder engine
In the same size of the RAM 700 there’s also the Chevrolet Tornado, Renault Oroch, Fiat Toro, VW Saveiro, and in the same size of the NP300 there’s also the Chevrolet S10
Why not van?
And byd has more fires than canadas forests in summer
Damn
Right?
As soon as you say hybrid I don’t want it.
A Chinese truck that's made in Mexico....what could go wrong?😅
Nah. I’ll just keep my old Tacoma.
We just need Americans to unite and pick a month to boycott these composite and not buy a single new vehicle (unless absolutely necessary). Imagine the message that would send to them?
Also, I doubt the industry is demanding a smaller truck, the small truck is mainly sold as an affordable fleet vehicle.
Sorry Mark, I would never buy that Chinese junk. I don't care about the price. It's the principle of it. Keep it out!
do not give your money/encouragement to the C.C.P.
May 17, 2024.
Biden adds tariffs on Chinese critical minerals, EVs.
Bye bye BYD.
Good
If BYD’s plan is to successfully enter the North American market by causing a drastic price disruption, building a vehicle in Mexico that will start around $54000 USD isn’t it. Sorry.
Now if they built a midsize truck that competes with GM, Ford & Toyota midsize segment & costs in the $30K range, then it has a chance even though it’s Chinese/Mexican built.
Right now as it stands it’s like a Toyota Tacoma price wise, which although is built in Mexico and overpriced has a reputation for reliability and a dealer network for repairs. Hard pass & DOA for BYD.
Some great points
You know what these car makers are counting on???? Businesses buying and depreciating the trucks! Most consumers are not buying these 4x4 super duty trucks!!!!! Partially thank the US IRS!!
There goes Made in America
Americans will be jealous traveling in Mexico seeing all these foreign trucks and cars they cannot buy in the US.
Haha
Yeah, so jealous 😅
Yep they only want the giant gas guzzlers to drain Americans wallets
Would be nice if we could see more pictures of the BYD truck instead of seeing your face all the time.
Ford Escape for $40k, buy a RAV4 instead.
look at some of the reviews of BYD (and other) low-end Chinese cars and trucks that come from reviewers out of China ... I don't think most people will be very interested.
assembled in Mexico with Chinese components. What could go wrong?
It's junk. The problem is the middle class was hollowed out. They are begging for affordable junk now. They should be making 3 x as much.
More junk with no resell in the future!😢
Because I flip cars I go to the auto wreck quite often if the auto wrecker has a small 80s Toyota four-wheel-drive truck that looks like scrap metal someone will pay 3000 bucks for it to restore it. If you have an 80s luxury vehicle it is scrap metal. No one’s gonna restore a big scrap metal boat.
Why do
i think nobody is tanked?
It'll split in half in a month. Here we have lots of Chinese trucks and all of them are hilariously bad.
Well, I live in the middle of the war and there are tons of Chinese trucks JAC used by the army. They are doing ok.
Buying a Chinese truck is like a sin , however Ford,GMC,Toyota , and Ram do not care about the consumer. All they care about it money so I say bring on the Chinese cars.
I want the Denali dually.
Sadly, what most people don't understand is that and many of these aren't overpriced it's that you aren't making enough $. If you follow inflation over the decades that truck isn't overpriced. It was 75k 20 years ago. In the early nineties like 68k. In the 80s 44 k. It's matched or been less than inflation. If you match with everything else it should be 165k USD .
Absolutely will not buy that. You can bet it will be cheaply made too if it comes from China.
Let's just cut to the chase: American vehicle companies are on their way out, and what will replace them are chinese vehicles, just as chinese goods have displaced every other U.S. manufacturing sector. So, as we see U.S. vehicle manufacturers trying to survive on ridiculously priced behemoth trucks and SUVs this is essentially their last gasp before they permanently throw in the towel. Frankly, I am tired of hearing about their woes and hope they just end it sooner than later. Honestly, we are already a third of the way there as the former Chrylser Corp. has been absorbed by Stallantis (sic) which boasts the likes of shoddy makes like Fiat in their realm.
It's a gm Denial. People are in Denial by buying those over priced poor quality made vehicles.
Lost me at China and Mexico.
Yuh. I dont think people want a byd. I think they want a pay raise to fix the labor market. Then they can afford a domestic truck. More Chinese junk doesnt fix the problem. We have plenty of cheap chinese electronic crap that didn't fix the problem. The grocery bill is still $300 a week. Electric bill. Taxes. They need a raise. Not china imports
Cheap truck is going to burn down in the streets. No thank you.
I'll personally never buy a Chinese vehicle. I'll drive my 14 year old rust bucket first
The Ford Escape is junk
Yup he said that.
Hopefully this is better quality than the Chinese motorcycles.
Time will tell
You probably don’t know Volvo, Buick and polestar are Chinese vehicles.😂
cfmoto is not bad
@@g7003041 I sure do, Buick is still GM.
I have a Chinese motorcycle no problems
I don’t think we’ll see this in Canada/USA
That’s fair, time will tell
NOPE I will never not buy a Chinees vehicle. I got a 2023 Nissan Fronter (38K) made in the USA that gets 530 per tank and no batteries. 25 mpg. sometimes 28mpg.
I'll buy a $100k truck before this garbage
Hybrid .............nope, will not be buying it
exactly
Let’s stop pretending that people want cheap small trucks. As soon as they start sending them out, they’ll collect on the lots too. People want cheap prices but they want big 4 door trucks, not toys. People want 30k f150s and they’ll still complain about quality. Everything has pretty well doubled in price in past 4 years. Why would cars stay the same or get cheaper whether people have money or not. The more unaffordable life becomes, the more profit that people will try to make. It’s called inflation
People can’t afford big trucks. Dependable and cheap is the way to go.
If I'm going to spend 80K plus on a car, Ford is what comes to mind first.
Uncle Donald's tariff will take care of this commie ride..
A Chinese branded vehicle made in Mexico absofuckingloutly not. Easy pass. The only answer for me is Tacoma.
I have a contractor I have a dodge power waggon that is very very hard on fuel if I have to get a staff member to run to Home Depot they don’t have to drive some that gets 9 mph. I need a small truck like an 80s Toyota four-wheel-drive truck that size like it’s good gas mileage as most the time you’re not . 10, thousand pounds or caring 2000 pounds and weight, there is a huge market for small trucks that are for utility. Why do you think the old Toyota trucks are worth so much money but small cheap trucks that are durable companies wake up