Punch alert for later today or tomorrow. Hint, it is not the clown horn car but the 3 yr old CR-V Hybrid. The new punch is not an exciting or exotic car, nor it is a candidate for city street stop light derby. Nevertheless it will save me from a hike in dues on this site.
@nyccarguy said:
I was looking at those. The problem is she is in NY and can't come up with the MSD (even if his dealer allows it for NY residents). She needs 15K miles per year. Once you roll everything in, the payments balloon. I'd love to get her into an XC60.
The Auto Ninjas (I’ve done three deals with them, good people). Have an XC60 Core for $586 / $586 DAS plus broker for 36/15K. Thats NJ tax so I guess a bit more for NY.
Got it. That’s definitely more than she wants to spend, but it’s good to have a baseline. One of them, either auto ninjas or auto companion, I think it’s auto companion has a really nice tool to customize your lease.
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Actually got a raise on my most recent paycheck... Recruiter called and offered a substantially higher amount of money to do the same type of work I do now, but with a reduced workload.
Actually got a raise on my most recent paycheck... Recruiter called and offered a substantially higher amount of money to do the same type of work I do now, but with a reduced workload.
Always a hard decision to move to a different employer. Good luck!
Actually got a raise on my most recent paycheck... Recruiter called and offered a substantially higher amount of money to do the same type of work I do now, but with a reduced workload.
@stickguy sorry for being vague. It’s a number the current employer can’t/won’t come close to matching because of the way they worship the budget. I decided to make a clean break and will put in my notice on Friday. Not looking forward to that after being there over a decade, but it needs to be done.
I always believe that you are the only one looking out for your interest, and don't owe them anything other than doing the job they are paying you to do, while they are paying you. I know from personal experience that as much as they like to talk about family and loyalty, as soon as an account says you are too expensive to be kept, they will show you the door without a qualm.
@nyccarguy Your sister might consider test driving an Outback. As Consumer Reports says this Subaru has a surprisingly luxurious ride, best awd system, and good reliability. Currently has good lease rates or 1.9 financing for 4 years.
And apparently 25% tariffs are going on all imported vehicles soon. I wonder how much prices in the US will go up overall? Probably at least 10% in the next few months, and maybe more. About half of the vehicles sold in the US are built in other countries. Since it takes about three years to build a new vehicle factory in the United States, it's not clear when or if this will happen. Even with a 25% tariff I still don't see how this brings factories back from Mexico. According to one article I read workers in Mexican car plants make around $3 an hour, compared to maybe an average or $30 or so in the US when including benefits.
In 2024 the US imported about 7.5 million vehicles from all countries. If (and it's a big if) these international corporations decided as a result of tariffs to move production of, say, 2.5 million of those vehicles to the US in the next few years, that might mean something like ten new factories being built in the US, since I think an average-size car factory makes around 250k or so vehicles a year.
The Toyota factory in Mississippi is one of their smaller ones, and makes about 180,000 vehicles a year.
I'm not sure, but I think most of Honda's and Toyota's factories only have two shifts. And so if they added a third shift, and went to around-the-clock production, that would be the fastest way to make more vehicles in the US.
Hyundai, KIA, and Subaru I think already work all of their US factories around the clock with three shifts.
car makers need to work on much longer lead times than whim of the day politicians. So unless they were already planning on building factories here, they quite likely will just wait for conditions to change and deal with the near future as it happens.
some smaller makes probably don't have the volumes to even support building a factory here. Porsche, any of the more niche brands.
and the real impact is going to be to the affordable cars that pretty much have to be made off shore.
....and the real impact is going to be to the affordable cars that pretty much have to be made off shore.
Yeah, that's a good point. Prices are definitely going to go up, in any case.
My Outback was made in the US. We didn't get a base model, but if we had those were about 29k + tax, which I'd say counts as an affordable vehicle these days.
But probably most the vehicles under 25k are already made in Mexico or other lower-wage countries.
Car and Bids doesn't seem to have a lot to choose from compared to BAT, so maybe a place to find a bargain? Just for fun decided on these 3 for QB to look at. I didn't go into any detail looking at the offerings. https://carsandbids.com/auctions/9XmQg1Xj/2018-audi-sq5
I actually clicked on that Escalade earlier today. Bit too miley for me.
Kind of want it, I love the short wheelbase GMT900s, and those ridiculous chrome window deflectors would easily come off. Not fond of the 22" wheels, either. I'm guessing that's a $10k-ish car that will probably go for closer to $20k because it's on BaT.
@stickguy, I saw that Mazda but didn't look at the details. The current bid surprised me but only 27K and a stick. Talk about hens teeth! There was a guy from years back who posted on these forums and had one. He was a musician. His handle will come back to me at some point.
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I actually had the pleasure of meeting him once, in person, while on a business trip to NJ. He posts infrequently here, but we're connected through FB.
100% on not being in the used market right now. That Q5 was downright crazy.
Isn’t it possible for a decent scanner to read other modules, like say the TCM, which also record mileage to double check the odometer mileage? It would seem these days that would be a necessary part of the PPI.
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I just got a raise too but a monkey could do what I do so I’m grateful they’re free with their money.😁
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We used to own a Mazda5 with the 5-speed manual. A weird vehicle for sure, but surprisingly fun to drive and functional. But then the IIHS came out saying that it performed badly in crash tests, and so we traded it in for a Honda Accord.
The new Acura ADX is made in Mexico, and the list price of the lowest-priced AWD model is about $38k. If the 25% tariffs are passed on to consumers then the list price of this model would rise to about $47,500. At that price it would be more expensive than the price of the RDX, which has a starting msrp of $46k.
Obviously it isn't possible to sell the ADX for $47.5k. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like Acura will need to either stop selling the ADX in a few months once the non-tariff supply of the ADX runs out, or they might instead spread the cost of the tariff over all of their vehicles. So perhaps the ADX will rise to $42k and the RDX, even though it's not subject to a tariff, might rise to $48k? Price increases like that will almost certainly mean that Acura sales will fall.
On the other hand, maybe with the low labor costs in Mexico the ADX is currently a very high-profit vehicle? I don't know. But if so, maybe Acura can just sacrifice most of that profit for now and just give the ADX a modest price increase of $2k or so?
I guess we'll see how it plays out.
It seems like there's a lack of understanding of how disruptive the 25% tariff on parts might be to the supply chain. I've been reading how parts and partially assembled vehicles go back and forth across the borders of Canada, US, and Mexico before they are finally assembled as vehicles in one of three countries. Some have suggested that if 25% is charged on every part every time it crosses the borders that it will disrupt this supply chain so much that it wil slow down, or even shut down, most vehicle factories in all three countries in a month or two. That seems alarmist, but if the tariffs stay we'll find out.
Of the European luxury brands Audi is the most vulnerable. Mercedes has a big factory in Alabama, and BMW has a huge factory in North Carolina, but Audi's factory is in Mexico.
We used to own a Mazda5 with the 5-speed manual. A weird vehicle for sure, but surprisingly fun to drive and functional. But then the IIHS came out saying that it performed very badly in crash tests, I mean one of their worst vehicles ever, and so we ditched it asap.
Mazda has a tendency to produce vehicles that are out of the mainstream. Last night I saw an article about a vehicle I had forgotten about, the MX-3 of the early '90s. That is the tiny sporty couple available with either a 90hp 4-banger or a 130hp 1.8L V6, apparently one of the smallest such engines ever developed. Around here I saw just a few before they converted to iron oxide.
Acura sells around 40,000 RDXs each year, and probably they had similar sales hopes for the the ADX. But still, the ADX was going to be a relatively low volume vehicle.
Honda's best-selling vehicles in the US is the CR-V with sales of 400k a year, with about half of those coming from Canada, including the one that we own. Honda also makes the CR-V in the US, and perhaps will try to shift more production to those factories, since with a 25% tariff the base model of the CR-V would cost about 40k, and that's just too much.
@nyccarguy Your sister might consider test driving an Outback. As Consumer Reports says this Subaru has a surprisingly luxurious ride, best awd system, and good reliability. Currently has good lease rates or 1.9 financing for 4 years.
And apparently 25% tariffs are going on all imported vehicles soon. I wonder how much prices in the US will go up overall? Probably at least 10% in the next few months, and maybe more. About half of the vehicles sold in the US are built in other countries. Since it takes about three years to build a new vehicle factory in the United States, it's not clear when or if this will happen. Even with a 25% tariff I still don't see how this brings factories back from Mexico. According to one article I read workers in Mexican car plants make around $3 an hour, compared to maybe an average or $30 or so in the US when including benefits.
The New York Times posted this chart today...
Where those actual completed cars that came by boat? It always makes me curious if, when folks call something imported, it physically came from another country or was also any built here by a foreign-owned entity.
Below you will find the 15 countries that caused America’s highest negative subtotal (-$181.1 billion) from buying and selling cars on global markets in 2024.
We used to own a Mazda5 with the 5-speed manual. A weird vehicle for sure, but surprisingly fun to drive and functional. But then the IIHS came out saying that it performed very badly in crash tests, I mean one of their worst vehicles ever, and so we ditched it asap.
Mazda has a tendency to produce vehicles that are out of the mainstream. Last night I saw an article about a vehicle I had forgotten about, the MX-3 of the early '90s. That is the tiny sporty couple available with either a 90hp 4-banger or a 130hp 1.8L V6, apparently one of the smallest such engines ever developed. Around here I saw just a few before they converted to iron oxide.
We were in Puerto Rico in 1992, and these were ubiquitous.
100% on not being in the used market right now. That Q5 was downright crazy.
Isn’t it possible for a decent scanner to read other modules, like say the TCM, which also record mileage to double check the odometer mileage? It would seem these days that would be a necessary part of the PPI.
I would think validating dashboard miles to TCM miles would be SOP for a Used Car Manager when taking in new auction inventory or assessing an on site customers trade.
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@stickguy said:
I always believe that you are the only one looking out for your interest, and don't owe them anything other than doing the job they are paying you to do, while they are paying you. I know from personal experience that as much as they like to talk about family and loyalty, as soon as an account says you are too expensive to be kept, they will show you the door without a qualm.
So true. Ask me why. No, don't. I
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If the tariffs happen BMW might be in a better position than some. Last year BMW sold about 370,000 vehicles in the US. BMW assembled at its South Carolina plant about 400,000 vehicles, about 60% of which were exported. No doubt it would be a production changeover nightmare, but theoretically, maybe in a year or so, most of the production at the plant could be reoriented to what the US market buys, and German factories could take over supplying vehicles for other countries around the world.
I think y'all are forgetting that, according to the leading economist in his own mind, consumers don't pay for tariffs. The exporting countries pay them. My barber raised his rates 25% since my last visit; are there now hair tariffs? If so, why would I pay when I'm quite folically challenged; I only go to the barber to give him a break from hard work and a laugh.
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"Trump’s Tariffs Will Raise Car Prices, but It’s Too Soon to Know When
Neal E. Boudette By Neal E. Boudette March 27, 2025
...Auto analysts estimate that the tariffs will add $4,000 or more to the prices of many new vehicles that are assembled outside the United States. For some high-end models, such as fully loaded pickup trucks, prices could rise $10,000 or more....
General Motors makes its Chevrolet Blazer in Mexico with American engines. Conversely, Ford Motor makes pickup trucks in U.S. plants with engines made in Windsor, Ontario. Under the executive order that Mr. Trump signed on Wednesday, the value of the G.M. engine has to be deducted before the tariff on Mexican-made Blazers is calculated. And Ford is supposed to pay a 25 percent tariff for every engine it brings in from Ontario...
In the last several weeks, Ford has stockpiled Windsor-made engines in U.S. warehouses to build up a supply that was not subject to tariffs...
The competitive landscape could play a role in what course automakers choose. The Ford Escape, for example, is made in Louisville, Ky., and is not subject to tariffs. It competes with models that will be tariffed — such as the Toyota RAV4, which is assembled in Canada, and the Chevrolet Equinox, which is made in Mexico and Canada. If Toyota and G.M. raise prices on the RAV4 and Equinox to cover the impact of the tariffs, they could lose customers to Ford...
Affordable models, like the Nissan Sentra, are assembled in Mexico, where workers make a lot less than their counterparts in the Midwest. Those low labor costs help make it possible for automakers to sell those cars in the United States for a profit.
“In most cases, the manufacturers of these models will be in positions where they will no longer be viable products,” Mr. Fiorani said."
A more accurate statement regarding Ford trucks is some engines are manufactured in Windsor, Ontario. It looks like the 5.0 and 7.3 V8's are made there, each at their own plant.
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Got it. That’s definitely more than she wants to spend, but it’s good to have a baseline. One of them, either auto ninjas or auto companion, I think it’s auto companion has a really nice tool to customize your lease.
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For someone on a tight budget it seems more reasonable to shop in the mainstream section instead of the euro aisle!
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Have them call me. I’d be interested in that job profile.
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@stickguy sorry for being vague. It’s a number the current employer can’t/won’t come close to matching because of the way they worship the budget. I decided to make a clean break and will put in my notice on Friday. Not looking forward to that after being there over a decade, but it needs to be done.
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And apparently 25% tariffs are going on all imported vehicles soon. I wonder how much prices in the US will go up overall? Probably at least 10% in the next few months, and maybe more. About half of the vehicles sold in the US are built in other countries. Since it takes about three years to build a new vehicle factory in the United States, it's not clear when or if this will happen. Even with a 25% tariff I still don't see how this brings factories back from Mexico. According to one article I read workers in Mexican car plants make around $3 an hour, compared to maybe an average or $30 or so in the US when including benefits.
The New York Times posted this chart today...
No one else can see it either.. 🤔
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The Toyota factory in Mississippi is one of their smaller ones, and makes about 180,000 vehicles a year.
https://pressroom.toyota.com/facility/toyota-motor-manufacturing-mississippi/
The Toyota factory in Kentucky is their largest, and makes about 430,000 vehicles a year.
https://pressroom.toyota.com/facility/toyota-motor-manufacturing-kentucky/
The KY plant has about 9400 employees.
I'm not sure, but I think most of Honda's and Toyota's factories only have two shifts. And so if they added a third shift, and went to around-the-clock production, that would be the fastest way to make more vehicles in the US.
Hyundai, KIA, and Subaru I think already work all of their US factories around the clock with three shifts.
He has experience with the brand and they should be reasonably priced. Umm NO.
some smaller makes probably don't have the volumes to even support building a factory here. Porsche, any of the more niche brands.
and the real impact is going to be to the affordable cars that pretty much have to be made off shore.
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My Outback was made in the US. We didn't get a base model, but if we had those were about 29k + tax, which I'd say counts as an affordable vehicle these days.
But probably most the vehicles under 25k are already made in Mexico or other lower-wage countries.
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Just for fun decided on these 3 for QB to look at.
I didn't go into any detail looking at the offerings.
https://carsandbids.com/auctions/9XmQg1Xj/2018-audi-sq5
https://carsandbids.com/auctions/36ebZxZP/1999-mercedes-benz-g500
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@corvette,
There is a last gen 2 door big Blazer for sale on C&B too.
https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3gnWOOWo/2006-mazda5-sport
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I saw that Mazda but didn't look at the details.
The current bid surprised me but only 27K and a stick.
Talk about hens teeth!
There was a guy from years back who posted on these forums and had one.
He was a musician. His handle will come back to me at some point.
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@fezo !
I love that Escalade and the Mazda5. I need more space.
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Obviously it isn't possible to sell the ADX for $47.5k. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like Acura will need to either stop selling the ADX in a few months once the non-tariff supply of the ADX runs out, or they might instead spread the cost of the tariff over all of their vehicles. So perhaps the ADX will rise to $42k and the RDX, even though it's not subject to a tariff, might rise to $48k? Price increases like that will almost certainly mean that Acura sales will fall.
On the other hand, maybe with the low labor costs in Mexico the ADX is currently a very high-profit vehicle? I don't know. But if so, maybe Acura can just sacrifice most of that profit for now and just give the ADX a modest price increase of $2k or so?
I guess we'll see how it plays out.
It seems like there's a lack of understanding of how disruptive the 25% tariff on parts might be to the supply chain. I've been reading how parts and partially assembled vehicles go back and forth across the borders of Canada, US, and Mexico before they are finally assembled as vehicles in one of three countries. Some have suggested that if 25% is charged on every part every time it crosses the borders that it will disrupt this supply chain so much that it wil slow down, or even shut down, most vehicle factories in all three countries in a month or two. That seems alarmist, but if the tariffs stay we'll find out.
Of the European luxury brands Audi is the most vulnerable. Mercedes has a big factory in Alabama, and BMW has a huge factory in North Carolina, but Audi's factory is in Mexico.
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Honda's best-selling vehicles in the US is the CR-V with sales of 400k a year, with about half of those coming from Canada, including the one that we own. Honda also makes the CR-V in the US, and perhaps will try to shift more production to those factories, since with a 25% tariff the base model of the CR-V would cost about 40k, and that's just too much.
This article is interesting in that it shows net deficit by country. I do have to wonder what cars we are importing from some lower on the list: https://www.worldstopexports.com/us-imported-cars-by-supplier-countries/
Below you will find the 15 countries that caused America’s highest negative subtotal (-$181.1 billion) from buying and selling cars on global markets in 2024.
Mexico: -US$45.4 billion (up 11.9% from 2023)
Japan: -$39.9 billion (up 0.6%)
South Korea: -$35.9 billion (up 25.6%)
Germany: -$17.7 billion (up 18.4%)
Canada: -$12.9 billion (down -32.9%)
United Kingdom: -$8.8 billion (up 54.2%)
Slovakia: -$6.3 billion (down -3.3%)
Italy: -$3.85 billion (down -22.3%)
Sweden: -$3.82 billion (up 0.4%)
South Africa: -$2 billion (up 27.3%)
Austria: -$1.79 billion (down -10.1%)
Hungary: -$1.75 billion (down -0.3%)
France: -$468.1 million (up 641.1%)
Thailand: -$373.8 million (up 80.2%)
Vietnam: -$156.2 million (up 161.6%)
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I would think validating dashboard miles to TCM miles would be SOP for a Used Car Manager when taking in new auction inventory or assessing an on site customers trade.
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So true. Ask me why. No, don't. I
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That can be best explained by a guy who owned a circus over a hundred years ago. Some things never change.
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If the tariffs happen BMW might be in a better position than some. Last year BMW sold about 370,000 vehicles in the US. BMW assembled at its South Carolina plant about 400,000 vehicles, about 60% of which were exported. No doubt it would be a production changeover nightmare, but theoretically, maybe in a year or so, most of the production at the plant could be reoriented to what the US market buys, and German factories could take over supplying vehicles for other countries around the world.
My barber raised his rates 25% since my last visit; are there now hair tariffs? If so, why would I pay when I'm quite folically challenged; I only go to the barber to give him a break from hard work and a laugh.
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"Trump’s Tariffs Will Raise Car Prices, but It’s Too Soon to Know When
Neal E. Boudette
By Neal E. Boudette
March 27, 2025
...Auto analysts estimate that the tariffs will add $4,000 or more to the prices of many new vehicles that are assembled outside the United States. For some high-end models, such as fully loaded pickup trucks, prices could rise $10,000 or more....
General Motors makes its Chevrolet Blazer in Mexico with American engines. Conversely, Ford Motor makes pickup trucks in U.S. plants with engines made in Windsor, Ontario. Under the executive order that Mr. Trump signed on Wednesday, the value of the G.M. engine has to be deducted before the tariff on Mexican-made Blazers is calculated. And Ford is supposed to pay a 25 percent tariff for every engine it brings in from Ontario...
In the last several weeks, Ford has stockpiled Windsor-made engines in U.S. warehouses to build up a supply that was not subject to tariffs...
The competitive landscape could play a role in what course automakers choose. The Ford Escape, for example, is made in Louisville, Ky., and is not subject to tariffs. It competes with models that will be tariffed — such as the Toyota RAV4, which is assembled in Canada, and the Chevrolet Equinox, which is made in Mexico and Canada. If Toyota and G.M. raise prices on the RAV4 and Equinox to cover the impact of the tariffs, they could lose customers to Ford...
Affordable models, like the Nissan Sentra, are assembled in Mexico, where workers make a lot less than their counterparts in the Midwest. Those low labor costs help make it possible for automakers to sell those cars in the United States for a profit.
“In most cases, the manufacturers of these models will be in positions where they will no longer be viable products,” Mr. Fiorani said."
While they may compete in the same segment, I seriously doubt a Toyota shopper will pivot to Ford based only on price.
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It looks like the 5.0 and 7.3 V8's are made there, each at their own plant.