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Automotive News & Views Buying American Cars What Does It Mean?
7263 messages, Last post on May 27, 2009 at 4:31 AM
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With parts coming from everywhere, does "Buying American" have much meaning anymore? Is quality and price the bottom line?
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"Imagine a huge/heavy 8 passenger vehicle with a V8 high HP engine with a large payload capacity" Escalade Hybrid: 202.5" x 79" x 75.9" Traverse: 205" x 78.4" x 72.8" EH: 8 passenger seating Enclave: Same Traverse: 7 EH Payload: 1339 lbs Traverse: 1444 lbs FWIW Enclave: 1631 lbs Towing capacity EH: 5600 lbs Traverse: 5200 lbs going from 14 mpg to 20 mpg (42% increase) seems easy but it is quite amazing. EH: 20/20/20 Traverse: 16/23/19 I guess I'm more impressed with how well they did with the Lambda. |
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Replying to: anythngbutgm (Dec 04, 2008 6:14 am) The slick part of the oil market and the fact that OPEC is letting the market cave in is a catch22 for the U.S. They know that drillers will discontinue at a high rate and that high prices will be right around the corner. Regards, OW |
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There is no doubt the current recession and credit crunch has been hitting Americans’ squarely in the wallet, but there appears to be at least one bit of silver lining to the economic downturn – lower gas prices. For the month of January, crude oil futures fell to just $43.67, the lowest per barrel price since January 2005. Moreover, many industry experts are predicting that crude oil could fall below $25 per barrel early next year. “We’ve got the U.S, U.K., Europe and Japan all in recession for the first time since World War II, and the oil market is reacting,” Chip Hodge, a managing director at MFC Global Investment Management in Boston, told Bloomberg. If China starts to feel the effects of a recession, prices could plummet even lower. To put $25 per barrel into perspective, crude oil hit a high of $147.27 per barrel in July, resulting in a per gallon national average record of $4.11 per gallon. At the current per barrel rate of about $44, national prices are hovering around $1.78 per gallon, meaning a drop to $25 or less could result in gas prices tumbling below a dollar per gallon. That’s good news for individual families, but a sad commentary on the current state of the world economy.
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Dec 05, 2008 4:05 am) I am all for Hybrids and full electric tech. I am sure most members here at Edmunds knows the price of oil will not stay at these levels as the economy turns. The cycles of price fluctuations are fast and burned the Big 3 BIG TIME. We all can not be blind to energy independence as a major goal in the next new economy. "We won't be fooled again!" Regards, OW |
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Replying to: bumpy (Dec 04, 2008 8:38 am) |
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Replying to: marsha7 (Dec 04, 2008 9:48 am) That is how it works. The Teamsters moved our contract date to be first every 3 years. They knew our management was weak. We were also a Co-op so it was easy to get past the board. We would get a nice raise and then they would go after the much bigger AT&T bargaining unit showing the current market wage. Most of the time it worked as we had a reputation for stealing the good techs from AT&T. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 05, 2008 7:14 am) |
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Dec 04, 2008 10:53 am) To me the Escalade is better looking than the Mercedes GL. Unless they have changed the seats in the Escalade since 2007 they are not comfortable for me. I really liked the seats in the 2006 and earlier. New ones are too hard, feel like foam on plywood. |
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Replying to: fintail (Dec 05, 2008 7:36 am)
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Replying to: fintail (Dec 05, 2008 7:36 am) It's now a US car. I thought from reading opinions here that only US brand cars had depreciation? Mercedes Deutsch ist.
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