Automakers Are Raising Prices Even Though Customers Can't Afford Their Cars | Episode 916

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Dad, the story I wanted to cover this morning

are price increases for new vehicles

even though customers are out there saying,

eh, I don't think we can afford these things.

That being said, we did get August sales data

and it is surprisingly robust.

So we're going to start here, Dad.

First things first, Subaru.

Been raising prices like crazy.

2026 Subaru Forester Wilderness price increase

is $2,100.

Nissan's also increasing the price of the kicks.

Lincoln Navigator, however, Dad,

year-over-year getting a price decline.

The Dodge Charger EV getting a price increase as well.

The Daytona getting a price decrease.

So you've got a little bit of a mix here,

although if I go to page two,

Audi has increased pricing of their vehicles.

Chevy increased in the pricing of their Equinox EV.

There are many, many, many vehicles, Dad.

Obviously the Toyota vehicles,

like we've covered in the past,

not going up that much.

Many vehicles in the new 26 model year

seeing their prices go up significantly,

even though customers, at least the folks we talk to,

say they can't afford it.

What's going on here?

How are they doing these price increases?

But people say they can't afford them,

but sales are actually up.

It doesn't make sense.

It does if you realize

who they're trying to sell cars to.

You have heard me say this before

and I will say it yet again.

There is a huge chasm between the haves and the have-nots

and your automobile manufacturers today

are only concerned with the haves

and they could care less about the have-nots.

What's available for the have-nots

will be Robo Taxis in major metropolitan areas,

Uber and Lyft, and otherwise,

the well-heeled customers that are out there

that are still buying cars

and helping to grow the automotive market

will just continue to do that.

They will continue to buy and shop

as if there is nothing wrong

when obviously the vast majority,

say 83 to 85% of the population

feels like they can't participate.

It is, it is a divided country in many, many ways,

but financially when it comes to automobiles,

these manufacturers are only concerned with those who have

and could care less about those who have not.

We're just starting to get the August data, Dad,

for sales that happened last month

and it is interesting to see here.

Ford sales are up, Hyundai Genesis sales are up,

Kia sales were up, Mazda sales were up actually,

or excuse me, these sales are up

for the first eight months of the year,

but when we look on the month of Mazda sales

were actually down year over year for the month of May,

but for the most part, Dad,

it's actually a very rosy picture,

especially when you look at this year compared to last.

Like these automakers for the year

are selling more cars on average.

These three reporting automakers

are up 7.7% in terms of sales year over year

for the first eight months of this year.

So it's hard for me to reconcile what you're saying,

which is like, sure, there's the haves and the have nots,

the haves can afford to buy and lease cars,

the have nots are driving around

and there's robo taxis, ubers and lifts.

These automakers have all for the most part

gone up market.

Again, I just referenced some of the upcoming price increases

with the new model year changeover,

yet their sales are still going up.

We've been saying this forever

that we would expect sales to go down.

And yes, when you do look just at August,

Mazda sales were down 7.6% year over year,

but still for the whole year, they're up 3.5%.

So it's hard for me to reconcile

what you and I have been talking about for so long,

which is eventually the well runs dry.

There's not enough well-healed customers

to sustain this industry,

but the automakers just keep proving us wrong.

Well, that's because there's enough people

in the 15% of the population

that can afford to buy a new car

that 15% of the population is large enough

to sustain the industry.

The key words that you said before

is that many of these manufacturers have gone up market.

One of the things we talked about yesterday with Mazda,

where they have intentionally increased the vehicles

for sale in the range of the CX-50, CX-70 and CX-90,

because well, those have greater profit margins

for both the dealer and Mazda manufacturing.

And well, they need those profit margins

to help offset added costs that they have incurred today.

So what seems to be hard to reconcile isn't in my mind.

I think if you did a man on the street interview,

you would find that many, many, many, many people

are very content either with the car that they already have

or with utilizing public transportation

or other forms of transportation to get around.

I'm just, that 15% of the population

is substantial enough to allow the automobile manufacturers

to expect to sell somewhere in the neighborhood

16 million new vehicles this year.

Is that a big deal?

Won't 16 million new vehicles?

Well, yeah, they sold about,

well, 16 million new vehicles the year before.

And well, the year before, I mean, the number of sales

is relatively stagnant over the last 50 years.

The population has not remained stagnant

over the last 50 years.

So all that indicates to me

is that the manufacturers understand

there's only a small percentage of the population

that can actually afford to buy their new cars.

And they are just catering to them.

And those who can't, those who find it more difficult,

they're gonna have to do something other

than buy a new car.

And so when you go back that 50 years

and you see what was being sold new car-wise

50 years ago and what's being sold new car-wise this year,

it is evident to me.

Just, you know, it's as plain as day

that what manufacturers consider to be well-healed customers

and well-healed customers to manufacturers

might be $100,000 and above income levels.

Sure.

That's enough, that's enough.

Now we are seeing, dad, relatively high incentives,

although they're actually down a little bit month over month,

but up just to touch $38 year over year.

So manufacturers are maybe feeling a little bit of pressure.

That's a bit of a stretch.

Incentives average $3,105 in August,

down $7 from July, up $38 year over year.

So like that's another thing I look at here

to maybe, you know, counterbalance what you're saying,

which is, okay, they're only trying to accommodate

those that make six figures or more.

But when we see incentives go up, that's usually, you know,

because the vehicles aren't selling,

they have to lower the prices.

But we used to see incentives significantly higher

than this, way over $3,000, $4,000, $5,000, $6,000.

So unfortunately it's like flat,

which is better than down, but it's not up,

which is what we would need to see.

That would really indicate, okay,

there's some weakness in the market,

manufacturers are having to step up.

They are on EVs, which is a totally different story,

but when it comes to overall,

incentives are kind of flat, unfortunately.

I think incentives are kind of flat.

Sales so far in the June, July, August timeframe

are down somewhat compared to the first quarter of the year

or the second quarter of the year.

But they are not as down as what many pundits

had predicted it would be.

I just think that that speaks volumes

about those who can and those who can seem to.

Regardless of the payments being

the average new car payment today

being $750 a month, regardless of the fact

that almost 20% of all new loans for new vehicles today

are for 84 months or more,

regardless of those factors,

forgetting the fact that insurance

has gone up dramatically, maintenance has gone up.

Regardless of all that, the people who have money

feels if they can still participate.

The people that have less money

are struggling to participate.

It has never been more evident to me

that they're basically two Americas,

one who can afford to buy goods and services

and the other who struggles to buy goods and services.

And that's exacerbated here in the auto industry

when you're talking about the average transaction price

of new cars close to 50 grand

and average transaction price for used cars

north of $25,000 both have gone up significantly

over the past few years.

Yes, so it is just,

it's a microcosm of what this country has become.

And for those of us, and I will include myself

as part of those of us who can afford these things,

it's, you know, for us, it's okay.

So things are a little more expensive

but we can still afford things.

For most of the people in this country, it is,

my God, things are more expensive.

We don't know how we're gonna be able

to put enough food on the table

or be able to pay the rent to keep a roof over our heads.

It is really two Americas.

And, you know, it's unfortunate

but I feel okay because I'm in that part of America

that's surviving nicely at the moment.

Evidently, Pops, you've got your lease

but you obviously chose a Mazda CX-30.

You're leasing it, it's under $350 a month

that you're spending.

$374, it's under $400.

Yeah, I mean people say, well, how can you get it?

It was pretty easy, you know, to get a vehicle

under $400 a month because I didn't need to be

to have the biggest, most extravagant,

most luxurious vehicle out there.

You know, I got what I needed.

You know how I joke and I say,

my Mazda CX-30 is basically like a Nissan XTERRA

in the sense that it's got everything I need

and nothing I don't.

And for those of you old enough

to remember the Nissan XTERRA,

their tagline was, it's got everything you need,

nothing you don't.

And you know, sometimes in life,

you should just be willing to get by with what you need

and not what you don't.

I hear you loud and clear

and the fact that we see automakers continue

to increase their prices, their MSRPs,

I think we'll just continue

to put more pressure on this market.

And eventually, who knows, I've been saying this

for years, maybe I'm wrong, maybe we're wrong.

Be thrilled, it would be humbled if we're wrong.

That being said, eventually you're going to ostracize

so many people that want to buy vehicles from you

that eventually you're going to need to cater to them again.

You would expect we would see that, but it hasn't happened.

You would think and you know,

do I like admitting that we've been wrong?

Absolutely, I hate to admit that,

but it's obvious at this point in time,

after the last four or five years

that as difficult as it has been

for the vast majority of Americans,

the manufacturers have honed in

on the people who can do things

and they are content to just sell cars to those people.

Now, at some point in the future,

could we be proven right?

I don't know, maybe I'll be alive at that time.

I don't know.

So it's just, it would seem it stands

the reason that something has to change, saying that,

and then, but they've proven over the last four or five years,

it don't, and that's not correct English

and I apologize for that, but you know,

it's obvious that it doesn't seem to have to change.

Yeah, let's jump to the chat, Dad.

We've had some really thoughtful contributions

coming from Mark, thank you.

Thank you, Mark.

As of September 2025, Tesla Q2 sales deliveries,

384,122 vehicles, production 410,244 vehicles,

inventory low and depleting Model Y L sold out

for September long range, maybe sold out for September.

I feel like Tesla has done really well

with some of their vehicles and really poorly obviously

with like the Cybertruck drones.

The Cybertruck, yeah, the Cybertruck did not turn out

to be the vehicle that they thought it was going to be

as far as sales volume.

But has Tesla done a good job of creating a market

for their other vehicles?

They have, you know, when you consider the fact

that sedans are a dying breed in this country,

and well, you know, I'm pretty sure a lot

of those Teslas are sedans.

So apparently there is a market if you're marketing them

correctly if you've created an interest in them.

So, yeah, give Tesla their flowers for, you know,

trying to maintain their space in the market.

You know, obviously their percentages are down

as far as the percentage of the market that they own.

That's declined dramatically,

but that's because there's so many more players

in the EV space.

Yeah, let's come here from Andrew.

Thank you, Andrew, for the kind contribution.

One of the complaints, excuse me,

I hear from the truck community

as trucks now are only luxury trims, high cost.

Nothing wrong with a luxury trim,

but give us a base trim for strictly work vehicles

for less money.

This is another thing that we've seen the automakers

do, so not only do we have MSRPs going up model year

over model year, we also have

what we've called trim flation.

Yes.

Just getting rid of the entry level options

and producing fewer of them.

We saw this actually to a degree yesterday, Dad,

with Mazda.

It's not only trim flation, it's just model deflation.

Like they're making, that was the big story yesterday.

They're producing fewer of their entry level options

and more of their more expensive vehicles.

So yeah, I think Andrew's spot on, Dad,

you want to go out there and buy a new car.

Good luck finding base level things,

entry level things within any model

or maker model category.

These manufacturers have made the strategic decision

to only make Platinum's, King Ranch's, you know.

What was the Ram one, Tungsten, Tungsten trim?

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When you look at some of the Cadillacs

and the Yukon's and all the big ASSUVs,

and you look at the price points, okay?

And the price points are like $80,000 and above

and they sell.

Okay, that shows you right there

that they are just catering to that one group

of the population.

And it's that one group that can afford

those luxury trucks and those luxury SUVs.

And they are uninterested in buying

any of those vehicles if they are not fully equipped

and the ultimate in luxury.

So it just reinforces what we said earlier

in the program that the manufacturers have realized

who their buyers are.

And they are catering to the buyers.

We know when you look at sales stats,

we know that the lower priced, less well-equipped vehicles

sell slower than the higher priced, higher equipped vehicles.

So I know from when I was still in retail automotive

that you didn't carry a lot of the entry level vehicles.

And when you did, oftentimes they sat

because people always seem to want more

than what it is they really need.

One of the things that they taught us early in selling.

And I would recommend this to customers out there.

One of the things that was taught to salespeople

was always start a customer on the least expensive

vehicle you have and let them say,

no, I need more equipment and they will walk themselves up

to the more expensive models

because they don't wanna do without.

And what they're gonna do without are things

that they probably aren't gonna utilize anyway.

And I would suggest for a customer out there

that that's how you should start.

Start at the lowest possible end of the spectrum

and say, yeah, I think I can get by with,

you know, a modest amount of accessories in the vehicle.

But most Americans we want more than we need.

And for whatever reason, maybe it's to impress

our neighbors, I don't know.

But for whatever reason, we are willing to spend more

for things that we don't really need

because, well, it speaks volumes about us and who we are.

A little bit of a live experiment

that I'm over here on the Car Edge Car Search.

And what I wanna show everyone is

when you actually use the Car Edge Car Search,

there's this little blurb that pops up at the top.

And I wanna read this really quickly.

Yes.

In 2025, it's more important than ever before

to keep up with car price trends as the market changes.

In Scottsdale, Arizona, the average used car sells

for $33,355 while the average new car sells

for $61,286.

Ooh.

And I'm just looking now, I put in Hyundai new,

$55,900 MSRP on an IONIQ 5.

It's the limited trim.

Next to though, so here's a good moment,

an SCL trim Hyundai Elantra with a $25,000 MSRP,

let's keep scrolling down, $51,048,000, $55,900,

$74 freaking $1,000 for a Hyundai, Dad.

There is something wrong in the world

when there's a $74,000 Hyundai.

I'm sorry, there just is.

You shouldn't be able to have Hyundai

and $74,000 in the same sentence.

You just shouldn't, in my opinion.

This to be clear is also not scripted, like this is live.

I just put in my old zip code

where I grew up, 85254.

Let's keep scrolling down here, $58,000, $43,000, $56,000,

$33,000, so here we go.

We've got a Tucson at the SCL trim

and I added $6,000, $47,000, $57,000.

I mean, $68,000 for a Hyundai.

This is folks, I mean, here we go finally,

bottom of the page of two venues under $25,000, $26,000.

This is just an example, just put in Hyundai, let's do,

I don't know, you wanna go somewhere else

in the country, Dad, where you wanna go?

Well, you know, Scottsdale's obviously pretty well-heeled

and so apparently the prices of cars are,

remind us of that.

Go to a place like Tucson, Arizona,

which realistically is not quite as wealthy an area

as say Scottsdale might be.

All right, so give me a second, I just chose,

I got Veil, Veil, Arizona, Dad, down there near Tucson,

but look at this, the average vehicle transaction prices

are similar, but let's scroll down, here we go.

$25,000, $24,000, $25,000, $24,000, $25,000.

Yay, yay, this is what I would expect to see.

And then obviously a couple here in the 40s and 50s,

but this is more what I would expect to see, Dad,

when I search for a Hyundai.

Now do, I don't know, where do you wanna go?

Do you wanna go to the middle of the country, Dallas, Texas?

Sure, let's go to Dallas, give me one second.

Let me get a zip code here.

You get a zip code, I'll have a zip.

You get a zip, I'll get a zip.

All right, Copel, Texas.

I think that's pretty close to Dallas, let's see.

I'll take your word for it.

One second, we can all double check together.

Come join me over on Google Maps, Copel.

Yeah, man, it's just a suburb of Dallas.

There's Dallas, there's Copel.

That's quite a ways from, but that's okay, you.

Okay, you wanna get closer to Dallas, we'll get closer.

Yeah, let's get closer to Dallas.

All right, how about Highland Park, this area?

Oh yeah, Highland Park.

I need a zip code, folks, I need a zip code.

What's the zip code of Highland Park, Texas?

Highland Park, zip code, bear with me.

Okay, here we go, ready?

Yes.

Come back over here.

There we go, now we're in Dallas, Texas.

Let's just start with these stats up here at the top.

The average used car in Dallas, Texas right now

is selling for $34,861.

The average new car in Dallas, Texas right now,

which must be inflated by truck prices, must be $64,915.

There's a 153 days supply of new cars

and a 174 days supply of used cars

in Dallas, Texas right now, let's scroll down.

Santa Fe calligraphy, this is gonna be your highest trim level.

XRT, not one of your lowest trim levels.

Price points, Dad, for Hyundai here,

seeming fairly reasonable.

I haven't seen anything of this range yet.

The fact that new vehicle average transaction prices

for both new and used are higher in the Dallas area

than Scottsdale is pretty impressive.

Here's what I wanna do though,

I wanna go to Ford really quickly

and I anticipate seeing a lot of expensive pickup trucks,

$60,000 expensive, $47,000 not that expensive,

$32,000 for an escape,

that's a great price, Maverick at under 40.

I mean, Dad, these prices actually

are fairly surprising to me,

I would anticipate seeing higher, if I'm being honest.

Yeah, and you know what you might find there,

that those lower priced ones

don't sell as quickly as the much higher priced ones.

That's the dichotomy of all this,

that's the challenge of all this

is like the higher priced stuff

is actually flying off the shelves.

Yes.

Justifying the behavior of the automakers

to the point we started the show on,

which is the raising prices for the new model year

and then the cheaper stuff, the less equipped stuff,

even though people are asking for it,

they're not buying it.

So it's just confounding, man, absolutely confounding.

It is, it is something that for the life of me,

I don't understand and I think I prove that

to the listening public on a daily basis.

Let's come here down from Bruce.

Thank you, Bruce.

Hello, y'all.

I just wrapped up negotiating out the door price

on Toyota Tacoma Limited at $52,000,

which is basically the invoice price.

Thanks so much for all your advice and training.

Absolutely love that, Bruce.

Thank you so much for sharing that.

Yeah.

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So really good stuff and congratulations to Bruce.

Yeah.

Job well done.

Dad, I had one more story I wanted to cover.

That being said, Rich is getting our attention here

for a moment.

We appreciate the kind contribution, Rich.

Thank you, Rich.

Pops, I know you sold, I know you know your cars,

but did you know about this one?

The 1939 gram shark nose.

I have nuclear, I'm gonna Google it, but.

Well, there'd be no reason for you to know

and I can honestly say there was no reason for me to know.

And Rich, let me say this.

I don't really know a lot about cars.

You know, here I am, I'm a car guy.

I've owned a lot of cars.

I've appraised a lot of cars.

I've driven a lot of cars.

And for the most part, I hate cars.

Cars were means to an end for me.

That's how I made my living.

But it didn't mean that I, I was so unenamored with cars

that when there were auto shows,

nobody would fight more than I would

not to have to go to one.

You know, I walked around cars in a showroom every day.

I didn't need to go to a big convention center

to walk around more cars on my time off.

I could care less about most cars.

What I care about is the pricing of automobiles

and how to make it easier for people

to get a reasonable deal when they're trying to buy one

because the way the system is set up,

it pretty much means that you ain't gonna get a good deal

because, well, you don't know what a good deal is

and you don't know what all the tricks of the trade are

at the dealerships that they utilize to see to it

that they maximize their profits

instead of minimizing them.

Yeah, so passionate about helping y'all

but not making the most of it.

You know, the cars, there is only one car

that I have ever driven that I was so enamored with

that I would really overpay if I had enough money

that I would really overpay for to get.

And that was the Audi RS6 Avant, I believe it was.

That was like, just to me,

the most amazing automobile in the way it rode,

the way it handled, and just everything about it.

But for the most part, I really could care less.

Pops, we talked about it a little bit yesterday,

some of these automakers who are writing off

to their decision to have produced electric vehicles

and now realizing it's not going to work.

I don't know if you saw this.

Now, Pulsar takes $739 million hit

on Dauer Outlook for electric crossover.

They're writing off the Pulsar 3 crossover.

Wow.

And it's going to cost them $739 million

is what they're writing down here.

Wow, I did not see that.

And, you know, is the reason for that

because sales are somewhat flat for EVs in North America

or is it because sales for EVs are somewhat flat globally?

Or that there's just so much competition

with EVs out there today that it's harder and harder

for these manufacturers who are building EVs

to be able to make it a profitable venture.

I don't know.

I know I read today that EVs are going to be

I read today were, you know, Acura and Honda,

they're going to go in more into hybrid vehicles

as opposed to full battery electric vehicles

as they put it as a bridge to get us to EVs, you know.

And personally, I've been trying to help build that bridge

probably for four or five years now saying,

I don't think you can take a substantial enough

of the buyers out there from ICE

to directly to EV in the numbers that you need

and that in order to get people acquainted with the idea

and to become okay with the idea,

you need to build that bridge.

And in my mind, that bridge was hybrids

and plug-in hybrids.

To get people there.

And so many of these manufacturers

are looking at that today and going,

man, we should have done something along the lines

that Toyota had been doing

as opposed to what we had been doing.

There's also a story this morning, Dad,

breaking from General Motors,

their stopping production of the GMC Hummer EV

in Cadillac Escalade IQ.

Wow.

That starts started yesterday.

Laboration set to restart on October 6th.

360 workers affected.

GM says it's a standard move

to quote align production with demand.

So there's another example of electric vehicles

that were being produced

that are now being paused for at least a month

from General Motors

because there's not the demand to sustain it.

So Polestar, previously Volvo,

Polestar writing down a $739 million loss

in General Motors pivoting away

from producing the Cadillac IQ

and the Hummer GMC EV.

So really interesting stuff there

when it comes to turn in a ship

that was headed in one direction,

turned it in another into your point Toyota

looks like the smartest person in the room

because they didn't go all in on electric vehicles.

And that's the one that they did,

the wheels fell off anyway.

So it was not the deal.

Yeah.

God, just the wheels on the EVs just fall off.

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that was the recall that they had for the BMW.

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May I say you sound a little nasally, young man.

I am a little nasally, a little flammie.

I don't know what's going on, but I feel good.

Okay, well, as long as you feel good,

then maybe the cold that you're getting won't feel as bad

when it really catches on fully.

Because it sounds like you're getting a cold.

I've got to have marathon in 11 days.

So as long as I'm healthy for that,

as long as I'm healthy for that.

Define healthy.

I want to run a personal best.

I'm trying to run in 90 minutes,

so I need to be care again.

I can't wait.

Yeah.

I don't want to be there for it, but I can't wait.

I've got a factor coming home the day before.

Exactly.

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I love you.

Enjoy the afternoon.

You know, I see it from New York tomorrow.

Yeah, I love you as well.

Have a safe train travels to New York.

I believe you're taking the Ocella today.

I am.

Yeah, 150, I think, is my train.

Well, you keep me posted

as to how the new...

I'm not on one of the new trains.

I'm sorry.

They were so expensive to get on one of the new trains,

so I just old train.

Well, yeah, old train's good enough.

Yeah, no, I get it.

Hopefully, I'm on one of the new trains.

We'll find out when I come down to DC next Tuesday.

Can't wait.

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Love you too.

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