They’re saying they’ll work with the dealer to try to get you a better deal. Instead of you doing all the back-and-forth, they handle part of the negotiation.
Honda is the car brand being talked about. The big news is that some Honda owners are hearing they may need a paid subscription for a convenience feature related to opening a garage door.
Some newer cars can connect to the internet, and the company may charge you to keep certain features working. It’s like paying for premium features in a phone app, but inside the car.
HomeLink is a feature in some cars that lets you open your garage door from a button in the car. You set it up once, and then you don’t need a separate remote.
Toyota is mentioned because they’ve done something similar—offering a connected feature for free at first, then charging you afterward. It’s an example of the broader trend.
John Deere makes big farm machines like tractors. In this story, they’re being discussed because of a legal settlement about whether independent repair shops can access the tools needed to fix that equipment.
These are computer tools used to figure out what’s wrong and how to fix it. If they’re available to more than just the dealer, independent shops can repair equipment more easily.
A class action lawsuit is when lots of people with similar complaints team up in one legal case. The settlement money can then be shared with people who were affected.
Authorized dealers are the official repair shops approved by the manufacturer. The story is saying that when independent repair is harder, people end up paying these dealers for repairs.
Independent mechanics are regular repair shops that aren’t tied to one car brand. The right-to-repair fight is partly about whether these shops can get the same diagnostic information dealers use.
Right-to-repair rules are meant to stop companies from blocking independent mechanics. They help owners pick a repair shop and still get the information and parts needed to fix the vehicle.
MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price) is the price a manufacturer recommends for a new product. The transcript contrasts MSRP with resale pricing for older equipment, implying that maintenance costs and repair access affect long-term value.
“Pre-computer” means older machines that weren’t run by as much electronics and software. Those older systems are often simpler to diagnose and repair without special manufacturer-only tools.
“Take your losses” means admitting the deal didn’t work out and moving on. In car sales, it can mean dealers end up stuck with vehicles and have to get rid of them.
Sometimes a car company will buy cars back from a dealership if they can’t sell them. It helps the dealer reduce the amount of unsold inventory they’re stuck with.
EVs are cars that run on electricity instead of gasoline. The point here is that some companies bet big on EVs, but the market wasn’t as strong as they expected.
The Volkswagen ID Buzz is an electric van from Volkswagen. They’re mentioning it as another EV that didn’t perform the way the company hoped in the market.
A stick shift is a car with a manual transmission. You have to use the clutch and shift gears yourself instead of the car doing it automatically.
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“M car” is shorthand for BMW’s M division performance models (BMW M). The speaker uses it to make a point about affordability—suggesting that pricing and incentives are being targeted toward higher-income buyers who can afford BMW M vehicles.
Pricing power means a business can charge higher prices and still sell enough to stay profitable. If customers keep buying, the company doesn’t feel pressure to lower prices.
“Inventories sitting around” means unsold vehicles are piling up at dealers or in the supply chain. When inventory builds, automakers and dealers typically need to offer incentives or price cuts to move units.
The speaker frames affordability as a major market constraint affecting who can buy vehicles and how often. When costs rise across fuel, maintenance, insurance, and vehicle prices, fewer people can justify purchasing or upgrading.
The Great Recession was a big economic crash that made it harder for people to buy things and get loans. The speaker is saying the car market feels unstable like that time.
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and this is Carage Live for Friday, April 10th with your host, me, Ray, here, hanging out in my living room,
hurt but not injured, and Zach hanging out in New York. Well, you know, like the pros say,
you got to know the difference between hurt and injury. And well, I'm just hurting, baby. I'm not
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green, 120-day supply of F-150s. You don't really want to be in the market for an F-150 in Wisconsin.
Instead, go to Minnesota. That's where dealers have some inventory that's been sitting on the
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your feedback and we appreciate it as always. And be certain when you go to Minnesota to say,
yeah, sure, you betcha, let's have some hot dish.
I don't know what to do. Yeah, sure, you betcha, let's have some hot dish. Dad, Honda,
that's where we're starting today. All right. Yes. What the F is going on over at Honda. They went
viral this week for all the wrong reasons, headlines like this. Honda drivers now have to pay a
subscription to open their garage door. What happened over at Honda, Dad? And actually,
there's been significant updates to this story. So, why did they go viral? What happened here?
And what do we actually need to know? Well, why it went viral is it appeared as if
if you wanted to be able to open your garage door, and I don't know why you wouldn't just use the
garage door opener that, I don't know, comes with the garage door. But, you know, we have all these
technologies built into cars today. What the hell was that? They're doing fire alarm testing here.
Oh, that sounds like my condo. And so anyway, we have all this technology, one's called HomeLink.
It's been around for like 30, 40 years. And you could program your garage door open into your own
button in your car and just push the button and it would open the garage.
Well, now, everything is like software. It's software. And that stuff goes behind a paywall.
And so, if you want to be able to do that, you have to subscribe to that software. Now,
the beauty of this is, they'll give you that software for free for the first 30 days,
so you can open your garage without any problems at all through the first 30 days.
And then, if you want to continue, well, you'd have to pay a subscription. Or,
you could figure out how to do it without using your smartphone. Or, you could order a mirror
from Honda that has the HomeLink button built into it. What the hell is going on in this world
today? Why is everything so damn complicated? I mean, literally 40 years ago, we were giving
this stuff away to people for free. It was a selling feature. And now, the selling feature is,
well, if you want to use the feature, you got to pay for it. Are you going to tell me at some point,
they're going to say, hey, every car has brakes? But if you'd like to stop, it's on a subscription
basis only. It's nuts. So I think it is important because the original story when it went viral
was like, hey, this is the only way that you can open your garage door. If you subscribe to open
your garage door, it is more nuanced than that. This is through the infotainment system and all
the connected on your phone. Yeah, if you want to do it that way, you now have to pay a subscription.
And the tricky part about this stat is these automakers. This is not the first time we've seen
it. Toyota is another great example of this. They give you something for free for a period of time.
They try and get you hooked on it, and then they charge you for it. Toyota got in trouble for this.
What was it last year, two years ago? They had a remote start, a complimentary one-year remote
connect is what they called it. And it was complimentary for one year in many of their vehicles.
And then it was $15 to $25 a month for you to be able to have remote start on your vehicle.
That's the challenge with this. You end up getting something for free for one way to use it,
and then they take it away from you. We've seen automakers push for subscription revenues. For
example, BMW was at the forefront of this. You wanted heated seats. Yes. You had to subscribe
for heated seats. Once we moved to Florida. Or moved to Florida, which to be clear, many of them
have backed away from this. BMW walked away from that. This is the headline in Edmunds. BMW's heated
seat subscription is dead while some others live on. Stellantis, remember when they came out that
they said they had a $20 or $30 billion annual revenue goal tied back to software sales?
We're talking about Stellantis, the manufacturer, not Apple, the software company. It is an
interesting dynamic. You can still open your garage door with that Honda. You don't have to
pay for this thing. Yes. But the way you were doing it before, now you do. That feels wrong.
It's almost as if manufacturers are like drug dealers in the sense that they give you a little
something to hook you on it. They'll give it to you for free to get you hooked. Then you have to
pay them every month so you can continue to use it. Literally, it's no different than a drug dealer
say, hey, you want to try a little crack. Okay. Hey, here have some. Then they hook you on that
stuff. The next thing you know, every dime you're making, you're paying to them. That's what this
is. This is a form of holding your customers hostage for the conveniences that you've programmed
into the car and that you've given them to get used to so that you can then charge them for it.
There's got to be a better way. There just really has to be a better way.
Very amused when you say that automakers are like drug dealers that inspires me to hop off
of the screen. Dad, we had a thoughtful contribution come here from big fan. Appreciate it. Thanks so
much, Zach. Are you fluent in manual transmission now? Bummer is only like two reasonable cars
coming to manual. The Mazda 3 hatch and the Jetta GFI. No, I still do not know how to drive
manual transmission. However, girlfriend dad, she has a Fiat A-barth and it is a manual.
Did I ever tell you that? No. Well, there's a couple of things you haven't told me.
Hey, you haven't told me you have a girlfriend. Okay. Or be that she has a Fiat A-barth,
okay. It's a manual. You know, so at least you have something to learn on.
Yeah, exactly. I do have something to learn on, something nice to learn on. All right,
so that's the Honda story. Paying for subscriptions to get access to open up your garage door.
What a time to be alive. Then another story I wanted to cover today that I think is
it's bigger. It's much bigger. Do you know what I'm going for? Which one do you think I'm going to?
You're going to a right to repair. Yes, I'm 100%. You're spot on.
We are going to talk about John Deere, y'all. We do not talk about John Deere on this channel.
This might be the first time that we're talking about John Deere. But dad, this settlement,
which my favorite line is coming up in just a second, John Deere to pay $99 million in monumental
right to repair settlement. The agricultural manufacturing giant will also make a digital
diagnostic maintenance and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.
This is a huge moment, and we are just going to hop heart on it for a second here, dad.
It agreed to pay $99 million into a fund, excuse me, for farms and individuals who
participated in a class action lawsuit, specifically that money is available to those
involved who paid John Deere authorized dealers for large equipment repairs from January 2018.
The big important thing here, dad, no admission of wrongdoing.
Of course not. Well, there is no wrongdoing.
And what's part of this? This is huge. This is a big milestone moment.
Well, what's big about this is that all the manufacturers, whether it be for agriculture
or automobiles, they have proprietary tools, proprietary software, and they don't make those
tools and that software available to independent mechanics. So you are forced to have to deal
with one of their dealers. And the old saying is, well, the less competition there is,
the higher the prices are going to be, because you only have one place to go.
Do they really have to discount the cost of their services for you? Absolutely not.
And there are states that have been on the forefront of this for automotive. Massachusetts is one
that passed a right to repair law. I don't know if it's still, if it has actually gone into effect
yet or if it's still being litigated. But all these manufacturers are holding all of us customers
hostage as to where we can go to get our cars or agricultural machinery repaired.
Or any hardware, dad, any hardware.
Well, yeah, because you need this special diagnostic equipment. You need the special
tools. I mean, I can't tell you, every time a new model would come out, whether it be for
many or when I was with Accurat. There's always special tools that are needed for those new models.
Well, the only place you can get them is from the manufacturer, and they only make them available
to the dealer. So that, A, the dealer has to pay and buy all these special tools.
And I don't know, they want to recoup that expense. So they're going to charge you.
And this is a way, I think it's a first step that will impact automotive as much as it impacts
agriculture, because it's a precedent to say it's time to give people a choice as to where
they want to get their vehicles repaired. And dad, this is monumental because the dollar amount
and obviously also how long it has been going on. And I do want to pull it in here from Turbo
Diesel, home appliances. This truly transcends what we talk about on this channel typically.
And that's why it is so important. And you're right, Massachusetts has had a strong push
for this manufacturer that comes to mind that makes it very difficult for an independent
repair shop to do work on their vehicles. Tesla, they grew like crazy. The only way you can get
a Tesla service is back through the manufacturer. That's what they want at least. And obviously
with John Deere, that's what they were doing as well to the tune of ripping off their customers
for this $100 million. What was so fascinating is you would have John Deere tractor trailers
that were 40, 50, 60 years old selling for outrageous prices like close to their original
MSRP's simply because it was so much cheaper to maintain something that was pre-computer,
pre-needing all their diagnostic software. And you could start to see a world where as things
become as ties in with our original story around Honda and software and subscriptions,
you can kind of see the same world here. Whereas more things become proprietary to the
manufacturer and the software and things like that. It just creates trouble. It just creates
trouble for owning and maintaining these vehicles. Well, the reality is, is when vehicles, whether
they be agricultural machinery, whether they be appliances, whether they be automobiles and
motor cycles, the simpler they were, the easier they were to repair. And anybody who had an
interest in learning how to do that could. And today, because all of these things are like
washers and dryers, are computers housed in these washers and dryers, automobiles,
combines. They're computers on wheels and computers are not inexpensive to maintain and repair.
And not every person can do it. But there are those out there who would like to be able to do it
for a less expensive price than what your dealer wants to charge. And so, I don't know, maybe,
maybe sometimes we're better off keeping stuff simple. I mean, there's that old saying,
kiss, keep it simple, stupid. I'm not going to sit here and say technology is wonderful. I mean,
hell, we wouldn't be in business if it wasn't for technology. We wouldn't be able to do what we do
if it wasn't for technology. But my God, it is so difficult. I mean, you know, anybody could work
on a car 50 years ago. It wasn't that hard. I mean, it was a pain in the butt, but it was,
you know, you didn't need to have a master's or a PhD in engineering to be able to work on your
vehicle. Even I changed the brakes on my Audi one time. I did have one leftover part, but the car
still stopped. But, you know, even I could do that. And so, the idea of having all this electronics
and software that is not available to everybody, I think it's time to stop. It really is.
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of the vehicles that's going to stop production would be a Volkswagen ID for this is not a surprise.
This should have happened even earlier, dad. Right now in the United States of America,
let's check it out. I'll pull it up. So is selling vehicles in the United States. For those of you
that haven't checked it out, we updated the slowest selling cars page back at courage.com.
Google search or go to courage.com slash slowest. I'm going to scroll down here. The second slowest
selling car in the United States right now is the Volkswagen ID for and I'm just going to humor
myself for a second here. I'm going to go to let's go to New Jersey. Let's see how things are
doing in your state, dad. Now we're looking at the slowest selling cars in New Jersey. Okay,
you know what? Kudos to the ID for. It's not in the top 10. Is it in the top 25?
Maybe nobody here in New Jersey is offering any for sale. Yeah, that's I'm not even seeing in
the top 55. I'm going to try it. But you know what is the slowest selling? The Ford mustad
marquee of your slowest selling car in New Jersey. Anyway, Ford, excuse me, not Ford,
Volkswagen dad halting production of the ID for can't be too surprised to hear this, can you?
Well, no, well, you can't be. I mean, we are surprised that hasn't been selling.
Yeah, the ID for has had its issues. Let's not let's not kid anybody about that. I mean,
they've just had a tremendous amount of issues. Software related as well or another case for
software. But the reality is in in the I believe it was in the last quarter.
Please. I might have been the last quarter of last year. I think nationwide, in 90 days,
they sold 248 up 248. I mean, what's the point? I just write it off now, take your losses, move
along with life, you know, and and whatever dealer still have some, you know, buy them back from
the dealer, send them to send them wherever you want to send them, send them to independent
repair shops so that they can learn how to work on them, but do whatever you want. This
so many manufacturers made so many bad bets when it came to EVs, not just in the United States,
but globally as well. You know, there is a market for EVs. It's not as it's not as robust a market
as as everybody thought it might be. This is the market day supply of the Volkswagen ID for
every single state is a strong buyers market for it, but the exception of Kentucky, New Hampshire
and Vermont. I mean, it's just an example of not selling. It's the perfect example of
green lighting a vehicle that should have never been green lit or green lighted or said okay to.
I think you're spot on and it's interesting because they obviously didn't continue to produce it here
in 2026, but it's obviously not going to be here in 2027. No, and and you know, the obviously they're
going to replace its production, not the producing many. You know, if they're only selling 248 in
a quarter, one would hope that they're not producing more than that, but it'll free up production
space and capabilities in the Chattanooga facility where where they're built. And word has it that
they're going to be looking to build more atlases. And so we'll see what happens. But yeah, this this
this was this and the ID buzz. You know, we're two perfect examples that people at Volkswagen said,
yeah, let's do it. That I don't know if this is the case or not, but whoever said yes to either one
of those shouldn't still be employed in in in my opinion, in the position to be able to say
yay or nay to what they're going to build or green light in the future.
Yeah, definitely has not worked out. Let's come back here to the chat. We've had some thoughtful
contributions first from Matthew. Thanks, Matthew. At least Zach's girlfriend knows her way around
a stick. Yes, exactly. She knows how to drive a stick shift. Not going to fall for your bait there,
Matthew. We've got here dad from Chris. Thank you for this, Chris. We appreciate it. Hey,
I'm using CarEdge Pro using the AI agent trying to close a deal and having trouble responding
to the sales manager. We are so close to closing a deal. How can I get help? Chris, I actually took
a screenshot of that sent it to our success team. Hopefully someone reaches out to you shortly,
but you can also email me directly, Zach at caredge.com. We'll make sure that we can help you
out. It's nice seeing the AI get it to the finish line. Unfortunately, you're still buying a card
from a car dealer, so you've got to take over at the very end there. Hopefully, we'll be able to
help coach you through that. And then from Rich, appreciate this, Rich. Tom, give me your humble
opinion on the Bentley EXP 100 GT. All right, give me one second. Bentley EXP 100 GT. Oh,
this is going to be cool, dad. Are you ready for this? Yes, yes. That looks cool. Oh, it does
look cool. I like that. It reminds me to a degree of when Mini did a concept vehicle of the Legera
Roadster and it has a similar look. Could you go back and show the seats? Are those special
orthopedic seats for old people like me? Do they turn outwards so you can just kind of fall into
them and then they reposition themselves inside the car? I mean, dad, it's supposed to be a fully
autonomous car that you're going to be driving around in 2035. You're going to be driven around
that, that itself. Yeah. Put me down for one. How much of a deposit do we need to put on? Is it
like all the other electric vehicles that come out? You can secure one with a $100 refundable
deposit? I don't think so, dad. I don't think so. All right, last story we're going to cover today,
pops. We've got the latest Kelly Blue Book data. The headline reads, new vehicle price increases
accelerated march as large trucks and SUVs gain share. There you go. There's your latest headline
from KBB. New car price has continued to go up in the month of March. That comes as a shock.
Here's the really good news, ladies and gentlemen. This is after every CEO and every major automobile
manufacturer stated at the beginning of the year, we know there's an affordability issue and we're
going to address it by making vehicles less affordable to less people. We're just going to
concentrate on the 15% of the population that can buy the M car and the hell with the rest of
year. There is some good news. The orange line on this chart shows you the percentage of incentives
that the manufacturers are putting on vehicles to try and sell them. It has gone up at least a
little bit from prior months. We are seeing incentives increase just a little bit.
Yes, it's not enough because the average transaction prices keep going up.
Obviously, at least it's obvious to me. Obviously, the manufacturers have really just decided
that they don't need the majority of the population to want to go and buy a new vehicle.
The majority of the population can continue to pay extra or higher prices for used vehicles
because even at a higher price point, the used vehicle still represents a better value than
that new vehicle because there's enough of a spread in dollars between the two of them.
These manufacturers are just going to continue to cater to the 13 to 15% of the population
out there that can afford to continue to buy cars and not think twice about it.
I think there were some numbers in that article. I believe the average
pricing, transaction pricing for pickup trucks was just under $65,000.
I wish it was under, Dad. It was just over $65,000, $65,964.
Okay, it was just under $66,000 by $36. As you can see, every one of these numbers
reflects an increase year over year. We know with the Trump administration rolling back
CAFE standards and emission standards, we know that that would allow these manufacturers to use
older, less expensive technologies when building these new vehicles. If they were to actually
do that, they could lower the price. My guess is at some point, they will
choose to use the older, less expensive technologies but not lower the price.
Didn't we actually just see this in another industry? I think it was like Delta's CEO came
out and said that even after gas prices, jet fuel prices come back down, they don't plan on
lowering their airfares. Giving a pricing power doesn't make sense if you're a corporation.
They have pricing power. Why would they give it up? Obviously, if there's not demand
and there are inventories sitting around, you do give up your pricing power. You do
incentivize. You do subsidize. Until then, we are starting to see some cracks in the
foundation but not enough to ultimately make them operate differently as your observation.
Apparently, 13 to 15% of the population that's old enough and wealthy enough to afford to buy
these new vehicles is a large enough number that the manufacturers can get by with it.
I've said it before. We continue to see the new car sales volume decline year over year over
year over year. The manufacturers have figured out that they're okay with that because they
can make enough money on the vehicles that they do sell that they're still making billions upon
billions of dollars selling fewer vehicles. Why should we build more vehicles that are cheaper
that don't have the same profit margin? We're doing really well now. I just think it's a conscious
decision on the decision makers at all these manufacturers that are saying, what the hell
with the commoner? We have discussed this in the past. The chasm between those who have
and those who don't or those who can and those who can't has never been greater in this country.
Most people don't have it, especially after March. Most people don't have any buying power
anymore. The price of fuel went up dramatically. The cost of automobile maintenance is up. The cost
of insurance is up. The cost of the vehicles are up. Who has any money? Which again, Dad,
why I'm so proud of some of the things we're doing the map feature to help you identify areas where
you have an oversupply inventory. You do have more leverage in negotiations to try and drive price
down and things like that. I hear you. I hear you. This is just a headline from KDD that you put
it out every month. It's a sad reminder of the current state of how unaffordable many of these
things are that, to be clear, are necessities. You need to have a vehicle to get around in many
parts of this country. Obviously, many people that tune in here to CarEdge, use our website,
use our services, they need to buy a car. Don't want to buy a car, they need to. It's a matter of
maximizing the fairness of that transaction and making sure that you're not getting taken advantage
of in an environment where you have a pickup truck cost $66,000. It's crazy.
The whole thing's crazy. It is at this point in time, I believe,
built on the flimsiest house of cars that we have seen since the Great Recession.
But, Pops, you know whose house of cars is not flimsy? Our is back at CarEdge.
So thankful for that. Let's remind everyone that if we can help you out, our website,
CarEdge.com, the sponsor, I would say, even of today's program, is CarEdge.com. We provide
a car buying service. We will contact dealers and even negotiate on your behalf. And folks,
CarEdge.com, which is linked down below, is our new beta car search. So please use the
new car search and share your feedback with us. We really, really appreciate it. Pops,
let's call it a show for today. We'll be back on Monday with more CarEdge Live. And Dad,
the plan is I'll be by your side on Tuesday. So we'll be side by side in your apartment
doing our next episode of CarEdge Live on Tuesday together. Sound good?
Oh my God, I can't wait. Oh, you checked the weather forecast. It should be good running
weather here at the Jersey Shore? It's gonna be hot. It's gonna be hot, but it'll be hot.
It's gonna be in the low 70s, for good to say. The wind is gonna be coming off the ocean. The
ocean's cold. It'll be fine. Folks, we'll be back on Monday, Dad. Glad to spend time with you. Enjoy
the afternoon, okay? You do the same. Have a great weekend, Hanson. Love you, Pops. Oh, actually, Dad.
Yes. Matthew keeping us on here. Yeah. Appreciate this, Matthew. Ray, great stuff going around the
web now about how Cash for Clunkers was just a scheme by automakers to replace reliable mechanical
cars with computer crap. Interesting. That is interesting, but I can tell you, at least at
the dealership that I was working at at that time, Cash for Clunkers, they were real honest to God
okay. And I mean, most of them were just toting. They didn't even run. So, yeah, maybe, maybe,
yeah, because, you know, if somebody's gotta be a computer savvy to work on all this stuff and
it ain't gonna be me. We're back Monday, folks. Love you, Dad. Love you too, Hanson. Have a great
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About this episode
Ray and Zach kick off with Honda’s viral “garage door subscription” controversy, explaining how HomeLink-style convenience is being gated behind connected-software paywalls after a free trial—sparking outrage and comparisons to Toyota remote-start trials and BMW heated-seat subscriptions. They then pivot to right-to-repair, highlighting John Deere’s $99M settlement and the push for independent access to diagnostic tools, arguing proprietary software keeps repair costs high. The show also covers slow-selling VW ID.4/ID. Buzz production pauses and KBB data showing new-vehicle prices rising faster than incentives, widening affordability gaps.
Today on CarEdge Live, Ray and Zach discuss the latest news from Honda, John Deere, Volkswagen and more. Tune in to learn more! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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