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It's noon here in Ventner City, New Jersey and our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
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And this is Car Agile Live for Thursday, September 18th with your hosts, me, Ray, here in
01:38
my condo in Ventner City, New Jersey, and Zach, dreamin' of the Red Rocks in Vegas.
01:44
But unfortunately for him, he's still in his office in Washington, D.C.
01:49
How are you today, Hanson?
01:51
I'm going to be out there though in two weeks.
01:53
I don't think I'm going to be able to do any climbing, but I've got a buddy's bachelor
01:56
party in Vegas, so that'll be fun for a weekend.
01:59
But yeah, I don't think I'll be able to go climb the Red Rocks with such a bummer.
02:02
But anyway, folks, maybe they should change the venue of the bachelor party.
02:10
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What a cool moment this morning to have seen that go out.
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Really huge thanks to them.
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But Dad, the big story this morning.
02:42
Well, no, the big story is I didn't even know that piece aired.
02:49
And I started getting texts from friends of mine who live here in South Jersey and apparently
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watch Action News at four o'clock in the afternoon, going, wow, that AI, the agent
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Wow, I just saw you and Zach on the action.
03:07
So that's the big story, buddy.
03:12
Going up to New York to do an in-person interview with one of the news affiliates up there next
03:17
So yeah, more press coming, which we love to see.
03:19
Let's start here, though, Dad, Nissan WTF.
03:23
Two big stories this morning from Nissan First, year sales and marketing chief Vinay
03:28
Shahani, resigns after less than two years on the job and, quite frankly, the bigger
03:34
story I think, Nissan getting rid of the Nissan Aria in the United States for the
03:40
Where do you want to start, Dad?
03:41
We've got an executive leaving his role, which is a little bit shocking.
03:45
And then we've got the pullback of Nissan's Aria EV.
03:48
Where do you want to start?
03:49
I think the big WTF here for Nissan is losing their sales and marketing hit.
03:57
All right, I'll start that.
04:00
This is a guy, Vinay, who they poached from Lexus less than two years ago.
04:07
And, you know, to suggest that he probably had a good run at Lexus because I don't know,
04:13
they have like a 39-day supply of automobiles at the Lexus dealerships and they've created
04:21
a certain mystique about the Lexus products.
04:26
And so you poach a guy like that to help turn around the fortunes of Nissan in North
04:34
America and North America is their most important area.
04:38
I'm going to sneeze.
04:41
Excuse me for that, ladies and gentlemen, I forgot to hit my sneeze button.
04:46
Oh, I don't have one.
04:48
And so you poach a guy like that to to really turn the tides for you.
04:55
And then he just quits.
04:58
I mean, it's not like.
05:02
He said, hey, you know what?
05:03
I'll give you two weeks.
05:04
He just he just up and quit.
05:07
OK, he said basically what he's saying is enough is enough.
05:11
This ain't going to work.
05:12
I don't want to solely my reputation any more than I already have.
05:17
Oh, by the way, I'm taking a job outside of automotive because, well, probably
05:21
nobody in automotive wants to hire me again because I was stupid enough
05:25
to leave Lexus to go to Nissan.
05:28
But in my opinion, because I don't, you know, but but the point is
05:34
if if you poach somebody from a company like Lexus and you can't
05:41
give them the tools that they need to do what it is that you hired them for
05:47
and they just abruptly quit.
05:50
That's that's the WTF moment.
05:53
That's that's that's a WTF moment.
05:56
And and maybe maybe a death knell moment
06:01
for the company here in the United States.
06:04
Just what do you make that of the decision to pull the Aria?
06:08
I think this is this one makes sense.
06:11
I mean, Nissan is not selling the Aria well in the United States.
06:14
Even your tax credits go away.
06:16
The countdown's on 13 days from now.
06:18
You're no longer going to have even tax credits.
06:20
So Nissan pulling back on one of their models that they invested a ton of
06:24
money into. So you've got an executive leaving and you also have the pullback
06:28
of what was supposed to be the future of their business, their their hot EV.
06:32
Yeah. Well, you know, it's it's it's imported from Japan.
06:36
So it's subject to higher tariffs than it was when they first came out with it.
06:42
They came out with it and the public's reaction was that's nice.
06:49
So they those vehicles they'd been languishing with since they introduced them.
06:55
So, yeah, they said, OK, we're not going to we're not going to ship
06:58
any of the 2026s to the United States in 2026.
07:03
They're also not committing to bringing it back in 2027.
07:10
So I think I think the handwriting's on the wall.
07:14
The Aria will be an EV that will be available in its home market
07:19
and in Europe and for whoever might want it there.
07:23
And their hope will be that the newly
07:28
redesigned Nissan Leaf will be there.
07:33
Their standard bear as far as an EV is concerned.
07:36
And yet they're having issues with that during production, because, well,
07:41
the battery doesn't seem to hold its charge the way it's supposed to
07:44
and doesn't get the range that it was supposed to get.
07:50
It it it seems like everything
07:55
at Nissan at the moment is is just going to hell on a handbasket.
07:59
If they touch it, it dies.
08:01
If they touch it, there's issues.
08:06
So I, you know, literally they say that the North American market
08:11
is their most important market.
08:14
And even though sales are up, I think 3.3 percent year over year,
08:19
they're still down like, I don't know, 15 or 20 percent from four or five years ago.
08:24
It is it is a brand that has lost whatever luster it had
08:31
and is struggling mightily.
08:34
So yeah, this is this is for sure.
08:38
Two WTF moments for Nissan
08:43
and how they recover from things like this beyond me.
08:48
Yeah, I hear you loud and clear.
08:49
All right, I want to parlay this into a conversation around what's
08:52
happening at the car dealership market in China.
08:55
Now, you might be saying, Zach, why the heck are we going to China?
08:57
And the reason I'm bringing this up is because there was an article
09:00
in automotive news how China's auto industry got stuck in a profit tailspin.
09:05
If there is an automaker domestically here in the United States
09:07
that's in a profit tailspin, it is most certainly Nissan.
09:10
And the reason I bring this up is because look at some of these numbers
09:15
Visitors can choose from some 5,000 vehicles at one of these showrooms
09:19
where you can purchase new cars in China.
09:21
Locally made Audi's are 50 percent off.
09:24
A seven-seater SUV from China's F.A.W.
09:26
is about twenty two thousand three hundred dollars, more than 60 percent
09:30
below sticker price.
09:31
I'm bringing this up dad because in the second largest market
09:34
outside of the United States, you want to see, you know,
09:38
you know, big price decreases.
09:41
OK, here's what's going on in China.
09:42
I'm not saying you're going to see 50 percent off Nissan Arias
09:45
any time soon, but this is how bad it can get.
09:48
This is insanity to me.
09:50
Well, well, it's insane.
09:53
Here's what you have to remember about China.
09:56
And I'm not going to sit here and suggest that I am an expert
10:01
on what goes on in China.
10:03
Because I am so far from an expert.
10:06
I don't even know how to order Chinese food
10:09
when I go to a Chinese restaurant.
10:11
Why? But I will say this.
10:14
There are cities in China where they are imploding
10:21
high rise residents, high rise condos
10:26
that they built that that, you know, the the government helped
10:31
subsidize these giant real estate developments
10:36
that nobody ever moved into that they couldn't sell any of the.
10:40
And so I literally there are.
10:43
What does that have to do with the car market there?
10:45
Well, I'm getting to that.
10:48
I can tie all this together.
10:49
You have you have no idea how my mind works.
10:53
So the government encouraged these real estate developers
10:58
to go ahead and build all this housing
11:01
that they then had to implode because these giant buildings
11:05
just set their vacant.
11:08
Well, the same thinking was utilized
11:11
by the Chinese government to encourage automobile manufacturing
11:16
and EV automobile manufacturing to the point
11:21
that there are so many EV manufacturers in China
11:26
that cannot compete, that cannot make money
11:31
because they have built much more supply
11:36
than there is demand even in their own home market.
11:40
Yeah. So it's it's if you watched what they did with real estate
11:45
and you apply that same thinking to what they're doing to the EV industry.
11:52
You've got to believe that it's not just EVs.
11:55
I want to just caution you here. It's not just EVs.
11:57
Well, it's automotive.
11:59
Yeah, it's cars. No, it's just cars.
12:01
Like this is the reason I brought it up
12:03
is because when you have such an out of wax supply and demand,
12:06
which is what we're seeing here in the second largest market in the world.
12:10
Yes. But again, Nissan Profit tailspin, they lost.
12:15
I think it was 99 percent of their operating margin last year in one of the quarters.
12:18
This is how bad it can get. We've never.
12:20
I mean, keep me honest here.
12:21
I don't think we've ever seen 50 percent off here in the United States,
12:24
even though OZ 72 says you may see 50 percent off or more on Ram products.
12:29
I don't think I'm right here with Mr.
12:31
Seeing they've never seen it, but it is possible.
12:34
And that's what we're seeing here in China.
12:36
Well, we have seen it in this country.
12:38
OK, in fit on Fisker products.
12:42
When when Fisker first brought out the ocean and their and their other new EV,
12:50
I mean, nothing, nothing failed quite as quickly as that vehicle did.
12:57
The reviews that it got were so horrible
13:02
that vehicles that had allegedly had an MSRP of around $40,000
13:08
were selling in the teens because Fisker was going out of business.
13:14
So we have seen it and you don't see it often.
13:19
You don't see it on brands that I don't know stick around
13:22
and they're going to be here for a long time.
13:24
And so you're seeing that same impact on the automotive industry in China
13:31
because the government encouraged through price reductions
13:39
these companies to compete worldwide
13:43
and have a competitive advantage because they could sell their stuff
13:48
much cheaper than other manufacturers.
13:50
Well, they could sell it because the government was subsidizing it to a certain degree.
13:55
And now they're all struggling because you've got way too many cars
14:00
and not enough buyers.
14:02
I don't know. I've heard of that somewhere before.
14:05
Well, that's what I'm saying, man.
14:06
I was just thinking like we're looking at all this Nissan information
14:09
and how they're in, you know, a tailspin.
14:12
Could this be a potential place where we land?
14:14
I don't think the ecosystem in the United States can support
14:17
50 percent off for the sale of new vehicles.
14:20
But let's do a live experiment.
14:22
You know, I love doing this.
14:23
I pulled up a 2025 Nissan Rogue were in Scottsdale, Arizona.
14:30
That's actually that's great.
14:31
If I'm a Nissan dealer, I love that.
14:33
Even though this one's been sitting for 130 days,
14:35
you're not seeing 50 percent off when there's a 58 days supply of inventory.
14:39
You're actually seeing relative price strength for the dealer
14:42
when there's a 58 days supply of inventory.
14:44
So, you know, there are some makes and models we've seen,
14:46
like for example, the new 2026 Ram pickup trucks
14:49
where I think we were looking in some markets, there was like a 4,000
14:52
days supply because they just came out.
14:54
Yes. And the dealers haven't sold the 2025s yet.
14:56
But I don't think things get quite as bad as they've gotten in China.
14:59
I don't think you're going to see 50 and 60 percent off MSRP ever
15:03
in the United States market.
15:04
Prices will get lower, significantly lower.
15:06
But I don't think for the mainstream brands, you're ever going to quite see that.
15:09
The only way you see that.
15:12
Is if one of the major brands just
15:17
pulls up the state stakes on their tents and and and closes up shop.
15:24
And so, you know, in order for their dealer body to get rid of the vehicles,
15:31
you know, they're going to have to price them 40, 50, 60 percent off.
15:37
You know, because that that then becomes distressed merchandise.
15:43
Could could could I see a future
15:48
where Nissan pulls up stakes in this country?
15:51
I don't I doubt it.
15:52
This is their biggest and best market.
15:55
So it's it's not like they're going to say to themselves, well, let's pull up
15:58
stakes in the United States and we'll just concentrate on Europe, Japan and China.
16:03
Oh, wait, things are worse in Europe, Japan and China.
16:07
So I don't see that happening here.
16:10
But I do I do foresee.
16:14
Certain brands that are relatively mainstream brands,
16:16
Alfa Romeo, for example, I can I can see them vacating the US market again.
16:23
If and when they do that, will you be able to buy
16:27
an Alfa Romeo at 50 percent off?
16:30
Not sure what I could I suspect that perhaps
16:36
Jaguar's foray into an all electric vehicle and taking a year off
16:41
could spell the end of Jaguar in this country come next year,
16:45
when they try and re-enter the market, perhaps.
16:50
So I think there are some brands out there
16:54
Mitsubishi might be one.
16:56
I think there are some brands out there
16:59
that that could really struggle and maybe at a certain point
17:04
decided it's time to exit the US market again.
17:09
And if they do, maybe that's the one circumstance where we see
17:13
similar price decreases like what we're seeing in China.
17:16
I thought that was crazy when I saw 50 and 60 percent off MSRP
17:20
further reinforces the idea that the MSRP is just that it's just
17:24
an arbitrary line in the sand.
17:26
And the beauty of that is that this particular reseller
17:34
they go out and they buy the distressed merchandise from the manufacturer.
17:39
They're not even necessarily a manufacturer or dealer in that sense.
17:46
They are a reseller of distressed merchandise that they bought.
17:51
OK, and then they turn around.
17:54
And so if they're offering outies at 50 percent off
17:58
or they're offering vehicles from F.A.W. at 60 percent off.
18:04
Well, that means they paid less than 50 percent off
18:07
to buy the outies and less than and they got more than 60 percent off
18:13
to buy those F.A.W.s because they're still making money.
18:16
They I mean, there are always liquidators out there who buy goods
18:22
at pennies on the dollar and then turn around and sell them
18:27
at 40, 50, 60 percent off of what the asking price was.
18:31
You know, because well, they bought it at 80 or 90 percent off
18:35
of what the asking price was again.
18:37
The market dynamics between the United States and China a little bit different.
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OK, just and on our team compiled seven vehicles that are actually getting
20:56
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You ready for some good news?
21:03
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, clue me in.
21:05
All right, let's run through it, Dad.
21:07
First on our list, we got seven of them.
21:09
The 2026 Dodge Durango Road and Track Plus.
21:13
Yes, this vehicle, Dad, the 2026 base price is $47,490.
21:19
That's a seventy five hundred dollar price decrease year over year.
21:24
We're starting off with a banger here, man.
21:26
Dodge knows that they're struggling to sell vehicles.
21:28
They are reducing the base MSRP plus destination by seventy five hundred bucks
21:34
So so so they're admitting that that for the past few years,
21:40
they've just really stuck it to their customers who were thinking of and who
21:46
purchased or at least a Durango.
21:49
I that's that's what they're saying.
21:51
Hey, man, you've got to give them credit.
21:52
At least they're they're doing something.
21:55
Well, yes, yeah, you do have to give them credit for that.
21:59
You still have to berate them a little bit for having waited five years to do it.
22:07
OK, as they watch their sales go down and they watch their market share shrink.
22:14
But but yeah, you have to give them credit for finally going.
22:18
You know what? It's I guess it's past time, so let's do it.
22:22
So yeah, God bless them for that.
22:25
Hopefully it'll be enough to get people to consider the Durango.
22:29
I know we rented one when we were in Puerto Rico and it was an all right vehicle.
22:35
But you've come on here and you've shared the story.
22:37
What was it, the actor at TL?
22:39
Yeah, it was a heel year over year.
22:41
They added functionality and features and they actually reduce the MSRP kudos
22:45
to Dodge here. They're doing the same exact thing.
22:47
But they redesigned the car.
22:49
It was a whole completely different car.
22:52
I'm pretty sure they haven't done that on the Durango other than just lower the price.
22:58
For sure. But still, that's a good kudos to them for realizing the error of their
23:03
ways five years late and doing something about next on the list.
23:08
That the Cadillac OPTIQ. Wow.
23:11
I didn't even realize you made this thing.
23:14
We're seeing a nineteen hundred and ninety five dollar price decrease.
23:18
So nearly two thousand dollars year over year.
23:21
This is their entry level luxury EV.
23:25
OK, great. It seems to me they they need to take more than nineteen ninety.
23:30
But hey, it's a start.
23:34
You can see the the side over here of the next one.
23:37
Twenty twenty six Chevrolet Silverado EV.
23:40
Dad also is seeing a price decrease year over year.
23:43
A twenty two hundred dollar price decrease year over year.
23:47
Can we go back to Cadillac for just one second?
23:50
Of course, you know, when Cadillac decided that they were going to go all EV,
23:55
they gave their dealers the option of going along with it or.
24:01
We'll buy back your franchise.
24:03
We'll pay you to buy back your franchise in your area so that we can have less dealers.
24:11
Yep. Those Cadillac dealers
24:14
that opted to sell back their franchise to GM were probably some of
24:19
the smartest people on the face of the planet when, you know, in hindsight.
24:25
You know, if your entry level luxury vehicle is fifty two grand
24:33
you on on models that, yes, sales are up because incentives are going away
24:43
on models that otherwise have been difficult at best to sell.
24:48
Those dealers adopted to give up their franchises made the right decision, in my opinion.
24:53
Interesting comment here.
24:54
The OPTIQ price cut is fake.
24:56
They removed the all wheel drive being standard equipment.
24:58
And now it's the base model with rear wheel drives.
25:01
That's a good inequality point here.
25:03
Thanks for calling that out.
25:04
Next on the list, Ed, was that Silverado EV?
25:07
You know, slight price.
25:08
And this includes the destination charge decline there.
25:11
Dad, another product from Stellantis, the twenty twenty six Jeep Cherokee is
25:14
actually seeing a two thousand two hundred and ninety five dollar price decrease.
25:21
They skip twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five on the Cherokee.
25:25
The twenty six is all new design and everything like that.
25:27
And the base price will be twenty two hundred dollars cheaper than it was three years ago.
25:32
And it'll come standard with the hybrid power train.
25:36
So there's there's a situation that's that's akin to what Accura did
25:41
with the TL in nineteen ninety nine and and two thousand,
25:45
where they completely redesigned the vehicle and added a lot of
25:52
of standard features that would have been optional on other vehicles
25:57
and lowered the price significantly.
25:59
So, yeah, it can be done, you know, to take off two years before you do it.
26:06
God, I mean, give I'll give some flowers to Stellantis for for
26:13
admitting the error of their ways and at least trying in some small way or another
26:19
to do something about it.
26:21
Yeah, absolutely. You have to.
26:22
You can't look at this and think otherwise.
26:24
Twenty twenty six Jeep Wrangler Rubicon is seeing its base price go down as well.
26:28
Fifteen hundred and ninety five dollars at the base price for twenty twenty six.
26:33
Jeep Wrangler Rubicon is still forty seven thousand three hundred and fifty five
26:37
dollars. Other Wrangler trims have actually seen their prices go up,
26:41
but the Rubicon actually has that sixteen hundred nearly sixteen hundred dollar
26:46
Well, OK, so that so so far three out of the seven are still at this promise.
26:53
Next, you've got that the key EV nine,
26:56
the EV nine, depending on the trim level, seeing a two thousand or one thousand
27:00
dollar price decrease.
27:01
But let this sink in, folks, the MSRPs on these are still absolutely crazy.
27:06
The GT line, for example, for the EV nine is seventy three thousand three hundred
27:10
and ninety five bucks.
27:12
I don't know, man, that's that's a hefty, hefty, hefty price tag.
27:16
Well, well, you know, I'm of the opinion and you can correct me if I'm wrong.
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I'm of the opinion that if someone were to go into a key
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dealership and drop, say, seventy five large plus fees,
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they're expecting to walk out with two or three cars, not one.
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OK, that's just me,
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because I I can't think of a Kia and seventy plus thousand dollar MSRP
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in the same sentence.
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Those two things do not go together.
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Yeah, well, when when maybe you remember when you were in kindergarten or
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first grade or second grade and they'd go through things and they'd go,
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what doesn't belong here?
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They'd show three pictures and they'd go, well, what doesn't belong here?
28:06
And and so if they showed pictures of vehicles that are seventy thousand dollars
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MSRP, I think people would go, well, the Kia, that doesn't belong there.
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So that that is that is it.
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And I understand that the EV nine is a lovely, beautiful
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EV, but oh my, it's seventy three thousand dollars worth.
28:34
It's a Kia, damn it.
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OK, it's still a Kia.
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Price price point went down, though.
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I want to be very clear.
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So year over year, what we're celebrating here is the price actually went down.
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But it's still an absurd price point.
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And then the fact that it's a Kia just adds insult to injury.
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Then next vehicle in the last vehicle that's seeing its price decrease here over
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year, notice, no Nissan's on this list.
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Yes, we started the show with Nissan, no Nissan's on this list.
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The twenty twenty six Kia Seltos, much different price point here.
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Data thousand dollar, nine hundred and fifty dollar price point decline year over
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year, we're talking about twenty five thousand one hundred and thirty five
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dollar base MSRP, that's more like it.
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Yes, that, you know, and, you know, when you when you say Kia and a twenty five
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thousand dollar MSRP, that's what you think when you think Kia.
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And that's why I'm thinking if somebody is going to drop that kind of money
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on an EV nine, they're thinking that they're picking up three,
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three of these type of vehicles and not that that EV.
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Done, though, I will say, good to see we've got some price declines heading in.
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Yes, yes, twenty six.
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Let's come here to the.
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You know how you like to do things live, of course, live experiments.
29:53
I would like you, if you could, to we know that the Fed dropped the Fed
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rate yesterday, twenty five basis points.
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And we know from the Edmunds data that we talked about the other day
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that the average new car APR is seven percent and the average amount
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financed is forty two seven.
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And let's just say for fun that that's for 60 months.
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I would I would like to see what that twenty five basis point drop.
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How that would impact the payment if the auto finance drop was
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the same twenty five basis points.
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Cool. Yeah, let's do it.
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So you're buying a fifty thousand dollar vehicle.
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We're in the state of Utah, whatever.
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We'll just keep all the open ten thousand dollars down.
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So we're financing forty grand over 60 months, seven hundred and fifty four
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dollar a month payment.
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And that's a and that's a pretty good seven percent.
30:57
All right, so let's do some because we know that to be the average interest
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rate today. So we're at seven hundred and ninety two bucks.
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We're financing forty thousand dollars.
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OK, now put it at six point seven five percent.
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So it went from seven ninety two.
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So it's a five dollar a month payment difference.
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My point for doing this experiment is that five dollars is not the difference
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between what a customer can afford and they cannot afford when it comes to
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their monthly payment.
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So those people out there who are hoping against hope that
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this cut in in fed rate is going to have a really positive impact on auto
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loans. You're out of your mind.
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OK, you can see right here that it is such an insignificant amount that it's
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not really going to drive more sales because somebody could save five
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dollars a month that that you know that that doesn't even pay for one
32:07
So you think about it.
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I mean, I'm not saying that five hours isn't five hours.
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Well, maybe today five hours is probably two dollars and fifty cents.
32:17
But whatever I am saying is that it's not a significant amount of savings
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that it's going to to positively impact auto sales and save the industry from
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itself. And what do I mean by that?
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Well, the industry is are those who have continually increased MSRPs over the
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year to make most vehicles out of people's reach and a five dollar a month
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reduction in that payment is not something that's going to move sales forward.
32:52
I think you're on to something pops.
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Let's come here to the chat.
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Yeah, from Matthew.
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I appreciate it, Matthew.
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Yeah, buddy, just picked up a GT3 RS 350 large already.
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Oh, damn, Matthew, I kind of wish I was you for a day.
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Oh, why just do it for a day?
33:10
Yeah, I wish I was you.
33:12
I'm happy with where I am in life, but I also in mind having a Porsche GT3 RS.
33:19
You know, you know, I'd like to be you for a month.
33:22
I don't know that I could handle it more than a month.
33:26
Dad again, want to think ABC Six Action News outside of Philadelphia,
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South Jersey, that whole area and DP saying they saw us on there yesterday.
33:35
I was an awesome moment.
33:36
If you guys don't have a connected with me on LinkedIn,
33:38
you know, please do just my name, Zach.
33:41
Chefs go really awesome to see this story go out yesterday.
33:44
And they just I mean, my dad said it was like an ad for us.
33:47
It kind of did feel like an ad for us.
33:49
It was awesome, man.
33:54
I'm guessing we didn't pay them to run this story, but literally this was
33:59
nothing but an ad and it was it was the best ad money could buy.
34:05
It does not pay for it.
34:07
Yeah. In that we didn't have to pay for it.
34:10
And they just and they just ran the story.
34:15
Thank thank you to everyone at Channel Six who made that happen in Philadelphia.
34:21
And I think it speaks not it's not.
34:24
But I want to be clear because it's it's earned media.
34:26
It's like a journalist made the story.
34:28
Like it's not an ad we didn't pay for it.
34:30
No, it's a great product and it's a great experience and it solves a real challenge.
34:35
And that's why I think it feels that way.
34:37
Well, and my whole point to all this was is that I think ultimately this will be
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one of the things that drags the retail automotive industry into the 21st century.
34:53
It might be kicking and screaming.
34:55
But I think, you know,
34:59
one of our goals was to change the industry for the better.
35:03
And when we started this, I said to you, well, I'm never going to see it in my
35:08
lifetime, maybe in yours because you're a young man.
35:12
With the advent of this,
35:17
I pretty much can see it in my lifetime, I think.
35:23
Hey, from Matthew here, not me, a buddy.
35:26
Don't know Matthew, but OK, well, then give us your buddy's name.
35:31
And, you know, we'll we'll take on his identity for a month.
35:36
All right, folks, if we can help you out with anything, caredge.com.
35:39
Appreciate everyone tuning in and spend some time with us.
35:41
We'll be back tomorrow with another episode of Car Edge Live.
35:44
Enjoy the afternoon pops.
35:45
That's my plan here.
35:46
But well, you do the same young man.
35:49
Is it finally sunny in Washington because of that sunny here at the shore?
35:53
It's gorgeous. It's actually warm here today.
35:55
But yeah, it's supposed to be it's supposed to get up to seventy five here today
35:59
and eighty tomorrow and then back down to like seventy on Saturday.
36:05
Well, you have you have a great afternoon, young man.
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And and well, hell, I'll see you tomorrow.
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We'll be back later. Thanks, everyone.
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