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08-20-2021, 12:19 PM | #1 |
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Dealer Gives C8 Corvette Owner New Car After Mechanic’s 148-MPH Street Race!
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Given the current times, the dealer will probably be able to sell the 2021 for a tidy sum, to the point of making money. Regardless good on the dealer.
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She got the same color, which I didn't understand - but it's insane what the used car market is doing right now.
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One of my Hellcats I sold for $6k more than what I paid for it and put 14k miles and 1 full warranty replaced Motor on it. Lol |
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You aren't kidding I keep getting dealer offers on my 2019 F250 for $10k over what I paid 30k miles ago. Insane especially considering it's just the work truck package with no power anything. Only options are a tow package, a/c and a radio.
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What the hell are these price stories, tf is going on with the car market?
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08-22-2021, 02:46 AM | #9 |
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Dealerships aren't getting enough inventory because of the microchip shortage. Car's are supposedly being built and just sitting around unfinished because they don't have the microchips to finish them.
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Umm...hardly blown out of proportion nor hearsay. If you go to any car dealer, you can see the impact of the low inventory. Even rental car companies are suffering from this. I know personally about this as I had to get a rental recently due to my car going into a body shop for work. Thank goodness I was doing this through State Farm insurance and had put in an advanced reservation. When I got to the nearby Enterprise Rental Car facility, there were literally almost no cars on their lot. I've never seen it that way ever. Their phones were ringing off the hook with people asking for same day rentals which they couldn't fulfill. Every response was maybe you'll get a car in 2 or 3 days. I had put in for a standard car and they didn't have anything on the lot. I got put in an Audi A5 which of course is several tiers higher than the rental I had reserved. Enterprise even honored the standard car per day pricing. All due to low inventory.
And the bottleneck is with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). They seem to be the only large scale manufacturer that is capable of producing these chips needed in the automotive industry. This is what we all get for outsourcing all of our manufacturing capability to one source. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/21/tsmc...last-year.html |
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Also, it's not a supply issue but rather the root cause was brought upon by companies that had slowed or shut down suddenly all restarting at the same time spiking demand past capacity limits. People working from home spurred a massive digital transformation that spiked demand as well. The US-China trade war also caused a massive front-loading of chip demand... and so on. These events are not normal. In normal times, production capacity is more than sufficient to cover demand. |
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And what do you think is happening now. Lack of inventory to meet demand for order IS a supply issue. Doesn't matter what caused it. If there was more than one source for these chips, the supply crunch wouldn't be so severe. |
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Anyway, the chip shortage has affected some automakers gravely...some are not affected. Shortage abounds due to lack of supply, the ones that have supply trying to fill the abscess created by the ones that have none.
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These older process nodes are not a priority for TSMC especially. Roadmaps are predetermined years ahead of time and there is no way to quickly add capacity. Foundries will not invest in old stuff for what is perceived as a short-term demand spike. Intel will probably never fab chips like these, they are not advanced enough. However, there does need to be more diversification of the supply chain. The relentless focus on short term profit for shareholder return is what has driven this industry-wide consolidation and we are all paying the price for it. Most of these automotive chips could be made just about anywhere, but it is usually no trivial task to move a chip to another foundry. Many "simple" 45-90nm digital parts would take months and months of work to move. With analog stuff, it is not uncommon for a new part to be created and the old one discontinued because the performance of the part is so tightly coupled to where it's manufactured. Last edited by chris719; 08-22-2021 at 11:43 PM.. |
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Given that this discussion has been entirely about chips, it seems most people agree why my initial impression of the video: who really cares? Unless he got some rock chips or the car wasn't warmed up properly there's nothing wrong with going 148 in a C8. I don't fully understand why this warranted a brand new car but if I was the owner I'd gladly take that offer too.
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