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the host expert on our auto expert dot COM's website. A number of
things that affect your ability to buy a car, to run a car.
A couple of things regarding the auto workers strike. Looks like it's getting heavier
and worse. What's the scuttle butt on this as to when there will be
some result? I think you said to us last week that the auto the
auto manufacturers don't care because they got a ninety day supply of cars. So
is that still the prevailing thinking. Yeah, And I think the cars that
they have sitting on dealer lots, Doug, are the cars that they want
to get rid of, and so they're more than happy for people to choose
what they don't want. You know, again, again the classic situation every
time we talk, it's the buyer that suffers every time. Right, they're
holding out. Everybody's holding out, and one or the other could push really
hard and probably get this resolve, but they're quite comfortable where they're at.
Isn't that interesting? I put you on you went to Korea this week,
a close friend of mine. I put the two of you together. You
didn't get together. As it turned out, one of the things that was
on his mind when he went over there as the number of electric vehicles that
they're pushing on the dealers and something that he'd done. Did I tell you
this? Last week? He's got twenty nine dealerships, and he had four
or five of the stores. They had more electric vehicles than they you know,
because the companies just keep sending them to them and they're not selling here.
So he put them on. He put six cars from six dealerships on
six trucks and sent them to California to be sold out there. They made
a deal with some dealers out there because the electric cars are selling out there.
They're not selling here. But I thought that was kind of interesting.
They just put them on a bunch of drugs in Centermc, California. Here
you sell them. Yeah, It's it's super interesting how certain parts of the
country are really interested in certain cars and other parts of the country are not.
You know, they sell the big luxury SUVs everywhere but New York.
And you would think that all the limo services they would, but no,
no, New York. The negotiations with the auto workers, as we were
talking, seems to be in part I focus on electric vehicles and also the
concerns about AI. They have proposed a what forty percent increase the average worker
by the way, now, for those of you who don't know, the
plant wages average thirty two dollars an hour, so yeah, and some making
like seventy bucks an hour. Some work a lot less than that. The
difficulty, the difficulty is with electric cars is they just they take very few
people to put together a lot of stuff like the battery. There's not so
many moving parts. Doug and the unions worried that they're going to end up
with less people in the factories, which means less members, which means they
have a less of a work bring out on strike. So there's sort of
valid concerns, but you can't stop things moving forward, whether they're moving forward
in the right way or the wrong way. That ends up, you know,
the consumers always wins. So let's see what happens twenty years. Let's
have this discussion again. All right, so let's talk about what will happen.
As has happened during COVID, the used car market got really hot and
the prices of used cars sort of varied. They're going up and down now
over much of our country. And the closer apparently you get to Canada,
the better the deal. Why would that be, Well, a lot of
those dealers on the Canadian border actually have access to cars to come over the
border, and it's good. Sometimes it's not others. I brought a vehicle
into the United States from Canada, and of course they favor kilometers an hour.
The odometers in kilometers an hour, so you have to change now you
have to be aware of that when you drive it. But these cars are
interchangeable a lot of times. With the new electronic dashes, you can actually
just hit a button and move it from miles and a half kilometers an hour
or vice versa. The older cars, you know, they where they have
physical odometers, you can't do that so much. But if you need live
near Canada, cars are actually cheaper. So Michigan, you know, anywhere
along the border cars are cheaper because they're coming in from Canada, and Canada
has a whole different ecosystem when it comes to automotive sales. Yeah, you
know, I blew my mind this week on rr or expert dot com the
story about buying engines from Walmart. I can't begin. I mean, it's
like buying them from ebon, eBay or Amazon. I guess. Then you
buy the engine, Okay, then ready you do well? I mean,
I mean if you're if you're savvy enough to install it yourself. Great.
But the funny thing is Walmart has always sold very strange stuff, and being
able to buy a create engine from Walmart and then use their returns policy seems
strange and you can't actually do that anywhere else in the automotive industry. It's
just funny. You can sit there with them, buy a twenty five thousand
dollars engine like anything. Yeah, and then you take the piece of the
old one and sent it back. But you can buy an engine and a
transmission from Walmart. My god, Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, Well it's always a story to be told here, Nick Miles,
fabulous expert our autoexpert dot com. What a great website. Happy to
have you here on the program. The next Stefan Good Day Download with Doug
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