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<blockquote data-quote="cachsux" data-source="post: 434341" data-attributes="member: 5529"><p>Cold,it`s not customer needs,it`s demands. The reason,mistakenly,the big 3 relied on SUV and LT sales is because they are extremely profitable,in the neighborhood of 10-12K per vehicle. Up until the last 2 years they still were the vehicles that accounted for the most sales.Look around how many behemoths being driven by soccer moms do you see. It took $4 a Gal gas to finally kill the sales to a sufficient point that the car manufacturers couldn`t shore up their cash funds by relying on them. The other mistake is not having a larger more fuel efficient line in existence that could have been ramped up to fulfill the "new" demands of the consumer. A new car from scratch takes around 5 years to go from board to build,at best. This helped the foreign manu`s even more because,do to their home market,their lines were already for the most part smaller and fuel efficient. If you look the only place they made bigger vehicles for,on a larger basis,was the U.S market. Those portions of their market are hurting also but they have the smaller cars to fall back on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cachsux, post: 434341, member: 5529"] Cold,it`s not customer needs,it`s demands. The reason,mistakenly,the big 3 relied on SUV and LT sales is because they are extremely profitable,in the neighborhood of 10-12K per vehicle. Up until the last 2 years they still were the vehicles that accounted for the most sales.Look around how many behemoths being driven by soccer moms do you see. It took $4 a Gal gas to finally kill the sales to a sufficient point that the car manufacturers couldn`t shore up their cash funds by relying on them. The other mistake is not having a larger more fuel efficient line in existence that could have been ramped up to fulfill the "new" demands of the consumer. A new car from scratch takes around 5 years to go from board to build,at best. This helped the foreign manu`s even more because,do to their home market,their lines were already for the most part smaller and fuel efficient. If you look the only place they made bigger vehicles for,on a larger basis,was the U.S market. Those portions of their market are hurting also but they have the smaller cars to fall back on. [/QUOTE]
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