Comments on: Will $3 gas bring back truck, SUV buyers?

By: peter g

peter g — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:16:40 +0000

Hopefully not…They can’t be that stupid. This is not the 70’s…

By: maxcar

maxcar — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:54:58 +0000

if it does bring them back, they’re all really stupid. fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. dino juice is a limited commodity, it can ultimately only get more expensive. anyone ever heard of whale oil? was once a household standard commodity for lamp oil, but is now scarcer than rocking horse shiat, and very, very expensive.

By: Z06ified

Z06ified — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:48:51 +0000

People will forget the pain, but it will take 3-5 years, not 3-5 months.

By: hangonbig3

hangonbig3 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:41:54 +0000

Way to go Johnny……I work for a Chrysler dealer and you gave me a great reason to laugh my *** off.

By: HoosierHero

HoosierHero — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:40:42 +0000

Um…no. The 70’s gas crisis obviously didn’t have a lasting effect on consumers. Why would these last few years be any different?

By: ricky_b

ricky_b — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:40:06 +0000

For how little I would use one, I’ll just rent one. Heck, I’m even scrutinizing what my next car will be because of gas prices, for get about truck & SUV’s

By: DeansterTJ

DeansterTJ — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:17:47 +0000

When you have 200 lbs of extra lard to carry around over your beltline, you need a wide seat and a vehicle you can step-up into. Have you ever seen a fat man fall into a low-slung sedan? They nearly kill themselves.

SUVs will never go away. As soon as the global green trend dies out, a la Atkins diet, and the markets rebound in a few years, people will go back to buying what they want.

By: carstuff

carstuff — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:57:33 +0000

Those that need pick ups will always buy them UNLESS they cannot afford them. So once the economy gets rolling the business’s will buy them like mad due to pent up demand.

Now the full size SUV’s will never be back to what they were but it is surely not a dead segment. Even today they sell in huge numbers.

What will happen is that capacity will drop (no more rams) and they will become very profitable again.

By: bolex

bolex — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:19:17 +0000

last sentence says it all. those in charge will know that they tickled the 5 dollar mark and wont hesitate to go there again. i wouldnt go out and buy a prius but at the same time i wouldnt buy a large suv.

By: tins

tins — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:26:28 +0000

Lambs to the slaughter.

By: elviososa

elviososa — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:17:47 +0000

oh…by the way….silverado is a “Garbage Motor”….go F150…huahahahahah

By: elviososa

elviososa — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:15:39 +0000

I don’t think so……After this lesson, people learned….and Big SUV is dead!

By: eff1Fifty

eff1Fifty — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:54:46 +0000

fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Anyone with any common sense would learn from what just happened… and there is NO reason why gas wont go back up again in a moment’s notice

By: cereal

cereal — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:53:39 +0000

hell no.

well. maybe.

eh, it’s America. <– I’ll leave it at that.

-Eat your cereal

By: Mike the loser

Mike the loser — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:45:53 +0000

I think people will go back, i love America, but we are a very short term memory nation.

Plus, a lot of people who drive these tanks are fat, so they need a big SUV, once you add that with the fact that automakers will improve MPGs on all vehicles across the board.

I think if right now GM had Tahoe on sale for the same price as a conventional Tahoe, but one that delivered 6-7 MPG more, i think that truck would be more or less resistant to increase in gas process.

That is what i think will happen in the future, all SUVs will become more efficient which will attract people back.

By: 1c3d0g

1c3d0g — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:12:50 +0000

It would be terrible for consumers to go back to their usual habits of buying gas-guzzling vehicles. Then again, most consumers seem to suffer permanent long-term memory loss. I’m sure my friend Big Oil has something to say in here…

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:54:16 +0000

No.

And Johnny, you are one scary “sonna me bitch”.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:10:58 +0000

I can’t wait to visit Disneyland in about 10 years and spend some time in ‘it was a large world’ where patrons can pick their favorite SUV from yesteryear and ride menacingly close to the rear bumper of Geo Metros at high speed.

By: tyler_is_aero_tt

tyler_is_aero_tt — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:51:10 +0000

I pray to God not. It was nice not to have been breathing in all of that extra exhaust fume from giant gas guzzlers.

By: Spingood Tanoya

Spingood Tanoya — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:48:02 +0000

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

By: Blakkarr

Blakkarr — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:40:41 +0000

I would think “once bitten, twice shy.” Trucks and SUVs are and will not be the popular mechs going forward. I think the Crossovers will give way to wagons and better made minivans in the next 10 years.

Detroit never should have stopped making med and full sized FR cars. Even if v8s take a hit the six and the turbo four will always keep those cars on the road.

By: TomF

TomF — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:56:38 +0000

Good God, I hope not. If the public gravitates back to 12-mpg behemoths, we as a society can retire the stupidity jersey for good.

By: Madcapp

Madcapp — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:54:43 +0000

By the way, where’s that new 2,200 pound mid engined Porsche 914/Volkswagen for me to buy?

By: golf4me

golf4me — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:53:48 +0000

Not if they have half a brain…hopefully everyone has learned their lesson. Trucks are for work, not for bringin your brats to soccer practice. You need to tow something twice a year? Rent a goddam truck.

By: Madcapp

Madcapp — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:53:19 +0000

I sure hope not. Its time to clear that oversized, inefficient, impractical junk off the road.

By: Lariat Luxury Locomotive Liner No.3

Lariat Luxury Locomotive Liner No.3 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:52:52 +0000

I hope not as I am building a ten story three-hundred room progressive hotel comprised of new SUVs welded together. I’ll send everyone an invitation when we open the doors.

By: A4

A4 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:44:58 +0000

go silverado!