New Price Rises

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Sun 8 Jan 2006 19:58
New Price Rises - carl_a
I noticed that Daihatsu have sneaked in a price rises recently, roughthly 7% across the range. Kia have done it in the last couple of months, so have Hyundai with refreshes. BMW, Honda did it and I think so did Ford a little while ago.

Car prices had been coming down for several years, does this mean that they will be going up from now on ?
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Sun 8 Jan 2006 20:07
New Price Rises - Sprice
They can put them up if they want, but more fool them the way the industry is at present.
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Sun 8 Jan 2006 22:16
New Price Rises - carl_a
Real prices paid (as against 'list') have to go up or
soon there won't be any more car manufacturers. At the moment
we are enjoying the lowest real world prices we have paid
for 20 years.
HJ


Very true, but remember that production costs are being reduced too, Honda starting to build Jazz in China, PSA/Toyota and others in Eastern Europe, Japanese/Koreans in India. Cars are also being built more efficiently and designs/R&D are increasingly being shared between manufactures to reduce costs.

Parts of the car industry are losing big money but another part is making a huge profit.
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