Hello Everyone,
Interesting video attached. For those of you who are not familiar with Savage Geese, he is one of the many You Tube automotive reviewers that has supplemented what traditional car magazines have done for years. In this video he provides a summarization of observations of some of the challenges that are happening in the automotive industry. Many of his thoughts have been mentioned and discussed in detail here on BITOG by many of the subscribers.
I agree with most everything in his summary. The future industry is going to have to change to survive by comparison to it's recent past. For those of us whom have studied automotive history, we have seen this happen before. In the early decades of the industry, many of the low volume luxury marques / brands like Pierce Arrow, Duesenberg, Cord, Auburn, etc could not survive the transitioning economics of the times they thrived in. Next the fall and merger of the great independents; Kaiser Frazer, Packard, Studebaker, Hudson, Maxwell, AMC etc. Most recently the consolidation of brands, and nameplates from leading OEMs started to disappear; Mercury, Plymouth, Saturn, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Eagle, etc. ceased production for many of the same economic reasons.
It is true, that history repeats itself, and hopefully with the next transition we will see a new stronger industry emerge that will provide great product offers that we will all enjoy. Until that is complete, we may continue to experience more of the same challenges that we seen lately, as discussed in the video.
Please watch and comment as your experiences and insight can help us all learn.
Interesting video attached. For those of you who are not familiar with Savage Geese, he is one of the many You Tube automotive reviewers that has supplemented what traditional car magazines have done for years. In this video he provides a summarization of observations of some of the challenges that are happening in the automotive industry. Many of his thoughts have been mentioned and discussed in detail here on BITOG by many of the subscribers.
I agree with most everything in his summary. The future industry is going to have to change to survive by comparison to it's recent past. For those of us whom have studied automotive history, we have seen this happen before. In the early decades of the industry, many of the low volume luxury marques / brands like Pierce Arrow, Duesenberg, Cord, Auburn, etc could not survive the transitioning economics of the times they thrived in. Next the fall and merger of the great independents; Kaiser Frazer, Packard, Studebaker, Hudson, Maxwell, AMC etc. Most recently the consolidation of brands, and nameplates from leading OEMs started to disappear; Mercury, Plymouth, Saturn, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Eagle, etc. ceased production for many of the same economic reasons.
It is true, that history repeats itself, and hopefully with the next transition we will see a new stronger industry emerge that will provide great product offers that we will all enjoy. Until that is complete, we may continue to experience more of the same challenges that we seen lately, as discussed in the video.
Please watch and comment as your experiences and insight can help us all learn.
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