How the Chip Shortage Is Forcing Auto Makers to Adapt | WSJ

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1. I was going to buy a new car this year but the dealer would only take $100.00 off the sticker price because of the chip shortage. Looks like I will wait a year or two!!!! I will NOT pay sticker price for any car. PERIOD!!!!! I wish it was the 70s again, NO chips in cars!!!!!

2. Boo hoo lol am I supposed to feel bad for any of these car makers?

3. I just purchase some 'chips' at my grocery store and they were plentiful!

4. I went to the dealership and manage to get a Toyota corolla 2021 out the door and man I was lucky cause they literally mentioned the chip shortages. As result there is very limited numbers of brand new cars.

5. Idk, just build simpler cars again? Great idea right?

6. YES BRING ME A FULL MECHANICAL BMW 5 SERIES AGAIN

7. It’s obvious manufacturers want you to believe there is still a shortage. Because over night car prices will drop back to heavily discounted.

8. Poorly written piece. The automakers cancelled chip orders due to the Covid shutdowns and reduction in sales. The chip makers retooled to make more consumer electronics chips and won't switch back as long as they are running at capacity; which they are. Also, consumer electronics chips are more profitable to the chip makers, so why would they want to retool back?

9. wait, humans cannot get exactly what they want immediately ? !

10. CARBS N POINTS

11. Next up… JIT becomes Agile JIT, as JIT was shown to be a corner cutting method that cannot adjust to disruptions. Good thing employers are going to keep employees working remote so they do not need them to buy cars. Right… right?

12. ??? All you need is the ECU. Stop making cars complicating and expensive, we wouldn't be in this mess if they kept it simple

13. This is what happens when USA move chip production overseas. America first.

14. "Old n' busted. New hotness… Old busted hotness"- Will Smith 2002

    Now that's basically the modern car market…

15. Ever see the price of a late 90s 4Runner with 300,000 miles? You don’t see a lot of 20 year old cars as much as a 4Runner. Best car on the road still to this day. Have 2 in my household. Easy to work on too. They don’t make them like that anymore.

16. Oh no people have to keep their perfectly good "old" cars what're they gonna do😩

17. Your acting like new cars are the only option

18. Removing fuel management chip…oh ok. Here’s a solution, build a chip manufacturer in the US

19. My Ford F-150 pickup truck is the fastest truck in the country because of the chip shortage

20. Also the chips are old and obsolete.. They need to update their designs from the ground up

21. Bought a used 2018 Corolla with 49k miles on it for $13k in March, what a steal compared to today’s prices

22. I doubt anyone is sympathetic to the auto makers. They constantly get bailed out by the government, and in return, raise prices beyond immeasurable inflation.

23. Trump said YEARS ago let make chips in America! They said it was racist! You got what you wanted! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

24. You’d think the big three gm Ford and dodge all go in to make a dedicated chip factory in the USA to get chips out ready and mostly automated

25. Bring back the carb! No chips needed for that….and will make the cars reliable…again

26. dont buy a car unless u absolutely have to. those of us that bought a car in 2018 and 2019 lucked out big time. 😀

27. In other news, Apple announces that due to a chip shortage, it will now be possible to freely replace parts that previously required special Apple software to replace.

28. THANKS COVID 🤬🤬🤬

29. "Just in Time" is a fancy anti American way of saying "Just from China". FYI China is in a world of hurt. 2+ months of 100 year rains/ flooding dams breaking … Mass Covid outbreak . Massive real estate collapse pending. Massive chip shortage so bad that they re de populating old scrap trash board and recycling old components as NEW.

30. The shortage is Fake
    It’s all just more control to gouge the price

31. remember when cars didn't have chips

32. The chip shortage is due to the trade war. When Donald Trump started his trade war, he banned around 60 Chinese tech companies from doing business in the US, and those were the companies that made those chips. Since GM bought their chips from those companies, and there aren't any alternative suppliers, GM is out of luck and has to idle production.

33. Oh wonderful. Now the government is involved. What could possibly go wrong?

34. The problem with being lean. Redundancy goes out the window. But relying on China for your critical components is silly and a novice move.

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