Toyota exec says car shortage will last another year and shoppers may reject EV push

[Kyle]

Online shopping has changed how people buy cars

Car shopping is not going to get much easier anytime soon, according to an executive at the world's largest automaker.

Toyota's executive vice president of sales, Jack Hollis, told the Automotive Press Association on Thursday that he does not expect the supply shortage to ease up until late 2023.

"We're going to be dealing with this for one more year. I do not believe we're going to see growing dealer stock for one more year. I think we're going to be in a situation, speaking for Toyota and Lexus, where whatever we wholesaled is what we'll retail," Hollis said, according to Automotive News.

"In my experience over 31 years in this industry, when government and others start telling consumers what they must have, consumers start to push back," Hollis said, adding that Toyota "may not move first, but it will move best."

Toyota exec says car shortage will last another year and shoppers may reject EV push

Toyota's head of sales, Jack Hollis, expects the supply crisis to continue for another year and that the industry will never return to pre-shortage norms.

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[Hijinx]

I thought about buying a small car for the gas mileage.
But to be honest the gas mileage on small cars is not that great.

And I can buy a lot of gas with the $20,000 dollars that small car might cost me.

 

[glhs837]

"We dicked around with hydrogen so long we missed the EV boat and now need to make stuff up to explain why almost everyone else is making EVs that sell while our one offering literally had the wheels falling off"
And they STILL say hydrogen is the real deal.

 

[Hijinx]

"We dicked around with hydrogen so long we missed the EV boat and now need to make stuff up to explain why almost everyone else is making EVs that sell while our one offering literally had the wheels falling off"
And they STILL say hydrogen is the real deal.

So was the Hindenburg.

 

[Gilligan]

Wife took her Rav4 in to the PF Toyota dealership for its regular 10K service last week and she said that she was aggressively lobbied by a couple salesmen to sell them her car. She said it didn't look like there were more than 2 or 3 new vehicles on the entire lot!

 

[herb749]

I get messages all the time about the dealer wanting my wife's Honda Accord. Do they have a car to replace it with .?

 

[PrchJrkr]

I thought about buying a small car for the gas mileage.
But to be honest the gas mileage on small cars is not that great.

And I can buy a lot of gas with the $20,000 dollars that small car might cost me.

I'm glad I found my Jetta when I did. Lord only knows how little money I'd have left if I didn't get 45mpg.

 

[Hijinx]

I'm glad I found my Jetta when I did. Lord only knows how little money I'd have left if I didn't get 45mpg.

Remember when VW made a diesel pick up truck that got 50 MPG?
Its wouldn't pass emissions so they stopped making it.

 

[PrchJrkr]

Remember when VW made a diesel pick up truck that got 50 MPG?
Its wouldn't pass emissions so they stopped making it.

So they fudged the numbers on the newer vehicles as the powers that be pressed for even more stringent emissions and got caught. I didn't think the brand would recover in the US market, but I see quite a few VWs on the road every day.

 

[Hijinx]

So they fudged the numbers on the newer vehicles as the powers that be pressed for even more stringent emissions and got caught. I didn't think the brand would recover in the US market, but I see quite a few VWs on the road every day.

My daughter bought one and found out to her dismay that it had to have premium gas.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

So they fudged the numbers on the newer vehicles as the powers that be pressed for even more stringent emissions and got caught. I didn't think the brand would recover in the US market, but I see quite a few VWs on the road every day.

VW wasn't the first caught. I think everyone of the heavy duty guys (CAT, Detroit Diesel, etc.) have been caught at one point. They were programing their ECUs to recognize when it was being tested so it would go to the parameters that allowed it to pass testing.

 

[herb749]

My daughter bought one and found out to her dismay that it had to have premium gas.

My DIL had a Jetta. Finally moved on because it was hard to find a mechanic to fix it.

 

[Gilligan]

Remember when VW made a diesel pick up truck that got 50 MPG?
Its wouldn't pass emissions so they stopped making it.

We had two of them in our sales fleet back when I was in the landscape construction business. Fueled them from the same pump out back of the nursery where we fueled the back hoes. ;-p They really did get 50 mpg....wouldn't carry more than about 200# in the bed though.

 

[PrchJrkr]

We had two of them in our sales fleet back when I was in the landscape construction business. Fueled them from the same pump out back of the nursery where we fueled the back hoes. ;-p They really did get 50 mpg....wouldn't carry more than about 200# in the bed though.

They must've been non-turbo. I've noticed a few times that when mine creates too much boost, it'll go into limp mode, which just disables the turbo. It's like driving my old '66 Beetle with a 1300cc motor all over again.