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What time did you start drinking today if you actually think GM makes 20,000 in profit on the sale of these trucks?I work in a GMC Buick dealer and can tell you you are slightly off in your arithmetic.

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3 hours ago, Adamace1 said:

Was a Big GMfan here. Bought 8 gm vehicles in my 40 ish year lifetime. No more. The way I have been treated by last 3 dealers and GM. I'm done. Spend 50k on a truck and they wouldn't give me a rental car for 9 day repair. Not even a ride home. Considering gm makes at least 20,000 in profit per truck. They were willing to roll the dice and not give a loyal customer a ride home from the dealership when his 8 month old truck needed lifter/engine rebuild. They wouldn't even pay the 44 uber ride to try to keep the promises they made to me. As free shuttles, free rentals when breakdown requires 24 hours. Nope never again will I spend my money on a GM. It had the least reliable motor I've ever owned 5.3, and the most jerky transmission I've ever owned 8 speed. 

dodge been pretty good about this, when my hellcat blower bearings fail they didn't have any rental and the dealer give my brand new ram2500 Cummings diesel, I have the truck for full 2weeks until they replace the blower on my challenger.

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3 hours ago, mjm-1957 said:

What time did you start drinking today if you actually think GM makes 20,000 in profit on the sale of these trucks?I work in a GMC Buick dealer and can tell you you are slightly off in your arithmetic.

Prove it?  I have read many experts say that the 50k to 70k trucks have 20k of profit built into that price.

 

My 2021 silverado was built in Dec 2020 by factory workers that make 2 to 3.00 an hour. I mean really 2 to 3bucks an hour. Then I see GM post record or near record profits as their sales slow. And that's after paying all the warranty claims of fixing all the problems under warranty. Then they have been using billions to tens of billions to develop ev vehicles, all from the portion of the big GM trucks/Tahoe platform. I honestly think it's even more than 20k, now that people are paying sticker price I'm thinking around 25k in profit.

 

I used to work at a huge construction company, and they would buy the fleet trucks through one if the biggest fleet companies. We could get a 38,000 f150 for 18k no questions asked we would get hundreds of them. Ford was the cheapest during the time I worked their. That's 20k off a single cab work truck 4x4. And Ford builds all their Trucks in The USA at union wages and they could drop the price 20k off their cheapest truck class. So GM paying 10 times less ca do the same or better.

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On 4/29/2022 at 5:31 PM, Saso said:

dodge been pretty good about this, when my hellcat blower bearings fail they didn't have any rental and the dealer give my brand new ram2500 Cummings diesel, I have the truck for full 2weeks until they replace the blower on my challenger.

That's good a dealer tries to take care of a customer. 

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