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The intended purpose of this discussion is to track price changes, tariff news and car related impacts.
As usual this topic has devolved into the same people bickering with a wave of flags and counter flags. Slow mode is now set while we clean up.
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Good news, somebody at the Commerce department realized that Reunion and St Pierre et Miquelon are actually part of France.
La Reunion’s regional president Huguette Bello had blasted Trump as “ignorant” on learning of the initial tariff rate Wednesday, while Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon MP Stephane Lenorman attacked “incompetence in the American administration.”
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I think if you ask anyone, they will agree that we need to cut waste in our government. However, firing career professionals across the board who used to work for Health and Human Services (HHS), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Department of Education (DOE), National Security Council (NSC), and other important government agencies is not the way to go.
My wife works in the health care field, on the admin side. She used to partner with folks in the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) agency. That’s all on hold since some of those folks are not even sure if they will have a job tomorrow. Guess who is going to suffer? Retirees and low income folks who need care.
Can someone anwer this? Please don’t share numbers from DOGE.
Back to talking about tariffs on cars. 
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Then there is this:
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/05/musk-trump-tariffs-navarro-tesla
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So which manufacturer raises prices next do you think?
And how does Stellantis handle it since they were already up shits creek?
Stellantis has a surplus of vehicles. They could get through summer easily.
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Most of them will raise prices.
I don’t want to go off topic again, but I am sure there is a more efficient/effective way of restructuring the government.
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Dealers are already playing harder to get. I’ve had one dealer tell me that “we’re going to hold on to these cars and sell them for more in a couple of months” and another straight up said next week they’re “raising prices” … no idea if customers are trying to scramble and buy before the run up.
My etron offer went up on carvana from three months ago, from $29,400 to $36,600, but carmax went down. 
Anybody else think automobiles are going to get an exemption?
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@littleviolette - Are you guys doing anything about idiots flagging posts for fun? I read that post and there was nothing there that broke any rules (though the quote above is the part of it only). At least unblock “see post” button while you figuring this out.
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I didn’t even get to see it. Admins should see who flags posts the most and if not qualified for a flag after a few should get a suspension etc. I’m not for anyone getting flagged beyond the obvious personal attacks etc. this is the internet everyone gets to have an opinion as long as it’s within community standards. This whole flag thing is annoying and both sides of arguement seem to be abusing it.
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Flagging posts is the 2nd worst thing that happened to leasehackr.
The first worst thing is making @bumboola a TH /s
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Man, take me back to 2019 LH.
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Kind of reminds of only bar in the town I grew up in. It still looks the same, they serve the same drinks, the porch is still sketchy as hell…..but the clientele has changed.
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We should all collude and flag your post here:
Economy prediction... What's yours? - #2 by li8625?
So, future generations of users will see a very highly rated post but have no clue what you wrote.
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It’s a badge of honor. 
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I have a crazy idea! Since BMW US (importer) is wholly owned by the the German entity BMW AG, I wonder if there’s a clever way for them to just lower invoice price to reduce the impact of the tariff?
For example, instead of paying $60K to import an $80K iX, BMW AG would reduce the import cost to $10K, so the tariff would be only $2,500 instead of $15,000.
The profit would stay in the US entity, but accounting wise, as a wholly-owned subsidiary the P&L boost in the US still helps the German parent company financials in the same way. Alternatively, BMW US can just pay a “license fee” or something to repatriate the money back to Germany, etc.
There’s going to be so much clever financial engineering by MBAs and CPAs of these international conglomerates to avoid paying these tariffs.