Headlines on today's business section of the San Antonio newspaper are "As gas prices rise, Tundras stack up"

They went on to say that as the gas prices hover around $3.61 nationally, the idea of buying a Toyota Tundra that gets 15 miles per gallon isn't appealing. Causing the supply of Tundras to double to a 88-day supply.

Here in San Antonio the Tundra plant was churning out 725 trucks aday. They have cut back to 650 per day.

The paper said that Nissan had a 134 day supply, GM has a 138 day supply, Dodge had 90 day supply. Ford declined to disclose their inventory.

 

wait till the summer hits

 

screw those sorry people who make the poor man pay their prices because they can't get off their a** and work for a living

 

yup, and if you can spend 40k on a new truck you can pay 3.50 a gal

 

Headline News: San Antonio... In a city, with an area population of around 2 million people; San Antonio thought that a new Toyota plant would be the panacea to give everyone in town a job.

Well, now Toyota is reducing manning by 210 jobs. These were temp jobs that Toyota used to possibly screen for full-time hires.

The news also said that in addition to layoffs, truck production slow-downs, there will also be days that no trucks roll off the assembly line.

What is becoming of our economy?

 

I despise this way of thinking, we are just supposed to pony up and pay these inflated prices cause we can? No offense meant to 2500HeavyDuty, but come on we are getting raped on fuel prices and this response if you can afford a 40K truck, you can afford the 4 and 5 dollar fuel for it. The bottom line is these prices are affecting every thing, it all trickles down to everything we eat use and buy. Again I mean no offense to you HD.

 

Damn it was 350 a gal a month ago?

 

At that we are still getting ripped off. Sorry if it came off a bit harsh I did not mean it that way.

 

no offense taken, we both got our own opinions

 

This thread started with Toyota San Antonio announcing that they had a back log of Tundra's... then just a month ago, Toyota announces a lay off...

Now, Toyota in San Antonio announces that they will be shutting the Tundra plant down for 3 months.

Bad news for Toyota.