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Originally Posted by Scotsman
Guys, you don't get it. Zetsche basically said the SAME thing Lutz said without making it sound like a doomsday prophecy (which I must say Lutz is quite good at), he basically said the consumer will receive a return on their more expensive investment in the price of the car being higher than what it is today, not just saying, "well yeh, it's really gonna blow for the customer because they can only expect to pay more for cars in the future because of the greater cost of developing and implementing fuel saving technologies into cars". You can't give customers half the picture, you have to give them the big picture.
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C'mon Scotsman, don't be roped in, man:(....that's not telling consumers the "whole picture"; that's sugar-coating it! The price of gas is going to go up: we all know that. So,
at best the whole "return on investment" is going to be nothing, in which case the consumer ends up paying more on both fronts. More to get the 'better' car, and more spent on expensive gas. Ideally, gas stays the same, and only the price of the 'better' cars goes up. That's the only scenario where what Dieter Zestche says would be true. But since we know that's not going to happen, it would probably be cheaper for the consumer to just pay more for gas (An idea which Lutz happens to support, btw).
So, no - Lutz isn't telling the whole picture. But niether is the German. If anything, you could argue what Lutz is saying has more truth to it, than Zetsche's comments. But I won't
...but...besides this instance, which I concede the point, and agree that Lutz makes things sound pretty bad here - what else has he said that sounded like a "doomsday" prophecy?
All the above with much
to you, Scotsman, I'm not flaming you!
