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Originally Posted by DocWeatherington
They won't care...only things folks can do is prevent dealership markups up to a point.
But your the customer they are the seller. Increase costs will always be absorbed by the customer as at the end of the day any business has a bottom line of overhead costs and stands to make a profit. Tons of suppliers in the background.
The days of massive rebates are gone as manufacturers will not pump out cars in which the demand isnt there and will simply throttle plants. This was a lesson learned with covid
https://www.reuters.com/business/aut...es-2023-02-24/
If the hottest market in the US is trucks and the 3 largest manufacturers are doing it everyone else will follow suit.... Keep supply within demand and have things built to order.
Now in an ideal world if materials costs drop down, they would do price cuts ..one would hope so..but why should they as shareholders care about net profits. Could they pass that to consumers with large discounts ... Idk
Look at Telsa... That burnt a lot of people and messes up vehicle values, lease values, loans.
That 70k car you just bought new yesterday, is worth 60k right off the showroom floor.
Your now 10k in the hole plus interest and the bank won't give two shits neither will the manufacturer. As those that did a lease will fine, the other half that bought 
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I believe what you’re describing is ‘demand destruction’. And yes, prices will continue to climb for the foreseeable future.