{"id":14872,"date":"2018-03-05T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/sticker-shock-the-state-of-the-american-car-industry\/"},"modified":"2018-03-05T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:41:11","slug":"sticker-shock-the-state-of-the-american-car-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/sticker-shock-the-state-of-the-american-car-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticker Shock: The State Of The American Car Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/03\/05\/590971877\/sticker-shock-the-state-of-the-american-car-industry?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\">Stacey Vanek Smith<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/03\/05\/590971877\/sticker-shock-the-state-of-the-american-car-industry?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/03\/05\/cars-indicator-4137a15fb6ee78ca6cbdd2a3b05330922beba0bc-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"36k\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/03\/05\/cars-indicator-4137a15fb6ee78ca6cbdd2a3b05330922beba0bc-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>        NPR<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RES590988363\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK MEDIAPROMO PRIMARY\" --><\/p>\n<p>The quality of American cars got a lot better after the financial crisis. They got lighter, more efficient and more reliable. And the car business boomed.<\/p>\n<p>But now they&#8217;re getting too expensive. Sticker prices for the SUVs and trucks that Americans love are high enough that manufacturers don&#8217;t have to sell as many vehicles to make money.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not going to last.<\/p>\n<p><em>Music by <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dropelectric.com\/\"><em>Drop Electric<\/em><\/a><em>. Find us: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/planetmoney\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>\/ <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?ref=home#%21\/planetmoney?ref=ts\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to our show on<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/coming-soon\/id1320118593?i=1000395513616&amp;mt=2\"><em> Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pca.st\/tLRP\"><em>PocketCasts<\/em><\/a><em> and <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/one.npr.org\/\"><em>NPR One<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/03\/05\/590971877\/sticker-shock-the-state-of-the-american-car-industry?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sticker Shock: The State Of The American Car Industry\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/03\/05\/590971877\/sticker-shock-the-state-of-the-american-car-industry?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/03\/05\/590971877\/sticker-shock-the-state-of-the-american-car-industry?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/03\/05\/cars-indicator-4137a15fb6ee78ca6cbdd2a3b05330922beba0bc-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"36k\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/03\/05\/cars-indicator-4137a15fb6ee78ca6cbdd2a3b05330922beba0bc-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>        NPR<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RES590988363\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK MEDIAPROMO PRIMARY\" --><\/p>\n<p>The quality of American cars got a lot better after the financial crisis. They got lighter, more efficient and more reliable. And the car business boomed.<\/p>\n<p>But now they&#8217;re getting too expensive. Sticker prices for the SUVs and trucks that Americans love are high enough that manufacturers don&#8217;t have to sell as many vehicles to make money.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not going to last.<\/p>\n<p><em>Music by <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dropelectric.com\/\"><em>Drop Electric<\/em><\/a><em>. Find us: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/planetmoney\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>\/ <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?ref=home#%21\/planetmoney?ref=ts\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to our show on<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/coming-soon\/id1320118593?i=1000395513616&amp;mt=2\"><em> Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pca.st\/tLRP\"><em>PocketCasts<\/em><\/a><em> and <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/one.npr.org\/\"><em>NPR One<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}