Anyone purchase vehicle lately? Our local Honda dealer used to have 100s of new cars on their lot and an overflow lot behind the dealership that had 50-100 more. Now this weekend I counted 4 (four) new cars for sale along with 15 pre-owned. To a passerby you would think they were going out of business. It's been like this for the past five months, but this is the first time they fell under ten new cars available.

So what's the deal, is it the "chip shortage," the port backups, or are the dealers hedging a total market collapse and don't want to be sitting on inventory when people can't afford to purchase a new car?