RE:New car salesWith a recession coming (if it's not already here) dealers were going to sell fewer cars over the next year anyway. It comes down to the math - if they sell fewer cars but do so at a much higher profit margin than normal (customers can't haggle and the cars are marked up more) they can do fine through the recession. In other words, there's no compelling incentive to solve the problem quickly (nor for manufacturers to pay more for chips to maintain production). Higher prices for cars are likely to prevail for quite a while.