Well maybe if y’all actually innovated it wouldn’t be such a threat
Or just made cars that don’t break due to wet belts and general poor design choices to make them more disposable… At least in Europe ford used to have a no frills reliable work horse reputation, still see early 2000 transits rusty and abused but clunking along no issue… Then mustang e sat at dealers for repairs cause warranty is outsourced and they themselves can’t get parts.
Need to get their shit in order and make cars that make sense, I won’t want a nice shiny piece of crap that’ll be unrepairable when anything breaks on it.
it’s not even innovation at this point… maybe if they didn’t fucking suck harder than a 10yo alternative
It’s crazy how easy the US had made it for US manufacturers to catch up but they have chosen to do nothing.
Teslas have existed for a decade now and the most viable option is still to wait until the tarrifs on Chinese EVs are dropped.
Tesla isn’t even competitive despite a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs
Good. We can hopefully get affordable EV here.
Right? Like no shit. Competition is good for free markets. Make a better product.
Us automakers only innovation has been 100k SUVs. Fuck off!
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Bring them BYDs to the US. Id buy one.
@Sunshine the Führer of the US threatens US industry waaaay more…
And not enough of our industry “leaders” have realized this because they don’t realize what this really is. They’ve drank their own flavor-aid propaganda about deregulation and subsidies being good. They think Trump’s gonna do great things, that AI is the future, and that Elon Musk is a certified genius. They haven’t caught on, yet, to that we are being tortured to death
Time to bail out Ford, I guess.
Of course Chinese automakers threaten the US industry. Much like Japanese automakers did in the 70s and 80s. And there is a simple reason for that - Chinese cars makers are selling decent quality vehicles for less money than US (& European) automakers. And they’re spearheading electric vehicles while the likes of Ford is actually cutting back on EV commitments.
Meanwhile our idiot dementia-addled president is trying to revive the coal industry.
