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Yes, the country known for driving scooters instead of cars will start buying SUVs that don't even fit the streets in many cities
Vietnam also halted the expansion of McDonald’s because local street food is cheaper and better.
Vietnamese food is the shit
Bahn Mi every day, so fucking good.
*banh mi
But yes, so very delicious. So fresh too.
SUVs won't work in Vietnam, not when you have Grab and scooters everywhere. It might become a rich person thing to drive around in those awful yank tanks but that's hardly a market.
This just sounds like the VN government is just making a nothing deal sound good for Trump. Americans paying tariffs for incoming VN products versus Vietnamese paying nothing for incoming American SUVs? A product that most Vietnamese won't find useful at all?
Ugh.
I want some bread now...
Oops, wrong spelling!
But uh, yeah, I agree, Trump got played, SUVs will take off in Vietnam as well as McDonalds did.
Trump is an actual idiot.
Not like, ad hom insult idiot.
He is just actually an idiot.
He still doesn't understand what a trade balance even is, or that services/digital goods we export aren't part of that number.
He's a spoiled brat that's gotten as far as he has by being an abusive narcissist who csn just buy his way out of everything with daddy's money.
Holy shit yes, one of the best sandwiches in existence
Literally banh mis and other Vietnamese basically street food, pho, stuff like that, is why McDonalds didn't take off.
Vietnam has some truly tasty and cost effective cuisine, and McDonalds was largely only eaten by corpo types just as a flex of how much money they have.
Its less nutritious, less tasty, and more expensive than what the Vietnamese have been eating for 100s, 1000s of years.
bahn mi is a great name for a vietnamese joint at a train station
@groet and American SUVs would break an axle or drive shaft or get stuck in the mud puddles on the rural roads. SUVs are really impractical unless you build your whole infrastructure around them. @Davriellelouna
...what? Being good off-road, or on bad roads, is [supposed to be] the entire point of SUVs.
Edit: Okay, okay, I get it. Language changes and "SUV" doesn't mean what I want it to mean. I'm well aware that I'm No True Scotsman-ing, but that doesn't make me any less mad about it! 😠
A representative sample chosen from among the replies wrote:
SUVs are supposed to be trucks with seats in the cargo area!
All the car-based junk they build these days aren't real SUVs, and shouldn't exist because they're objectively inferior to station wagons and minivans.
Every SUV ought to be an acutally-off-road-capable one, and the only people who should buy them are ones who actually take them off-road.
@grue yeah, so the commercials say. The ones I've driven haven't been particularly better than sedans except higher clearance.. making them more likely to rollover or break axles instead of scrape oil pans.
A truck maybe. Most SUVs are just big chunky road cars.
They're just a classification meant to evade certain regulations to sell worse cars based on a few metrics regarding things like clearance. Given the point is to avoid having to make a decent car...
don’t be surprised when the capitalists see this obvious issue as an “opportunity” for development of bigger streets etc. ie: profit.