How many US car manufacturer CEOs endorsed Trump? I'm betting a lot.
Good, maybe they'll realize nobody wants cars being as complete as AAA video game titles... Aka overpriced shit that's half assed with loads of issues.
Don't forget their hurtling towards the subscription model. You pay for all the features, then pay monthly to be able to use them.
The only bright side is that you'll be able to find hacks that enable them all on piratebay.
What, you don’t want to update every week? Sure, some of them brick you, but.. it’s worth it for the new icons right?!?!
This might be the best thing to happen to Americans in a long time and it’s the result of shitty anti consumer US policy 😂 at long last I might be able to buy a Toyota helix
I'm an American.. The US deserves this. Glad this is happening.
God I fucking hate stealerships. If car dealer cartels in the US as a concept die as a result of this era of idiocy we’re in, that’s a pretty great silver lining.
Such a weird, American-only practice, like with American health insurance. The whole country is a scam, jeez.
Want wasn't it regean that made it a law you couldn't buy directly from the manufacturer because he was buddies with people who owned major dealerships. And it just stuck since then.
He also imposed an import tax on motorcycles because Harley Davidson was deathly afraid that riders would rush out to purchase a Japanese bike that didn't drip oil everywhere and reliably starts when you press the button.
Regulations were put in place to prevent manufacturers from opening their own stores right next to the dealers they worked with. Dealers assume some risk when they take on inventory. Apparently it’s not like a bookstore where any unsold copies just go back to the publisher. It’s still a flimsy justification though and enshrined these middlemen who then enshittified everything. Worse, in some cases manufacturers are entirely prevented from selling direct, even if they don’t work with dealerships. It’s too much.
When all you want to do is sell vastly more expensive but quality poor versions of last century's product, you should be afraid. American automakers have had the government prop up their manufacturing for decades leaving the rest of the world open to create this century's products.
Oh man...I am American but I yearn for the day when I can buy a pickup with a full bed the size of a Daewoo Lanos
second this.
that slate truck/suv is lookin good tho even with the bitty bed. jay leno’s garage youtube just did a video about it
American free market advocates when the market is free:
Nothing is more of a hoax than the concept of the "American Free Market."
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Freedom of speech.
Freedom of information.
The hoax that we have the best anything.
I could go on. Americans are massively deluded into thinking they're special and our country is amazing because they've never set foot outside of it. Even our internet feed is radically tuned towards isolationism. We are slightly above the "communist" countries that so many people in the US decry for building great firewalls or cutting their people off from the outside world.
Anyone who's ever traveled and opened up their youtube account in another country's airport even would know just how limited our vision of the world really is, and how much our news and speech is controlled.
“It’s bad for consumers” is one of those phrases that’s been misused so often I’m amazed these cunts still try to use it with a straight face. It’s like “I’m not racist, but” in terms of phrases that are widely understood to mean their direct opposite.
They’ll stop using it when people stop falling for it.
I’m not sure anyone actually does fall for it per se; it’s one of those lies that literally everyone knows is a lie, but CEOs and corrupt politicians need it to be true in order to justify what they want to do next so they have to go through the process of saying it first.
You must have the pleasure of not knowing those people, then. A lot of people genuinely still believe in trickle-down economics and the like.
They are collectively known as "Fucking Stupid"
Good.
good
FAFO.
I really hope American car manufacturers go bankrupt. American cars are the worst. The rest of the world has better cars.
American manufacturers (GM, Tesla, Ford) only make up a minority of sales here. The majority of car sales are manufacturers from "the rest of the world."
You can't even buy a Toyota truck with a decent bed length though.
GOOD
Ah, the "American dream". Competition. Sadly only if it is competition not just lobbying power.
They missed the EV push in the 90' by GM, in the 2010' by Tesla and now once again. They would never change without market pressure.
I see we're in the "find out' stage of FAFO. Well all the other industries in the Us are imploding, we might as well do the auto industry too. You auto workers are welcome to pull up a stump in front of this nice flaming trashcan I am warming my hands to.
At least for the last year, the only thing that has tempered Donald's worst impulses is markets.
So in a way, these kinds of movements and deals are essential to international security.
Would you like a buggy whip with your gas guzzler, Sir?
You can't legally drive these cars in the US. They will be confiscated or turned around. I wish I could have a Chinese car... Also... It's crazy to think if you bought an EV from China with the EV credit from last year you would have a car for 3k...
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