If American car makers want us to buy American cars…. Maybe they should stop making shitty cars.
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If you are so scared of competition, than fucking be competitive.
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What's too late are these outdated car companies failing to invest sufficient resources into electric car R&D.
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Ford also ended production of their entire line of cars with the exception of the Mustang in 2022 and only makes trucks and SUVs now. They say its because those don't generate enough profit.
If Ford won't serve the market segment, they shouldn't have any say if another company can do so or not. The reason Ford is fighting is because this is the exact pattern that Japanese car makers used in the early 70s during the .... wait for it... oil crisis. Nissan (Datsun), Honda, and Toyota all started with small economy cars and all are recognizable brands demanding large market shares of the American auto market. The irony is that these Japanese auto companies probably employ more Americans making cars than the "American" auto makers which have shifted production to other nations like Mexico, Canada, and China.
If Ford won't produce what Americans want to buy, I'm okay with letting Chinese companies take a shot at it here in the USA.
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Competition from Japanese car manufacturers was the best thing that ever happened to American car buyers. Even if you've never owned a foreign car, the domestic car you drove was better because of it.
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Bye Ford! Maybe next time you could try investing in innovation instead of relying on government protection.
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Fuck off, Ford. Your company did this to itself. You could change course at literally any time.
the rules to this "Capitalist" Free Market are very confusing. If I didn't know better, I would think they just set whatever ideological standard best benefits them in the moment.
meanwhile trump pays billions of taxpayer dollars to cancel solar and windfarm projects so his citizens can pay for the highest diesel prices ever that he caused.
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It is too late.
Your leadership failed to show innovation that would adequately meet the challenge of Chinese imports.
You should have been fired years ago.
Free market absolutists, amirite?
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China uses capitalism, it's a critical hit.
US uses capitalism, it's still confused and hurt itself.
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