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BrianTheEVGuy

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3. American mega-corporations are lazy and entitled
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 04:43 PM
Aug 2024

Rather than build excellent, compelling and competitive products at a good price, they keep churning out the same ancient designs (most US automaker V-8 designs date from the 1950s and body on frame truck platforms date to the 1960s) shoddy quality, high prices and gimmicks rather than innovation, quality, and so on.

They rely on tariffs to trap working Americans with heavy indebtedness for their shoddily built crap that guzzles gas and saddles us with high repair bills requiring parts marked up astronomically.

They had the chance to learn their lesson when the Japanese and Koreans invaded, but they’ve figured out that spending money on lobbying is far cheaper than developing and selling products that are not complete dog 💩.

Eventually BYD will enter the market (probably via Mexico, where Ford and GM make most of their products and key components like engines) and absolutely demolish them. Then GM and Ford will demand more taxpayer bailouts.

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