Posted on 09/27/2017 7:15:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday an unnamed foreign leader told him at the United Nations last week that the country would soon announce plans to build or expand five automobile industry factories in the United States.
"I just left the United Nations last week and I was told by one of the most powerful leaders of the world that they are going to be announcing in the not too distant future five major factories in the United States, between increasing and new, five," Trump said in a speech on tax reform in Indianapolis. He added the factories were in the automotive industry.
Trump did not name the country or its leader. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and 12 other leaders in New York at the U.N. General Assembly meeting last week, but did not meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel who was in Germany ahead of an election.
Automakers in Japan and Germany have both announced investments in the United States this year, with companies coming under pressure from Trump’s bid to curb imports and hire more workers to build cars and trucks in the U.S.
Investments to expand U.S. vehicle production capacity also reflect intensified competition for market share in the world’s most profitable vehicle market....
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Either Toyota or a German manufacturer. I really wish Toyota would bring some of their diesel trucks into the US market.
an unnamed foreign leader...
The LEAST his/her parents could have done was given them a name :)
i’m here all week, or until Jim zots me for bad jokes...
My first guesses, too. But maybe South Korea?
Probably going to build nothing but EVs at all five factories. Time to end use of petroleum, right?
Oh, my.
That hurts.
;-)
LMAO. Hillary didn’t have a name until Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest when she was six years old, right?
It’s Toyota.
lol
I was hoping it was Subaru. The factories will need accountants, and may even I’d be able to get an employee discount.
If I were Hyundai and KIA, I would move production to the United States to protect it from North Korean attacks.
I want an 8 cylinder diesel hybrid long bed pickup. Power and economy.
I know 4 people just in my circle of work crew buds that would buy one. Right this instant they would order one sight unseen.
I simply don’t understand why Toyota doesn’t make it happen yesterday?
Ahhhh, good thinking...I forgot about South Korea.
Japan/Toyota
No, I have no inside info, but that’s my hunch and I’m sticking with it for now! No one from German leadership would have been telling President Trump anything like this, they hate him.
Not German, not Korean.
My bet is on Honda and Toyota.
Honda has 12 factories and Toyota has six here in the U.S.
Hyundai/Kia each have one, with Hyundai having an additional heavy industries plant.
VW, BMW, and Mercedes each have one plant here.
Trump did not meet with Merkel, so highly doubtful it's a German manufacturer.
lol
Our good friends at the EPA are the reason we have none of the newer and older diesels on the roads. The enviroweanies would shriek and howl if we started importing or making them ourselves.
The EPA makes it too expensive for manufacturers to certify models with limited sales.
We bought an HJ-75RV new from Japan in 1985. Base price with 4 liter, 6 cyl diesel, delivered to Mombasa, Kenya, was US $10,500. We added an 8,000# winch, 1,100 kg rear axle, dual fuel tanks, factory roof rack, seat belts and a radio. Range was 1400 km/960 miles. These options brought the price to $11,500. We were allowed to import 10% in spare parts with the vehicle, so we ordered springs, shocks, injectors, etc. Total delivered price was $12,700.
If we'd registered it in Kenya we would have had to pay US $76,000 in Duty & Sales Tax. (one was 150% and the other was 240% - compounded!) We registered it in Uganda for $4,500 Duty & Taxes.
Awesome vehicle! We averaged 17.6 mpg over 50,000+ km. Highway was 19.6 mpg. Worst we ever got was 15.5 mpg, pulling a heavy trailer loaded with 3/4 ton cement, in the rainy season over 300 miles of remote Uganda dirt roads at altitudes of 4500 to 5500 feet.
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