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1 posted on 09/20/2016 1:56:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
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**Obviously, it no longer makes “sense” to invest in small car production in America. Most of the news surrounding the move to Mexico addressed the benefit of low-cost labor. According to the Detroit Free Press: “The industry has known for decades that domestic manufacturers struggle to make a profit on small cars.” **

There is Kia assembly plant in Georgia. I guess that is their luxury lane cruiser division.


2 posted on 09/20/2016 1:59:54 PM PDT by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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How come no one mentions GM’s $5 billion investment in Mexico in the last couple years?


3 posted on 09/20/2016 2:00:40 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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I am not completely buying this.

Most of the assembly work on cars these days is done by robots, whether in Detroit, Mexico of Korea.

And foreign manufacturers are making cars here. Granted in non-union plants, but still, at greater cost than they could in other countries.


4 posted on 09/20/2016 2:02:40 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

Why bring this up? As if he gives a sh*t.

He’s probably having a private chuckle.


5 posted on 09/20/2016 2:04:34 PM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA MATTERS)
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F O R D = Fix or Repair Daily.


6 posted on 09/20/2016 2:05:24 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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***Mexican Cars Alert***

If I open a door and see that its made in Burritoville I won’t buy. Ever.


7 posted on 09/20/2016 2:07:22 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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I will never buy another Ford product,and I will call them and tell them just why. What tone deaf idiots.


8 posted on 09/20/2016 2:10:31 PM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight....)
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The amerocentric article misses the point
Mexico has become the hemisphere center for export auto production

Ford is actually late to the game
The Ford’s inquestion will have a large export market far beyond the US


9 posted on 09/20/2016 2:13:06 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hilary is an Ameriphobe)
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To: Kaslin

America is to lazy to be competitive!


11 posted on 09/20/2016 2:21:19 PM PDT by Herman Ball
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To: Kaslin

Great article - thanks.


14 posted on 09/20/2016 2:28:59 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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CAFE standards are well past the point reason. They make about as much sense as Ethanol. We’re downing in Oil.

Check the tailpipe for pollution. Keep the standards reasonable. Weight savings measures are ruining the automotive business.


16 posted on 09/20/2016 2:34:43 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Kaslin; All
Thank you for referencing that article Kaslin. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

As a side note to this thread, please consider the following from related threads.

Patriots beware !

You would never know from these Obama-bashing articles that the USA has a Congress that has the constitutional authority to stop a presidents action’s.

The problem is that both the legislative and executive branches are corrupt, Obama allowing himself to be used as Congress’s “useful idiot,” Obama just one of many such “idiots” in the federal system.

More specifically, Congress is not only letting Obama get away with stealing and exercising legislative branch power imo, but also letting him exercise 10th Amendment-protected state powers that the corrupt feds have stolen from the states.

Corrupt lawmakers are likely letting last-term Obama get away with doing all the unpopular, unconstitutional things that Congress probably wants to do. But by letting Obama do Congress’s dirty work for it, lawmakers are able to keep their voting records clean. And by keeping their voting records clean, lawmakers are able to fool low-information voters into reelecting them. (Patriots need to iron the wrinkles out of the 22nd Amendment. When both legislative and executive branches are corrupt, watch out for unconstitutional actions by last-term presidents.)

Remember in November !

Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs.

Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

19 posted on 09/20/2016 2:50:05 PM PDT by Amendment10
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Focus and C-Max are total junk cars that only a fool would own.

We desperately need for congress to alter the CAFE mileage standard to Ton-Miles per gallon, so that we can get the trash cars off of our highways.
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27 posted on 09/20/2016 3:40:14 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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What’s funny here is that by moving to Mexico Ford can continue to say:

Made in America!


32 posted on 09/20/2016 6:06:17 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: Kaslin

The only Fords I’m interested in still are the F series trucks and the Mustangs.


42 posted on 09/20/2016 8:18:19 PM PDT by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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