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Volkswagen announces sneaky plan to get back at Trump
Daily Mail ^ | 04/05/2025 | Ben Shimkus

Posted on 04/05/2025 4:24:10 PM PDT by vespa300

Volkswagen is going to let its customers know just how much President Donald Trump's tariffs will cost Americans.

The German automotive manufacturing giant is reportedly adding a new line item to its vehicle stickers.

Volkswagen will print an 'import fee' on each new car's buying label. Customers will see the exact cost next to the vehicle's added features prices, fuel efficiency estimations, and crash test ratings.

The official sticker — required by law for pricing transparency and found on every new vehicle — will clearly spelling out just how much of the price hike is a direct result of Trump’s tariffs.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: banvolkswagen; buyamerican; volkswagen; volkswagon
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To: vespa300

Ford sells almost twice as many F Series Trucks than all of VW sales. I will never own a VW. They are junk and horrible to work on.


61 posted on 04/05/2025 6:20:14 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I drive one and actually like it. but its a 2003 I paid 150 dollars for.

best TDI I’ve owned. “only” 315,000 miles on it.


62 posted on 04/05/2025 6:33:19 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: cableguymn
Yeah. TDI is nice. Can't fault you. 300K? Yours is still a baby. 👍

63 posted on 04/05/2025 6:42:25 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

my last one had 600,000.. I am to cheap to do the timing belts so as long as I have a second one, I just drive um till the belt snaps and crush them.

Thats what killed the 600K one.


64 posted on 04/05/2025 6:45:00 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: vespa300
They've always been, "Hitler cars," to me. The company, like Bayer, Fanta and other 3rd Reich legacy companies should have been eradicated, root and branch, in 1945.

In my youth, I thought it ironic that within 20 years of the end of the war, a megalomaniac's, "people's car," had become so overwhelmingly popular with the,"peace and love," flower children.

As I've grown older, it makes perfect sense. They were really on the same team all along.

65 posted on 04/05/2025 6:52:27 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: cableguymn
Timing belt is not too hard to do. Be a shame to let her die for want of a timing belt.

That's why the old Corollas are so tough: steel timing belt, and non-interference engine.

66 posted on 04/05/2025 6:55:38 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
steel timing CHAIN, LOL. Shame on me.

67 posted on 04/05/2025 6:56:58 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Lackawanna is a problem too

This one has its done at 280k Itll last to 600


68 posted on 04/05/2025 7:18:50 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: vespa300
Volkswagen will print an 'import fee' on each new car's buying label. Customers will see the exact cost next to the vehicle's added features prices, fuel efficiency estimations, and crash test ratings.

That is to show people the reason they will never want to purchase any more Volkswagens.   That is not sneaky at all.   Volkswagen jumped the shark when they discontinued the Type 1 Beetle and the Super Beetle, to pass-off the weird thing they call the A5 Beetle.

69 posted on 04/05/2025 7:18:59 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: vespa300

Volkswagon makes some of the worst junk in the industry. Only fools would buy it.


70 posted on 04/05/2025 7:20:28 PM PDT by Revel
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To: vespa300
Explain to me why I would want a piece of crap VW.

Car-Reliability-Chart

71 posted on 04/05/2025 8:09:53 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I know the new one has four headlights that are bright as the sun..
I always give them the high beams.


72 posted on 04/06/2025 4:28:32 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships)
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To: vespa300

Repair bills for Volkswagen are at the top of the list. This once reliable company has become the Jaguar of German cars.


73 posted on 04/06/2025 5:50:18 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vespa300

Keep digging, Europe, keep digging...


74 posted on 04/06/2025 5:55:19 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla

Note to the DM: Is this the best you’ve got??


75 posted on 04/06/2025 5:55:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: vetvetdoug

More like the Lada...


76 posted on 04/06/2025 5:56:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: AlaskaErik

I noted that Jaguar is so bad it isn’t even on the list


77 posted on 04/06/2025 6:04:02 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vespa300

Volkswagen is good at being sneaky, as shown in their little diesel conspiracy not so very long ago, plus their cars/engines just aren’t that good.


78 posted on 04/06/2025 6:41:10 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: vespa300

No problem beat the import fee buy American.


79 posted on 04/06/2025 8:20:27 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: HamiltonJay

I love my Genesis, and would gladly pay the tariff, OTOH, Volkswagon is a POS company with POS products...


80 posted on 04/06/2025 12:59:52 PM PDT by nikos1121
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