Posted on 11/04/2025 10:25:07 AM PST by Miami Rebel
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Peugeot..... N’uff said. No, wait.....”Fix it again, Tony”
Jamie O'Neal started trying to find Stellantis back in 2005.
I hope they have come to their senses about the EV fairy tale.
We also need to back end infrastructure starting with mining. If we still send raw ore out of country just to buy back billets we are still at the mercy of countries that hate us. I know, it will take time.
| Pres Trump Term | Company | Country | Year | Amount | Key Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-2021 | Toyota | Japan | 2017 | $13B | AL & KY plants; USMCA & tariff avoidance |
| Hyundai | South Korea | 2017 | $3.1B | US ops expansion; steel tariffs & USMCA | |
| Volkswagen | Germany | 2019 | $800M | Chattanooga EV expansion | |
| Honda | Japan | 2017 | $476M | AL & OH upgrades; tariff response | |
| 2025+ | Stellantis | Netherlands/Italy | 2025 | $13B | Midwest expansion; 5 new models, 5,000 jobs |
| Hyundai | South Korea | 2025 | $26B | 1.2M vehicles/yr + $5B steel mill | |
| Honda* | Japan | 2025 | $2.5B | Civic Hybrid to IN; 90% local prod. shift | |
| Nissan* | Japan | 2025 | $1.1B | Sentra to MS; retooling & capacity shift | |
| Volkswagen* | Germany | 2025 | $2.8B | Chattanooga & Audi US expansion |
* Denotes companies shifting production from foreign plants (e.g., Japan, Mexico, Canada) to U.S. facilities to avoid 25% import tariffs. These investments include retooling, capacity expansion, and job creation in the USA.
Good news also because they cancelled the parts hub and EV battery factory that Prickster bragged about coming to Belvidere. Instead they’ll be making good old ICE vehicles like they always have!
Suck on that Fatboi.
I actually feel sorry for the car manufacturers that went EV. The Dims pressured them into it. In many ways the gas car makers who went EV are the victims, not the aggressors.
SOTUS is going to decide about POTUS tariff authority. So hold your celebrations for now.
They are doing very poorly and have been for 5 years.
I expect them to go under in a couple more years.
I hope the new leaders have a better vision.
Is there any news they will start building reliable vehicles?
Jeep Curse.
Every Company past Kaiser that owned Jeep has gone bankrupt and absorbed by someone else.
Now, if they could only build a decent car...
They’ve run Jeep into the ground.
A crap product, and now insanely over-priced.
That looks like $62-63B in auto investment. Thousands of direct & spinoff jobs. & taxes paid...
When it comes to buying a car the customer has lost a lot of his power. For the last fifteen or twenty years all helpless seemed to care about was the MONTHLY number. In my recent experience the dealers couldn’t care less what the customer wants and doesn’t want.
So I bought a three thousand dollar 2009 beater from my mechanic (who worked on it all its life) and called it a day.
Growing pains with new engine designs are legendary. Software developers are not ashamed
to license technology from other companies. Chrysler has done it before when the licensed a
Volkswagen engine for the Plymouth Horizon.
It’s called shooting oneself in the foot, after aiming carefully.
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