Posted on 03/30/2025 1:25:46 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Re: 2 - more people will if cars are made that people will buy and people believe the quality is good.
Many of the tariffs will not go away.
Yeah, I know. Our goobermint at work, again.
Trump should stop giving these interviews like this one to NBC News unless it’s live where we can verify what is said.
Don’t buy the foreign cars! That’s the damn point! duh
In the long run it’s good for the country to have more manufacturing here. But in the short run some people won’t be able to buy the car they want because the price has gone up, at least for new cars. If they are lucky they may be able to find a used car of that make.
I’ll stick with my 2014 Ram. Oil changes and breaks and tires. No repairs in 100k miles
https://allamerican.org/research/auto-manufacturing-report/
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/06/ten-most-american-cars/
https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2025-02/MY2024-AALA-Alphabetical-2.4.25.pdf
(Toyota Camry and Honda Accord are the top 2 most American Made cars along with the whole Tesla fleet)
Tariffs can always be removed later, but the $5 trillion+ invested back into the country is much harder to undo.
I always joked that Ford’s Research and Development department is the American public.
Now that egg prices are coming down, the left is moving on to another prediction that’s not going to come true.
Yes my Explorer engine is a beast. But they really made the trannys horribly. Even yours had to be replaced by the prior owner. I am trying to fix mine myself. My Expedition 5.4L V8 has a bad timing chain like so many others (along with many F150s with that engine spec). That job is a doozy. Meanwhile my first car, a 2002 Subaru is still going fine.
Critics either miss the point or pretend to.....
One of the goals of president Trump’s tariff strategy is to do exactly that - to make American built autos and trucks the more attractive choice.
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