Would be interesting to know why Ford was building in Mexico. Was it labor costs due to unions here? And what is Trump’s take on unions? They used to work building cars, now they get $40/hr for pushing buttons.
But so true, when Trump speaks, things happen.
Just my opinion now, but The Donald may be for real. He could be the Everyman’s Inside guy. He obviously knows where a lot of the skeleton’s are buried.
Heard a stat today that GM makes more cars in Canada than in the US. Because they don’t have to pay for the health care over there.
In the mid 80’s I oversaw a deal to sell 300 GM six cylinder engines to a dealership in Kuwait. Told them and told them that all of that type engine were now being manufactured in Mexico (this was ten years before NAFTA) and warned them that country of origin on the paperwork needed to show that. They seemed to comprehend what I was telling them but when the engines arrived with “Hecho en Mexico” cast into the blocks they threw a fit saying we had cheated them. Mexico has been a major location for the American auto industry for component manufacturing for a very long time.