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Trump May Have Won, But Ford Is Still Moving Its Small-Car Production to Mexico
New York Magazine ^
| November 16, 2016
| Charley Lanyon
Posted on 11/16/2016 5:46:17 AM PST by monkapotamus
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To: Fai Mao
Hyundai are made in Alabama.
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posted on
11/16/2016 6:39:44 AM PST
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: snarkytart
yes EPA regulation on some of these auto companies has to go.
To: Alberta's Child
He (DJT) hasnt addressed anything yet.
Regarding rolling back on the EPA regulations?
Why, Johnny Ringo. You are indeed mistaken again.
To: Alberta's Child
This is crony capitalism at its worst. And this is why I have no problem with a company like Ford building cars in Mexico. If they’re going to have to deal with a sh!tty, corrupt, Third World government, they might as well deal with the one in Mexico City that costs less than the one in Washington.
Is it your assumption that nothing is going to change?
104
posted on
11/16/2016 6:42:51 AM PST
by
JayAr36
(Call Caterpillar to get the bulldozer ready. Swamp cleaning coming.)
To: OKSooner
I’d like to see a next generation Bronco based on the original style.
105
posted on
11/16/2016 6:43:14 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Resettozero
106
posted on
11/16/2016 6:44:19 AM PST
by
gymbeau
(America...already becoming great again, and thank goodness!)
To: pepsi_junkie
Driving down costs is always a good thing, but if we can do that so can the Mexican government.
So, I think there is a psychological impact of a tariff. Start low and threaten high.
A repeal and renegotiate NAFTA is also a way to achieve balance.
But I am adamant that we want ALL of our manufacturing jobs and products here. If they weren’t a benefit, Mexico wouldn’t want them there.
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posted on
11/16/2016 6:44:38 AM PST
by
xzins
To: Alberta's Child
Don’t confuse ‘em with the facts.
To: JayAr36
No, it's not. I'm hoping a lot is going to change. But that doesn't mean Ford should put a strategic initiative that has been years in the making on hold just because something MIGHT change here in the U.S.
No company leader with half a brain is ever going to rely on U.S. political decisions when running his company.
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posted on
11/16/2016 6:46:08 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
To: wally_bert
Yeah. That would be pretty cool.
110
posted on
11/16/2016 6:47:23 AM PST
by
OKSooner
(Geno's is a tourist trap.)
To: Eric Pode of Croydon
All the cars in my driveway are made in the USA, under Japanese or German management, using non union FREE
labor. Don't let the communist labor unions dictate terminology.
111
posted on
11/16/2016 6:50:51 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
(My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.)
To: monkapotamus
112
posted on
11/16/2016 6:52:27 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!! TRUMP WINS!!!!)
To: Gamecock
I’m considering Volvo even though it is a bit of drive.
At least one guy I know is applying to get out of here.
113
posted on
11/16/2016 6:52:44 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: SoothingDave
Dont confuse em with the facts.
The facts? Perhaps.
The only facts? Not by a long shot.
Some here are posting like the Ford move to Mexico is a game of checkers when it isn't. At least one chessmaster is beginning work on a solution to the Ford problem as we speak.
To: Fai Mao
“Ford needs to move its production to a non union state and cut ties with the UAW.”
NEWS FLASH : Michigan IS as ‘right to work’ state now!
115
posted on
11/16/2016 6:55:41 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Long live Yoga Pants!)
To: Resettozero
Until such time as the regulatory climate changes, companies will do what is necessary to survive. Extreme tariffs will only make small cars unaffordable.
To: Alberta's Child
Well the first step is to scrap the CAFE regulations.
117
posted on
11/16/2016 6:59:34 AM PST
by
xp38
To: Buckeye McFrog
uhhh....hes not the President yet. What are these silly facts that you speak of to get in the way of a good left-wing narrative here, comrade? Everything is Trump's fault.
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posted on
11/16/2016 7:01:14 AM PST
by
NYRepublican72
(Radical Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen is "Ready for Hillary!" Are you too?)
To: xzins
But I am adamant that we want ALL of our manufacturing jobs and products here. If they werent a benefit, Mexico wouldnt want them there. Tariffs alone won't do it. Here's a real world story that I will share to illustrate why I say that.
I was at a shipbuilder in California getting a tour. They are the last shipbuilder left in the state. As we walked through the yard, they brought us to a paint shop. They told us that the environmental regulations in California were so tough that they had to build a multi-million dollar facility to spray paint their parts, with filters and controlled air sources and self contained runoff and all that. In other yards I've seen, it's a shed and I said so. Guy walking us through the yard said "yup, that's why nobody build ships or aircraft in California anymore".
California is the extreme case. But over time the nation has been following it into manufacturing graveyard thanks to federal level regulations getting ever more California-like. We can put crushing tariffs on products but some industries will just go out of business because the capital needed to comply with these onerous regulations if they moved their operations back to the US is prohibitive.
To: SoothingDave
Extreme tariffs will only make small cars unaffordable.
Make the small Fords in South Carolina?
Do you really think Ford management has been ignoring the very real possibility that DJT might be elected President and that a revamp of their plans might be necessary?
Even bad management can usually see the writing on the wall.
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