Posted on 07/28/2020 9:39:15 PM PDT by Cronos
Safety experts are urging the UK government to exclude American cars from any post-Brexit trade deal.
They say imported vehicles should meet British safety standards for accidents with pedestrians, cyclists and children.
UK PM Boris Johnson has indicated he expects cars to be included in any new transatlantic trade agreement.
But safety campaigners point to a spike of pedestrian injuries and deaths in US road accidents.
The increase is associated with a boom in large SUVs, which have been engineered to protect passengers but not pedestrians
In the UK and Europe, cars are designed to minimise harm to people on foot or on bikes if they are hit by a vehicle. SUVs sold in the UK must meet the standards.
The Parliamentary Advisory Committee on Transport Safety has written to Trade Secretary Liz Truss, saying: “We note that in negotiations covering food safety the USA has argued against accepting higher UK standards. It has sought to characterise these as protectionism.
“We are concerned that pressure for lower safety standards will be applied in negotiations regarding the automotive sector.
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Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council, which represents US carmakers, said cars made there were just as safe as European vehicles.
He told BBC News: "Cars, SUVs and other light trucks that meet US safety standards achieve equivalent safety performance to the safety standards applied in the European Union.
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lol
“Is the outside covered in pillows”?
If we are successful in this negotiation our British bound vehicles will be outfitted on the frontend with collision MyPillow.com!!!
In order to meet their safety standards for pedestrians. Post-collision, they’ll get the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world.
No, actually things like requiring a rubber cover over the leading edge of wings and spoilers, outlawing the “Ears” of Knock-Off wheel nuts, no pop-up headlamps, flush lights, soft face bumpers, specified bumper heights, etc.
Why all the new cars look like crap, and so much alike.
Just like in the U.S.A.!
I frankly cannot think of any American made cars that I would expect to sell well in the U.K.
U.S. companies have had U.K. divisions or partial U.K. company ownership on and off for decades.
Ford and Chrysler in particular.
Long subject to cover, many decades of it.
Overcapacity, Unions, and Gov. Org. meddling are destroying the auto industry world-wide.
Importing “U.S.” made (Partially U.S.made, %$#! globalization!) to the U.K will not really help anyone so should not become an issue.
vehicles will be outfitted on the frontend with collision MyPillow.com!!!
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That’s very funny. I wonder if Mike Lindell will add that to his product line. Just add the promo code “CAR” for a deep discount.
The Mustang sells very well in the UK as is.
You’ve got that right. I think it will be Mike GallaghCar.
PrompCode MikeC!!!
PromoCode!!! I surely wish FreeRepublic offered an EDIT function for the many times we Freepers Fat Key our responses. JimRob!!! Are you listening!
he automotive industry in the United Kingdom is now best known for premium and sports car marques including Aston Martin, Bentley, Caterham Cars, Daimler, Jaguar, Lagonda, Land Rover, Lister Cars, Lotus, McLaren, MG, Mini, Morgan and Rolls-Royce. Volume car manufacturers with a major presence in the UK include Honda, Nissan, Toyota and Vauxhall Motors (subsidiary of Opel, subsidiary of the French automotive company Groupe PSA).[1] Commercial vehicle manufacturers active in the UK include Alexander Dennis, Ford, IBC Vehicles (owned by Groups PSA), Leyland Trucks (owned by Paccar) and London Electric Vehicle Company (owned by Geely).[1]
In 2018 the UK automotive manufacturing sector had a turnover of £82 billion, generated £18.6 billion in value to the UK economy and produced around 1.5 million passenger vehicles and 85,000 commercial vehicles
With the exception of mentally insane Leftists, Americans do not walk on or, into Highways, Freeways, etc...so there is no need for those added costs to consumers making vehicles far more expensive.
If you’re a nutjob and think that you have the right to gather onto a freeway/Highway without consequence and the world revolves around your insanity then you mus live(die) by your insanity.
If you think otherwise you are INSANE and e normals do not need to engage with you. Why? Because you are INSANE.
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Size, power, and body shape can be restricted to help reduce the severity of pedestrian injuries. Even in the US, cars were redesigned some years ago to eliminate hood ornaments and their tendency to cause more severe pedestrian injuries.
“Overcapacity” is always such a tip-off to bogus markets anyway.
If there is overcapacity the free market ought to shake that out. If some investors and players erred by building more market capacity than their products have market appeal, so be it.
Purchasers likely gain from that until competition in the market leads to those with too much capacity to demand needing to reduce their capacity in order to survive.
Think of the children!
In this case it isn’t so much a bogus market, just a downturn in demand due to lower discretionary spending
Plus of course lockdowns against travel and changes in commutes.
More leftist BS. This is not the British Government’s position.
Look at the source, BBC.
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