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Originally Posted by lawguy85
False. All sedan sales are down. ALL. Ford/GM just had less market share so it had a disproportionate effect on them.
Typed/deleted a bunch of ad hominems, realized it's pointless. The new normal is baseless arguments, best way to combat is just post facts and go.
Unrelated, tax cuts were $157M in value to GM thus far, tariffs cost them $1BN. These are facts. Literally all the other nonsense being spouted is baseless opinion formed off emotion/political cheerleading. I don't expect any of you to be real with yourselves, so flame on.
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IMO, it would have happened anyways, as small cars have never been profitable vs the Japanese gov't subsidized auto industry.
I also think Trump's Tariffs are the straw that broke the camel's back at both GM and Ford. It pushed these cars into the red and it just doesn't work anymore.
So the strategy is to just let the Japanese and Koreans have the car market. US automakers are out. They make far more money selling vehicles that cost $35k+, and they just can't afford to compete.
The writing has been on the wall for decades. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
And it shouldn't be a surprise that tariffs are going to cost Americans jobs and financial well being either.