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Originally Posted by Klayman
So, since some of us like some facts:
EU charges 10% on US autos verses our 2.5% on their autos.
Japan has a virtual lock on dealerships, parts and service supply chains making it very expensive for the US auto market to get established. (Or any other auto market)
And....EU is considering lowering that 10% duty now.....wow.
China has no incentive to keep improving quality of anything they make past bare minimum and has a poor trade record.
I know tariffs and trade involve much more but.....
Lets just level the playing field some!
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I have to disappoint you, but GMs failures are not because of EU duty. They don't offer any car besides ATS-V, CTS-V, Camaro and Corvette in Europe. People who buy these 50k€ don't care about the 10% duty that is included in the price.
Even without a duty I doubt that there is actually a demand for a Chevy Cruze or Malibu in europe since GM is just having like no-dealers in europe at all. There is one, ONE single dealer for the whole UK. In Germany we have live 12 dealers for all GM models. It's hilarious how less GM cares about Europe.
Take a look at Ford, they are doing pretty well in Europe with a lot of dealers, special models for the market. The Mustang started from zero to one of the best selling sportscars since the european launch in 2015.