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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Yes I think that's the part where you have to, you know, compete or whatever.

[–] mriguy 57 points 6 months ago

“We hear you, American consumer! You say you want a sub-$40k, small, basic EV. So here’s another luxury SUV/pickup truck/yacht crossover starting at $90,000.”

[–] KnitWit 34 points 6 months ago

They’ll just ban them from being imported. Far cheaper to pay off some politicians than it is to compete or whatever. Kinda like the tariffs on the solar panels ‘flooding the market’ they just announced.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

You have to be capitalistic, no not like that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Nooooo, you have to buy local, get our new Chevro-laid Mountain Dew 16x16 for only 250k (Tips not included)

[–] workerONE 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's difficult to compete with Chinese companies that operate at a loss and are subsidized by the Chinese government.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

Fucking lol. Good thing we don’t subsidize ANYTHING AT ALL and never export anything either. Boy. You’d have to be EVIL to want your country to have AFFORDABLE CARS. What’s next, AFFORDABLE HOUSING?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why can't we subsidize American carmakers more?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

We do. They just send the windfall to exec salary and shareholders rather than to tax paying customers.