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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry (insideevs.com)
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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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[–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

destroyed the reputation of American cars being the best made vehicles in the world.

This was always pure propaganda and if that argument were being made, that downfall would've happened way before the '70s. Like, beginning of the 20th century, at latest.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, they were the best when we were the only ones making them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We never were. Europe was making production, ICE cars decades before Henry Ford told the world that he invented the process

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, shit

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Ford didn't even claim that he invented the automobile. However, he did make the manufacturing process a lot faster, and therefore cheaper, so he was the first to sell them at a price that most people could afford.

    He was also a turbo-racist who Hitler saw as an inspiration, but that's a different subject.

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