krigo666 comments on Mexico unveils the cargo version of its light truck that it will begin selling next year for about $10,000. The Mexican government has been leading project development.

Mexico unveils the cargo version of its light truck that it will begin selling next year for about $10,000. The Mexican government has been leading project development. (www.electrive.com)

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[–] krigo666@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago (1 child)

They should export, or licence to fabricate, to other continents.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 112 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine how great if Mexico became an auto export giant by just making one reasonable normal EV

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[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Honestly a lot of cars are already made in Mexico, just badged with an American logo

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

the car parts that are made in Mexico are almost always higher quality than at the american plants, too

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Or VW. They’ve be making licensed Jettas and Golf for decades, not to mention all the classic Beetles for so long.

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[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 4 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

I know Brazil also makes a ton of VWs, or at least they used to. My old mk4 Golf was built there

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 12 hours ago (1 child)

Brazil made all cars for its domestic market and put massive tariffs on anything else. So they ran local factories for Ford, GM and VW all with domestic variants. I don’t think they really ever sold outside South America though, or maybe even outside Brazil. There are some weird, neat variants from there that I’d love to get a chance to own at some point, mostly VW car-trucks.

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

They also build FIAT cars. They carried and uodated a few 90's models well into the 2000's and design a few models that made their way to the EU market, with minimal changes.

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 7 hours ago

Yeah I’d forgotten that Fiat sold its designs to anyone. That’s where the Lada Riva came from too.

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[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can imagine a future in which these become more common in the US than ridiculous US trucks.

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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 2 points 20 hours ago

Tyey are too insecure to drive small cars

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago*

I can’t, especially not with the chicken tax and the right wing’s apparent need to burn diesel fuel to prove how patriotic they are.

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