yakko 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.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 109 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 39 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 12 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 11 points 20 hours 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 3 points 11 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 4 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 2 hours ago

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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