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[–] 51 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Honda absolutely has a chance. They’ve got one of the best names in automaking, huge industrial capacity, and also huge capital. They just want to get bailed out like every other car company does rn.

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Then lose. What the fuck do you want from me?

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  • [–] 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    It's not you they're talking to. The whole point of this statement is to fear-monger and get the government to give these assholes huge subsidies to "compete", except these subsidies will go straight to the shareholders.

    Make no mistake, it's just grifters trying to get the last bit of juice before they declare "yeah we're bankrupt, cheerios"

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago*

    Good, I hope all automobile manufacturers go out of business. Fuck cars and fuck the people who make them (this doesnt apply to the workers who actually makes them).

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago

    Maybe they shouldn’t have spent decades fighting electric cars and spending money on stock buybacks

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    He sounds like the CEO of an American car company.

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    Haha. To pad the article length - the writer quotes Redditors. Example

    "It's really infuriating, isn't it? Like, we want these electric cars and if there was a good production … demand would have gone up," one user replied. "I'm ready to buy electric. I'm ready for removing my dependence on oil."

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Didn't another big auto CEO say something similar recently?

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago

    What are they angling for, a bailout? Tariffs?

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    ill allow it since they're also building high-speed rail everywhere and pumping out electric cars over gas cars.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago*

    Make like tire dust and get into my lungs and waterways, bub.

    Fuck cars.

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