So, it's vital that we allow US car manufacturers to continue selling us exorbitantly priced cars, loaded with software subscriptions and spyware, unchecked? OK, got it, we're on it y'all!
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Until they stop charging $100,000 for a 1 ton truck or $30,000 for an entry level car they can fuck right off.
Just give me a little corolla with crank windows and a EV motor. I don't need some sort of futuristic spacecraft. Give it the exact same model as the cheapest gas vehicle, just give me electric, that's all I want and it seems like they are too stupid to figure it out.
US automakers are afraid that BYD is going to prove that a LOT of Americans don't actually want McMansions on wheels.
If you only support the free market when it works for you, you don't support free markets, you're just a bad weather socialist.
"We need to convert all cars to electric ASAP to save the planet!"
"-Wait, not like that!"
Seriously though, when I visited China recently, I was blown away by how many cool cars are there. In the US we have like 3 companies that own the entire market of similar vehicles.
Tip: stop only producing big ass models that have high margins. It's like the only thing they learned from the great recession was that they would be bailed out by the government. People do not want to spend $50k on a car.
I’ll support this only if the us automakers promise not to export their oversized and poorly built emotional support vehicles. Because the US automakers by their own admission would only be able to survive because of US government support and, I don’t want to have wanky yank tank’s converting more children to homogeneous paste in my country.
USA: Big fan of free markets until communists enter the ring.
Chinas economy is closer to a single party than communist. Their economy, while heavily steered by that single party and the government shares in ownership of production (socialism), is likely more capitalist than the US. If you can make it faster or cheaper then go for it. They don’t enforce IP rights that hand monopolies to big companies. There are not laws that lock in outdated business models via cronyism.
They need competition. But the imported cars are being heavily subsidized by China to build the market.
Maybe let the tiny cars in? Because there's minimal competition there at the moment and people would buy the heck out of a cheap small car. Maybe will push market in right direction
They're all "LeT tHe MaRkEt DeCiDe" when they're part of the cartel that keeps prices high, then cry like babies when actually asked to compete.
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