> the best, and cheapest, cars by a long shot NA hasn't produced the best or cheapest cars for decades at this point. Auto manufacturing has been an extension

> the best, and cheapest, cars by a long shot NA hasn't produced the best or cheapest cars for decades at this point. Auto manufacturing has been an extension of geopolitics for decades --- most of the time the cars we can buy are the cars we can buy because the government and trading partners made it that way, rather than some actual survival of the fittest, battle royale, last man standing exercise.