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Our car industry has been told to get its shit together and failed or not even tried so many times. It's times to just let in BYD for a few years and just slau
by Ericson2314 1y ago
Our car industry has been told to get its shit together and failed or not even tried so many times.
It's times to just let in BYD for a few years and just slaughter all the incumbents. I don't care what we do after that. But a bloody reckoning is sorely needed.
- FridayoLeary 1y agoIt's happening already. The affordable car market is being increasingly neglected. Ford has abandoned their best selling focus and fiesta models and are chasing a more premium market. Expect soulless Chinese models to fill in the gaps.
- hron749 1y ago> Expect soulless Chinese models to fill in the gaps. What’s wrong with soulless Chinese $20k crossover/compact SUVs? White, gray, and black $40-100k Mercedes, Porsche Cayennes, and Cadillac Escalades are equally soulless.
- theLiminator 1y ago> Expect soulless Chinese models to fill in the gaps. As opposed to the soulful American models?
- hron749 1y ago> As opposed to the soulful American models? he thinks Teslas have soul … the soul of Elon
- kelseyfrog 1y agoEach Tesla, a horcrux.
- nine_k 1y agoWhy not soulful Japanese or Korean models? (KIA Soul, anyone?)
- forgotTheLast 1y agoIt's being discontinued next year ironically.
- cmxch 1y agoNot in the US they won’t. The Chinese option would actually have to have some compelling features and marketing to overcome their significant barriers to entry. And not being Tesla is not one of them.
- nativeit 1y agoSo if we leave the racism aside, we can look forward to some solid choices? That's assuming the racist tariffs don't inflate the prices for the affordable options I suppose...it sure does seem like racism might be making things worse on both fronts.
- sagarm 1y agoBYD stands for "build your dreams." Seems like soul to me.
- nine_k 1y agoWhen Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, KIA, etc came, and Detroit turned into a zombie city, did it help? Well, I can admit that Ford learned from Honda quite a bit, which could be readily seen in their Focus line. Is it their fault that consumers stubbornly want the likes of F-150 or Chevy Suburban, which are not even proper cars?
- lucidone 1y agoIt helped consumers a lot.
- helloooooooo 1y agoWhy is consumerism the metric here, and not general societal health?
- Ericson2314 1y agoCars are bad, but there are far more people driving a car than working in the automobile industry. The former has a better claim to societal health than the latter.
- mlrtime 1y agoCars are not "bad", and there are far more people driving than taking public transportation. Most of them prefer it.
- nine_k 1y agoCars are good in some circumstances, mass transit, in other circumstances. One size does not fit all. Small, inexpensive cars would also be good in some circumstances, but the US auto industry, for some reason, struggles to offer something as compact as Honda Fit, or at least something as reliable as Toyota Corolla.
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