I’m sure the Porsche and Audi quality and reliability will go through the roof when $7 an hour Kentuckians start building them.

Does nothing for vehicle affordability for normal working people.

This is the way. 

Porsche has a much more dedicated fan base, like Harley-Davidson and Corvette. BMW has its fanbois, but most of them we see are whatever dentist/middle manager/etc. who wants a nice lease. I don’t think I’ve ever met a Mercedes fanboy who acts in a similar manner to any other brands. They mostly seem like the same…

So much this. Once one major brand is forced to charge an extra 25%, all of their competitors will respond by charging at least an extra 24%. I’m sure plenty of companies will use it as an excuse, even if they aren’t impacted by tariffs at all. Just like how every time a company does mass layoffs and says, “there were…

Volkswagen needs to pull a page out of Foxconn’s playbook. Make like you’re going to build a plant somewhere, but you just need to find the “right place.” That’ll convince the Dipshit in Chief that you’re going to give him what he wants, so he’ll back off of the tariff threats. 

It’s unlikely that the 911 would get moved, as it’s a lower volume nameplate that already demands a premium.

To be fair I would suspect a lot of buyers have no idea where their vehicle is built except maybe folks looking for high 6 figure vehicles.

It won’t be a victory. It will just be degrees of loss. I suspect if you live somewhere with >100% tax on cars, you live somewhere with a functioning transit system where many can get by without a car or families can get by with only one car.

What exactly are the details of the duh’ministrations tariffs? How much vehicle content can be built in Canada, Mexico, and the EU to avoid the tariff? Can Porsche source and build an entire 911 in Germany, but not assemble the tires until delivered at a garage next to a VW factory in Tennessee and avoid the tariffs?

people who can buy porsche brand new or used rarer than alien and “more than you can afford pal” porsche probably doesn’t want USA-built Porsche

Tennessee isn’t really the United States but it looks like Trump is doing his best to destroy the actual United States.

Sadly it rejects anything without the ‘HK’ stamp; best buy that 416 before the gun rack!

There was even something in another article here about the tariffs that is the automakers moved all their Canadian production to the states to avoid the 25% tariff, the cost would STILL go up about 20% anyway because of the increased cost of production in the states. Like does it suck that a lot of manufacturing has…

Living in a country with > 100% taxes on cars, I’m pretty sure 25% won’t break your backs.

That explains why the on-line Porsche configurator now includes a $6,400 gun rack option.

Meaning of Pyrrhic victory in English - a victory that is not worth winning because the winner has lost so much in winning it: She won the court case, but it was a Pyrrhic victory because she had to pay so much in legal fees.

Great, Porsche and Audi prices go up AND build quality goes down. Win win!

After listening to Howard Lutnick’s testimony today, I would agree on a single point. Some countries have placed roadblocks of their own that have made importation of American Cars (and other products) artificially difficult.

No matter what Trump intended (as if he knew), initiating VW and Porsche production in the US will not keep their prices at current levels. This is only one part of a larger automobile landscape. And when tariffs on other, imported goods inevitably increase the consumer cost of those goods, Volkswagen will follow suit—…