Because shipping stuff across an ocean costs money?

It’s not financially feasible to do this. Most of the cars that GM makes for China are small cars sold under the Baojun and Wuling brands. By the time you deal with tariffs and shipping costs, your margins would be completely eliminated and probably upside down if you tried to produce them in the US.

For the same reasons Subaru, Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes, VW, Nissan, and Hyundai have major operations in the US despite being foreign companies.

why shouldn’t we build cars in the US to then sell to China?

The answer to your question is both simple and complex.

The simple answer is this: You punish (by means of withholding purchases/funds) corporations when their behavior exceeds the limits of your personal system of ethics. Corporation does something you don’t like? Don’t buy their shit. If enough people agree with you,…

This is almost certainly the best take here. I’m a young Gen-Xer and this is the first Corvette that I’m attracted to in *years*. No, that’s not quite right. The first in *decades*.

I’d be very skeptical of anyone claiming 20+ mpg over any length of time in a modern HD diesel. These are 8000 lb trucks with the aerodynamics of a barn door, and the engines aren’t your daddy’s 12V Cummins anymore. Burning additional fuel to regen every few hundred miles doesn’t tend to help matters.

There is no iron block version of the 6.2, and no HD truck in history has used an aluminum block. It’s the same reasoning why Ford designed a new big block gas engine vs using a light duty Ecoboost that makes more power and torque. The duty cycles these HD trucks are designed around are no joke, and it’s a big reason…

Get back to me when a hybrid system can stand up to 250,000 miles of towing 15,000 lb like this can.

It actually warms my heart to see Ford finally decided to do in 2019 what GM has been shat on for doing for 30 years lol. The secret is pushrod engines. 

This exactly. Fleets and heavy operators are figuring out that diesels high initial costs, higher costs in maintenance and higher downtimes for maintenance aren’t worth the gains in economy.  A dead reliable, low maintenance and cheaper gasoline engine is the economic choice in the long run.  

0 to 60 in less than 3 seconds. 60K starting price for the base model.

Oh Jalopnik.  You’re going to have to come up with some pretty good ideas on how folks should hate this car.   Good luck. 

Well compared to its competition it is “cheap”.

It is the same, the Xbox One is just a PC with a locked down windows operating system, and uses only slightly modified regular PC hardware. The next Xbox will be the same, meaning Xbox One games will run natively on it without any changes.

I guess... Mercedes still produces a 4.0 liter TT V8 and of course the big cube V12s in the super cars which would still translate into 4+ liter V8s

That’s fair, since I don’t think Europeans realize how weird and dumb - not to mention unnecessary - any displacement below 3.5L sounds to most of us Americans. 

We know how weird it sounds, and we feel really bad for you.  Big V8s are fun.

Not really, it can meet regulations no problem.

Actually its only 49 year old technology, thank-you-very-much.

So, according to Wikipedia, mother of all knowledge, the Pushrod engine is only about 10 years older than the Overhead Cam design.

I get your joke, and I’mma let you get back to it, but that’s some interesting info.