I mean... you’ve obviously hasn’t taken a sports car on any kind of GT event or road trip....

Porsche has been doing this forever?

I don’t think they even need to tell anyone at this point lol.

It sucks for everyone involved, but when you hit clear air turbulence, Not sure what anyone can do.

It’s as ok to buy Chinese EVs as it is to buy iphones and all the other shit made in China.

Sounds like you don’t know Mexico very well lol.

We’re fine with buying oil from middle east that’s directly paying for the killing of tens of thousands of SEA/Indian migrant workers to power our ICE cars though lol.

Mexican labor aren’t that much better... They’re averaging $3.25/hour, so that’s what, $480/month for 4 weeks of 40 hours? That’s why companies are relocating there.

Let’s be honest here. We’ll never get decent cheap EVs here from US manufacturers in any reasonable amount of time lol. Maybe give it another 4+ years before they sell anything close to the bolt again....

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I mean... it sounds boring from the outside, and doesn’t sound any different from most of the current crop of performance sedans and etc that all pump noise into the cabin because the engines themselves sound mediocre at best lol.

They’re passing European crash tests with full marks, I don’t see why they wouldn’t pass US crash tests with minor modifications to meet regulations (like the stupid amber turn signals and etc) since that’s what every other manufacturer does.

Assembly labor costs here are barely 5-10% of the production costs. Also, Chinese labor costs are about the same as Mexican labor costs now. you’re not saving nearly as much on labor as you would be able to just cut a car’s cost in half.

I guess you forgot the entire narrative that our justice and prison system is designed to push minorities with non violent petty crimes into long prison sentences for forced labor.

US steel is barely 3% of Steel global export market...

Because they’re selling it for $7500 more than what the car should be priced at in order to be competitive? That’s a extra $7500 in the pockets of the manufacturers.

It’s funny because everything described here is literally a short sighted decision. Europe isn’t gonna be as soft as the US on the market, and we’ve seen the Chinese/SEA/SA/hell, even mexican market do the exact same...

Tesla doesn’t have that big of a marketshare in China... roughly 2% and it’s been trending downwards...

It’s not just going to be Tesla...

The US is dumping a shit ton of money into this.