Trump zerreißt die nordamerikanische Autoindustrie

Title doesn’t mention it but the article is actually about Auto Pact, the Canada-US automotive manufacturing agreement that created the integrated North American auto industry, a pre-NAFTA specialized free trade agreement that was widely beneficial to both nations, as much as the Big Three and the unionized auto workers. A rare example of a win-win.

On a practical level, vehicles should be made in Mexico for low wages and imported up to the US/Canada. So NAFTA/CUSMA was protecting Canadian and US auto workers and Trump decided he wants to take the Canada part out of that.

This is why we should be pivoting towards Asian/EU manufacturers who want North American market access and are prepared to build in Canada to get it.

A lot of Reddit would be happy if private vehicle ownership was abolished and public transportation being the only means to travel so this should be celebrated, right?

Keep bringing in foreign vehicles, the auto makers are price gouging North Americans. We need more competition in the auto industry to give them all a reality check.

Well that and everything else.

lol why would you buy a vehicle made in North America. You are begging to be ripped off at that point. They are not even affordable for what you get.

This article is worth reading to the end. It’s a very good historical analysis of vehicle manufacturing and trade between our countries dating back to the days of horse and carriage.

Now that we’re on the threshold of the electric mobility revolution, it’s hard to see how anything happening in North America still matters. Most of the cars and trucks here are so far behind. Ford canceled their F150 Lightning. It’s like we’re still making carriages to pull behind horses.

Maybe we should think about not buying so many vehicles. So called climate change/environmental activists buying vehicles, kinda hypocritical