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I actually will be happy if the playing fiekd becomes more level.

The idea behind the threat, from my understanding, is to get the tariff on the same level playing field as they tax our cars 10% while we only tax theirs 2.5%, whether it is raising our tariff or getting them to lower theirs.

Panasonic is an investor in GigaFactory 1 in Nevada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1

Governments picking winners and losers (otherwise known as industrial policy) seldom works well for markets or consumers. Too bad Trump never ran a real multinational corporation: at that point he would recognize that free trade and minimal governmental interference on the consumer-facing side are good things to have as policy. Then again, the GOP rank-and-file probably prefer protectionism (if not autarky), whereas their (former?) leaders and elites actually prefer free trade and NO industrial policy.

FIAT deserves to die (at least in the USA). As for Chrysler and Dodge, merge the two brands at this point.

Exactly, I don't see Trump and his family driving Chevrolets. Trump has had Rolls Royces for decades and England isn't buying many American cars either, and Rolls is now German owned. If he puts a tariff on just cars made in Germany, the GLE and GLS are made in the USA, so doesn't affect those Mercedes, BMW builds SUVs in South Carolina, doesn't affect those. And then what if Mercedes takes Chinese built E-classes and imports them to the USA, and sends the German built E-classes to China. Is he going to tax all Chinese made cars too? The major problem here is you have a president that wants to pick winners and losers, which is more like North Korean communism, and not capitalism. What if the next president decides there should be a 50% sales tax on Trump hotels and a 0% sales tax on Marriott Hotels? And tries to pick which companies make money and which ones go out of business. They could have a 0% tariff on American cars, Europeans aren't buying them because the only good American cars are big trucks that are too thirsty and too large to sell over there. Likewise for China with the displacement taxes. If GM wants to make a Malibu with Cadillac CT6 level build quality that gets 55 mpg then game on in international markets, but that current car is hopeless.

So a Solar Saturn.....

18 miles is what the HVAC might take if running a full blast on a hot day. so that goes back to my point. The only thing the solar panels are good for is keeping the car cool

The idea behind the threat, from my understanding, is to get the tariff on the same level playing field as they tax our cars 10% while we only tax theirs 2.5%, whether it is raising our tariff or getting them to lower theirs. I think there is zero chance they ban German automobiles.

Man, the world itself makes no sense now.....

Crazy https://jalopnik.com/trump-threatens-to-push-german-carmakers-from-the-u-s-1826448454 Why is there now a push to wipe out the german auto companies from America? Makes no sense to me.

Front end looks like it was styled by Disney...too bad they don't have the budget to give it a Ram like nose..

I think this could work! I think something like the Subaru Crosstrek or new Focus Active would work with a Jeep nameplate.

I know these aren't bought based on looks but their capability as a work van but my god is that ugly.

Panasonic seems on their game...not surprised there. A good thing though....

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2018/05/30/sergio-marchionne-fiat-chrysler/651402002/ Interesting read on the same story as Bill wrote about above.

Sadly, FCA forced Fiat down the throats of existing Jeep,Ram,Dodge,Chrysler mega dealers. Fiat could not make it in the US and it was stupid to bring it back, just like it has been stupid to bring back to life Alfa. I suspect some kind of we pull your Chrysler dealership as you do not sell enough product when it is Sergio's own Stupidity as killing the label by starving of products. I can see merging it all under a Dodge label or officially killing off stand alone places by saying you have to be a mega merged dealership of those labels. A one stop shop of Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, Fiat, Alfa, Maserati. etc. Why is an out of date CEO allowed to build the next 5 year plan? He was supposed to go this year and the story now says next year. So a year by year CEO job? ? More questions than answers by this story and the links.

Ford said this and everybody freaks out...