Posted on 09/20/2016 1:56:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
**Obviously, it no longer makes “sense” to invest in small car production in America. Most of the news surrounding the move to Mexico addressed the benefit of low-cost labor. According to the Detroit Free Press: “The industry has known for decades that domestic manufacturers struggle to make a profit on small cars.” **
There is Kia assembly plant in Georgia. I guess that is their luxury lane cruiser division.
How come no one mentions GM’s $5 billion investment in Mexico in the last couple years?
I am not completely buying this.
Most of the assembly work on cars these days is done by robots, whether in Detroit, Mexico of Korea.
And foreign manufacturers are making cars here. Granted in non-union plants, but still, at greater cost than they could in other countries.
Why bring this up? As if he gives a sh*t.
He’s probably having a private chuckle.
F O R D = Fix or Repair Daily.
***Mexican Cars Alert***
If I open a door and see that its made in Burritoville I won’t buy. Ever.
I will never buy another Ford product,and I will call them and tell them just why. What tone deaf idiots.
The amerocentric article misses the point
Mexico has become the hemisphere center for export auto production
Ford is actually late to the game
The Ford’s inquestion will have a large export market far beyond the US
Not any that I've ever owned, which is everything for 25 years.
America is to lazy to be competitive!
I don't have the numbers, but I suspect the retirement benefits are also more expensive. That cost would be lower for the transplants because most haven't been here that long, and have fewer retirees to account for.
Does anyone have the numbers to support this or show otherwise?
I don’t know if this is still the case, but I recall a few years ago someone (probably here) pointing out that just about everyone on a union auto factory floor is considered an “auto worker” meaning even the guys running tow motors and sweeping the floor get unusually high salaries compared to other industries.
Great article - thanks.
Sportute Girls only want to buy sportutes. No small car for me.
CAFE standards are well past the point reason. They make about as much sense as Ethanol. We’re downing in Oil.
Check the tailpipe for pollution. Keep the standards reasonable. Weight savings measures are ruining the automotive business.
That’s because after their bailout they are investing YOUR MONEY, not theirs.
Ford has built cars in Mexico for over 70 yrs, along with GM
Most VWs sold here come from the plant in Puebla
And now most Toyota Tacoma pickups are made in Tiajuana
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following from related threads.
Patriots beware !
You would never know from these Obama-bashing articles that the USA has a Congress that has the constitutional authority to stop a presidents action’s.
The problem is that both the legislative and executive branches are corrupt, Obama allowing himself to be used as Congress’s “useful idiot,” Obama just one of many such “idiots” in the federal system.
More specifically, Congress is not only letting Obama get away with stealing and exercising legislative branch power imo, but also letting him exercise 10th Amendment-protected state powers that the corrupt feds have stolen from the states.
Corrupt lawmakers are likely letting last-term Obama get away with doing all the unpopular, unconstitutional things that Congress probably wants to do. But by letting Obama do Congress’s dirty work for it, lawmakers are able to keep their voting records clean. And by keeping their voting records clean, lawmakers are able to fool low-information voters into reelecting them. (Patriots need to iron the wrinkles out of the 22nd Amendment. When both legislative and executive branches are corrupt, watch out for unconstitutional actions by last-term presidents.)
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Fender Musical Instrument Company makes lots of stuff in Mexico and China.
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