[sphinx]

So GM and Ford are conceding the passenger car market to foreign makes while concentrating on SUV's and trucks?

This is the same story we've been hearing for 40 years. U.S. automakers can't make money on smaller vehicles. Why? The UAW, of course.

Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, VW, etc. can make money on passenger cars built in the U.S. So could an American company, if an American maker could somehow free itself from its parasitic infection.

[BwanaNdege]

This is the same story we've been hearing for 40 years. U.S. automakers can't make money on smaller vehicles. Why? The UAW, of course.

Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, VW, etc. can make money on passenger cars built in the U.S. So could an American company, if an American maker could somehow free itself from its parasitic infection.

BINGO!

President Trump needs to publically confront US carmaker's management AND the UAW with your statement,

"Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, VW, etc. can make money on passenger cars built in the U.S."

The problem is MANAGEMENT - both Corporate and Labor!

[Jimmy Valentine]

Why isn’t GM closing it’s foreign plant instead of US plants?

[mewzilla]

Why can’t they make money on smaller vehicles?

Because while cars have shrunk, people haven’t. And an aging population needs more room, not less.

We used to buy bloody subcompacts, but haven’t for years. Then we bought compact, then midsized. Now we have a freaking minivan and a crossover. Not because we needed extra hiproom, but because head and legroom has shrunk so much, these are the only cars we can sit in, get in and out of comfortably.

Thank you, freaking Fedzilla.