Loading ...What would have been much better is if you stupid Americans had learnt from the Japanese, and produced equally good if not better cars by improving quality, reducing fuel consumption and adding on the extras. We were equally stupid in the UK, with our manufacturers refusing to change. As a kid I couldn’t understand how the Japanese could build a better, more reliable, less rusty, more economical and better equipped (electric windows, cruise control, central locking, radio cassette player, sunroof etc. etc. as standard) AND ship it half way around the world for less than the price of a pile of British Leyland, Ford or Vauxhall junk. Only because we were stupidly stubborn. Mind you, it certainly left more money in our pockets to be able to afford a house …. Not that I ever bought a Japanese car in England, I’ve always been a second hand buyer/maintainer, but we do have an ’85 Mazda now. Electric windows and mirrors, sunroof, keyhole light, cruise control, aircon, no electronics. And hey! It all still works! And I can buy parts for it from the local Mazda dealer.
And now you are importing inflation with your tariffs. Either the prices go up because of tariffs, or the prices go up because you have to pay American labour rates and American bureaucracy costs to make the same thing that has previously been made in low cost/low paperwork countries. You can’t have your cake and eat it.