Comment by reaperman
> Traditional US car manufacturers are absolutely incompetent and will not survive competition with Chinese manufacturers
Oh they won't have any trouble. They may lose international market share but the US government will keep raising tariffs ad infinitum to protect the US automakers no matter how far behind they get, or how expensive the vehicles get. We already are giving them 100% tariffs against BYD/etc. You might think that's absurd but the steel industry has received tariffs up to 266% against Chinese steel, so there's a lot of headroom left to continue to price out international competition.
There's really no pressure for the US automakers to do better or innovate or actually compete.
Chinese companies can do the same thing Toyota and a bunch of other European and Japanese brands did.
Open factories in NA and make their cars here. If the US companies are so incompetent they should still be able to outcompete them while paying several times higher wages and not getting any subsidies from the CCP.