• @[email protected]
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    -125 months ago

    It isn’t 1970 anymore. Those three manufacturers are barely a blip on the radar in the US.

    • @mlg
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      5 months ago

      If they were barely a blip, they wouldn’t have been bailed out for 17.4 50 billion dollars.

      • @[email protected]
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        -45 months ago

        Perhaps “barely a blip” wasn’t the most accurate phrasing but they’re not exactly crushing the competition. GM is at 16.5% while Toyota is #2 (14.4%), Ford #3 and Hyundai is #4. Stellantis isn’t even a US company so I don’t know why people still think of Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep as American brands. The whole market is pretty mixed and these tariffs on Chinese vehicles are protecting the market not US companies.

        https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-us-market-share-now-tops-volkswagen-subaru-and-bmw-161055575.html

        The bailouts were given to save US manufacturing jobs and all these companies besides Ford have fully paid back those loans.