• riodoro1@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Please europe, I beg you. 100% tariff on those fucking emotional support trucks.

    Im going to start blowing them up soon otherwise.

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      6 days ago

      Do we actually have clowns buying them over here? I didn’t even think they were road legal anywhere

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        In poland theres more of them each month. I fucking hate it so much.

        Assholes in „rural” areas (10mins to city center) buy them and then parade in their fucking tanks. They are always the most polished and detailed cars on the intersection. I drive a larger car myself (not a suv, a big coupe) but it looks like a toy compared to a dodge ram. Those fuckers wouldn’t even be able to see a matiz in front of them.

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        5 days ago

        There’s one in the garage of my apartment building. All i can think about when I see it is what a giant douche bag you have to be to buy something like that while living in a big city.

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        4 days ago

        I think you think this thread is talking about the cybertruck but they’re just talking about regular pick up trucks.

        • kuerbiskernoel@feddit.org
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          You barely see any pick up trucks in Europe (or at least in Austria). I know like one or two farmers who have one and that’s it.

          People who like big cars buy SUVs here.

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            Unfortunately I do see them (a bit) in the Netherlands… Something them being a tax loophole for entrepreneurs (but they’re supposedly closing it). Definitely niche though, indeed the emotional support vehicles are the big German SUVs…

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        6 days ago

        I live in a small rural town in Ireland. I’m seeing more and more ridiculously huge pickups that are simply too big for the parking spots. They’re fucking awful

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        4 days ago

        Yeah. An ex coworker of mine deemed it necessary to drive such a wankpanzer in our medium-sized german city over the astonishing distance of 5 kilometres to/from work.

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          Those are even legal in Europe? Some dude imported one here, as an impulse buy, as he had won a large money prize on Euro Millions, and it had the nastiest of ends, as he jammed the thing between two building in a narrow street. The car was cut to pieces on the spot, to be removed. The rumour mill spoke of nearly 75.000€ to the trash.

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        I saw a bunch in the Netherlands (in smaller towns and villages) and a few in Czechia.

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          NL has supposedly cracked down on the tax loophole which made these attractive to b entrepreneurs (something about imported vehicles), so hopefully we start seeing less of them over time.

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      6 days ago

      The F-150 is imported into Europe, but you can not buy them at normal Ford dealerships, because they are so unpopular. Indeed most Fords sold in Europe are actually designed in Germany…

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    5 days ago

    So what defines a “foreign” car? BMW builds the X3 in South Carolina and VW builds their SUVs in Tennessee. However Ford builds the Bronco in Mexico. So which one will be tariffed?

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        So Ford gets taxed while the “import” brand doesn’t. Another well thought out policy by this administration. My “foreign” car was built in Alabama.

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          They just need a metric to wave in the face of their very stupid voter base. If they don’t get any, they’ll make some up. They absolutely do not care if this policy successfully results in the stated intended effect.

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      He’s permanently a person for a very very long randomly sized amount of time that is shorter than 100years and longer than 1 second. It could be a heart condition or covid in a week or next year on good Friday. Who knows. But it won’t be 100 more. My guess is 5 to 10 more. He’ll be litigating the entire time.

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    Still not buying American trash cars. Of all the vehicles I’ve ever owned, American cars were by far the worst. I’ll stick to my Japanese autos thank you very much. They know how to make a reliable car that punches above its class. I don’t give two shits if I have to pay a tariff.

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      A lot of Japanese cars are made in the US. Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai and Kia all have manufacturing facilities in the US.

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        You know what cars aren’t manufactured in the USA? American cars. I drive a fusion and the only part I could find that wasn’t made in Mexico was the radio.

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          Anyone that has worked in automotive manufacturing can confirm. Most of the material comes packaged in boxes “shipped from” Mexico or China. It’s assembled in the US and so they say “Made in the U.S.A.”

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        Yeah, and because of NAFTA to build a car, parts were going across the border multiple times back and forth. So with tariffs that can increase the price much more.

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            It’s on both, but just learned that apparently it won’t impact the parts that going back and forth across the border. It looks like those additional tariffs which will affect it are still planned on April 2nd.

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        Yeah, but the quality is noticably better on the cars with J VINs. I have made sure every car I’ve ever gotten was built in Japan.

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    Yeah, I’m sure that’s going to save your butt buddies shitty car company.

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    Toyota builds Camry, Avalon, RAV4, and Lexus in Georgetown, KY.

    If it means foreign brands, that will fuck over a lot of red state workers, if he means foreign built, maybe not.

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      American cars are already near impossible to sell in Europe. Terrible fuel economy, to large and bad turning radius for European cities with small roads, things like cyber trucks and other oversized pickups are probably not road legal because of pedestrian crash safety regulations.

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      Nobody wants American cars. I guess up until recently Tesla was the exception, but that was already changing before Musk decided to go full mask off.