My automotive journalist opinion is that this is bad for people who buy cars, sell cars, or need car parts. luckily America has hardly any areas with utter car dependency for survival
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expecting this to happen (but hoping it wouldn't) is why I replaced the ct200h so much faster than I had intended to
I'm starting to think I might have done something really smart and it super worries me because of the knowledge I had to gain to nail this timing so well 😭
Yeah I mean it’s kind of breathtakingly fucking stupid and is going to destroy a ton of people’s lives, but I’m sure the NYT editorial board will be happy because it hurts trans people, or something, so it’s actually brilliant politics? I am rather flabbergasted lol
Luckily the buses and trains we use in this country use 100% U.S.-made components so they can frequently travel our vast network of routes that connect the entire country
I’m not looking forward to the absolutely-definitely-coming service cuts when our ancient ass buses start dying off and there’s nothing in the pipeline to replace them!
It’s really cool that my people had to endure ever-worsening legal conditions and unspeakable amounts of fear and institutional oppression so that we could get the guy who would *checks notes* obliterate the world’s largest economy and a century of American hegemony overnight. I feel great
As a former sr executive in one of the carmakers, this will be a disaster for US consumers.
This morning the SecTreasury said companies should absorb the cost of the tariffs. I guess he doesn’t know that auto margins are 3-10%, and they’re supposed to absorb 25% extra cost on half their volume?
Thinking back to when I told my mom at the beginning of the year that we should just get the cheapest and most reliable hybrid we could find (Prius C), restore as much of it as possible, and just wait out the inevitable bs.
She insisted that we wait to get a lease on a new Rav4 hybrid instead 🫠
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I'm starting to think I might have done something really smart and it super worries me because of the knowledge I had to gain to nail this timing so well 😭
I knew I should have fixed the radiator last year 🙃
I’m so fucked.
This morning the SecTreasury said companies should absorb the cost of the tariffs. I guess he doesn’t know that auto margins are 3-10%, and they’re supposed to absorb 25% extra cost on half their volume?
🤭🤭
She insisted that we wait to get a lease on a new Rav4 hybrid instead 🫠
Like...there's a bunch of rental car companies on the island and no one will have money for vacations anymore sooo...maybe cheap used hybrid sales?
At somepoint????
Please????