Am 30 Aug 18  00:42:18 schrob aaron thomas an Lee Lofaso zum Thema 


at> Strengthening the American automotive industry is nice too!

How? By making them pay tariffs on steel and aluminum? Or by having everyone 
else introducing tariffs on US products? He keeps talking about Chrysler cars 
in Germany. If you go to http://chrysler.de, it says that they're not selling 
them in Germany. And I think, I've seen only three in real life, a Crossfire, a 
Matiz and a Spark. Moreover, Chrysler is a brand of an Italian company.
What we do have a lot is Fords, they're about 10% of all cars currently 
licensed. However, not what you're thinking of, Ford in Germany does not mean 
F250 or Crown Victorya, it means Ka and Fiesta, the very low price segment. On 
the Other hand, the Mercedes and BMW that you can buy in the US are only the 
high priced ones. Now let's introduce tariffs on both sides, let's say 20 
percent. The Ford Ka currently is available for 10,000 EUR, it's prices would 
rise to 12,000 EUR. Noone is going to pay that, you can get a small VW, Smart, 
Hyundai, Toyota, Peugeot, Fiat, Dacia, Daewoo, Suzuki, Mitsubishi or Mazda for 
10,000.
I don't think anyone buying an AMG C63 or M 3 cares about paying another 20,000 
Dollars, that's less than he paid for the rims ...



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Gerhard
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