Hello Gerhard,

>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 ...

Not a problem.  Just buy Chinese.

--Lee

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Laying Pipe Since '88

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