Anyone who has ever been to Europe can see it how it works for themselves. There are literally zero American cars in europe, in every direction one looks, as far as the eye can see, all day, everyday. None.
It's not just the tariffs. Europe taxes by engine displacement, so they have to engineer the snot out of higher rpm running engines with sub 2.0 liter turbos.
In the US, many states tax on how much the vehicle costs ("Luxury tax"), or require once a year "mandatory inspections" at "authorized service centers" like in PA. If you decide to change the broken light bulb they find yourself instead of paying $35 for them to do it, you'll have to bring it back and pay a "re-inspection" fee.
Visited cousins in Norway in 2018 and one of them had a new 4 door Dodge ram pickup, nothing fancy. He had the seats in the back removed because apparently the government charges you per seat… and he said it was still close to $100k.
Anyone who has ever been to Europe can see it how it works for themselves. There are literally zero American cars in europe, in every direction one looks, as far as the eye can see, all day, everyday. None.
Older ones sometimes. Saw a sweet 59 Eldorado in Amsterdam, bigger than the street it was parked on. And I've exported 7 or 8 cars to Finland myself.
59 Eldorado - certainly in my top 10 of favorites. Absolute art on wheels.
It's not just the tariffs. Europe taxes by engine displacement, so they have to engineer the snot out of higher rpm running engines with sub 2.0 liter turbos. In the US, many states tax on how much the vehicle costs ("Luxury tax"), or require once a year "mandatory inspections" at "authorized service centers" like in PA. If you decide to change the broken light bulb they find yourself instead of paying $35 for them to do it, you'll have to bring it back and pay a "re-inspection" fee.
This is exactly why glabalist puppets are melting over tariffs.
Visited cousins in Norway in 2018 and one of them had a new 4 door Dodge ram pickup, nothing fancy. He had the seats in the back removed because apparently the government charges you per seat… and he said it was still close to $100k.
https://x.com/Rintala_Matti/status/1907131260222230778
47K for a benz in America?
What's wrong with it?....
Probably a year old with 5k miles on it.
Base model GLA crossover C class and CLA class sedans starting prices in the USA
Car tax: 39,666
The US doesn't have a VAT