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.
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.