But Wilma-branded bacon is able to be sold at a 70% premium!

"Will have"? We Americans arguably have one serving as President right now!

I don't know, but regardless - it wouldn't work on Slashdot.

The US pretends to support choice and competition but the minute they have their asses handed to them, suddenly it's circle the wagons.

It's one of my favorite things that the majority of the Internet finally caught on how much bullshit Elon spouted for years that people took at face value.

Review your WW2 History. The US managed to gear up to fight a 2 front global war.

True dat. And just as a data point, if a person has a GM Vehicle, they have ONStar. And you don't need a subscription for them to hit the kill switch and cause the car to only idle. So you pull off the road, and let popo come to visit.

When I was a kid, it was "American cars have sucked since the 1920's"

Oddly enough, those good cars befrore rusted in a few years, and I remember celebrating when my 1965 Buick Skylark hit 100K miles. And then I sold it to a junkyard. Tires lasted 15,000 miles, Water pumps maybe 20,000 miles. Brake pads mayby 15,000 miles.

Today, I put around 300,000 mile on a vehicle, First time body issues hardly ever start before 200,000 miles.Ceramic brake pads seem to last forever. The engines are essentially what we used to call "blueprinted" which would have resulted in gasps

I get some of it - nostalgia for the older cars. Wife had a 69 Mustang and I had a 73 Mach 1. Awesome rides. But compared to anything now? We sold them before the 100,000 mile mark because they were done.

We tend to look at Japanese vehicles are durable and reliable. The Hilux is legendary for being nigh on indestructible. There was a British TV show that put one on the roof of a tower block and demolished the tower, then threw it in the sea, and with some new spark plugs it was still working.

UK only has domestic luxury car manufacturing to my recollection. With them out of the eu they don't have much reason to engage in protectionism

You seem very comfortable on your spectrum...

You can have the car in any color you want...provided it is black.

--Henry Ford

Nothing has changed.

At the rate Chinese manufacturing is advancing, if they set one up in the US by the time it is built it would be mostly robots and a few people to keep an eye on them.

The main issue with trying to attract manufacturing to the US is that it is not a politically stable country. Even if Trump does abdicate at the end of his term, the reality for the past few decades has been policies lurching back on forth every 4/8 years. People don't want to invest in things like factories when in a few years the US government might decide you need to sell your business or that your product is a threat to oil producers or something equally catastrophic.

As a European my perception of US cars is that they are fairly crap. A few models make it here and don't compare well to European brands. They tend to be impractical and inefficient. The EVs are half arsed.

Here Chinese brands are competitive, but our domestic manufacturers are making the effort and doing okay with it. Funny how when Chinese brands started gaining traction the European built EVs started getting 10k+ taken off the price, and still sold at a profit.