A few months ago, VW said that they would lay off 200,000 German autoworkers. This also affects 2,000,000 other German workers who works in the supply chain, from parts supply, to raw materials, to servicemen.But now China will take over VW plants and manufacture cheap EVs.Thoughts?
>>28233069USA should do the same
if the chinese are taking over the plants then that means they are building those cars in germany and german workers keep their job. those chinese cars will be german cars.what is the problem?
source?
VW is joint owned by Porsche family, Lower Saxon State and Qatar. Its not going to be taken over.
>>28233076Its Megatron! Jokes aside, its unrealistic to expect them to compete when they have highly paid workforce. VW staying in Germany is straight up communism.
>>28233074The german workers will be overseen by chinese men, the same way african workers are overseen by the chinese reverse colonialism.
>>28233069> VW will be owned by national socialist again nature is healing
>>28233085Me again, screwing things together is for idiots anyway. These Germans should be into design and R&D.
>>28233076https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinese-buyers-interested-unwanted-german-volkswagen-factories-source-says-2025-01-16/Its basically the same thing as GM selling Nummi to Toyota in 1984 or Ford selling Flat Rock to Mazda in 1987.
>>28233090R&D is intrinsincally tied to production facilities. You lose those and the engineers will wither.
Will this mean lower tariffs because the cars are made in germany now so we can actually get the cheap Chinese EVs we all want?
>>28233094it means no tariffs, because the cars are built in germany, and aren't considered imports. Tesla had to do the same thing so their cars wouldn't be taxed to shit, either. Chrysler did this with the Neon and the 300C so they could actually sell those cars at competitive prices in europe.
>>28233096Then it's over for legacy automakers. The future is Chinese EV.
>>28233069VW has been dogshit for years. It might actually do better under new management.
>>28233069I WILL NEVER DRIVE THE BUG CARME AND MY RATTY, RUSTY FIREBIRD WILL LIVE FOREVERRRRR!!!!
>>28233142kys the golf 8 r facelift is the the pinnacle of automobiles
>>28233260kek vws are GAY as FUCK you fucking USGPMT+ apologist
>>28233074>Europe flooded with chinese brand car that circumvent tariffs since produced in the EU.> Chinese brands happily sells at a loss since they make their money in their inner market and goverment subsidies.> Legacies automakers shut down one by one as they can't compete.> China happily jack its prices up once the competition is dead.Is this an issue in 2 years? 5? No, but give it 10.
>>28233260>8>not 7ngmi
>>28233447So? These cars are still made in germany, by germans, for europe. The customer just gets access to the cheap Chinese EVs that the market demands.Everyone wins.
>>28233463Don't bother replying if you can't read.
>>28233470Why would a shill read?
>>28233447>> China happily jack its prices up once the competition is dead.China has dominated solar panels for a decade now, dominating 85% of the market. Yet the prices keep falling down. What are some examples you can give of China "jacking up the prices" after dominating a market?China also dominates 90%+ of the drone market, with DJI taking up 75% by itself. Yet it's several times cheaper than their western counterpart.
>>28233503Solar isn't competing against solar, it's competig against every other sources of energy generations.
>>28233512And what about drones?
>>28233519Still has competion.
>>28233535>China has 90% of the drone market>"well, they don't have total control of the drone market, which is why they're still several times cheaper than the competition">Chinese EVs enters European market, where domestic car brands still exist, alongside 100+ American/Japanese/Korea car brands>"umm, China is going to kill the car market and jack up the prices because reasons"Still waiting for 3-4 examples of markets China has dominated and massively raised the prices on.
>>28233069VW will rent out it's empty production lines to the chinese to bypass tarrifs. Win win for both. VAG factories in germany are very inneficient, maybe chinks can improve that.
volkswagen should rent out their chattanooga factory to china too, we don't want their volkswagens even if theyre made in usa because theyre shit
another garbage chink thread
>>28233069Makes sense. VW is a massive brand over in China.
>>28233069I haven't seen one chinese car on the road
>>28233463Chink cocksucker detected
>>28233069these are the plants volkswagen is planning to close btwthere were rumors that nio was gonna buy audis belgian factory too but that didnt materialized>>28233094leapmotor(part owned by stellantis)is already building cars at poland ckd but countschery bought nissans plant in spain byd has opening factories in hungary and turkey>>28234270i see a shitton of cheries with some byds here(turkey)
>>28233447Even Biden in his last year saw this coming and put a crazy high tariff on Chinese cars.
>>28235599I thought americans liked the free market, why are they putting tariffs on the cars people actually want (cheap Chinese EVs)?
