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ShinerBock
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Feb 14, 2019

FCA Paid $77 Million in CAFE Penalties in 2016

And people wonder why the cost of vehicles keep going up and why most automakers dropped vehicles with a small footprint. This is one reason why compact pickup trucks went extinct in 2011. I guess th...
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wilber1
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Feb 20, 2019
ShinerBock wrote:
If the chicken tax protected the big three from competition, they how did Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Isuzu, Mitsubishi, VW, Subaru, Honda, and Suzuki all sell trucks while the chicken tax was in place?

I fit protected them from competition, they they would have ZERO competition, not nine.


Nissan and Toyota built factories in the US and the others gave up.
Why is the tax still there if it doesn't do anything? 46 years of having your market protected can be habit forming for anyone.

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