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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 22, 2019
time2roll wrote:
wilber1 wrote:
You do know how tariffs work? The consumer pays the tariff, not the companies.
A bit of both. I have studied economics.

Example: Tesla tax credit drops in half at 1-1-2019. Tesla drops the price of the Model 3 in January. Or is that a coincidence?


Manufacturers might absorb some of it but why would they if the tariff is protecting their profits.

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