QOTD: What to Do About China?
It seems to be a bipartisan effort to keep Chinese automakers from coming in to the States and beating the brakes off of the American, European, and non-Chinese Asian automakers.
We have tariffs in place that might even prevent American automakers from building cars in China and selling them here. We have a prominent senator trying to prevent Chinese automakers from getting around tariffs by building cars in countries like Mexico and then selling them here.
The question to me is, how do the other automakers deal with Chinese cars? Personally, I think tariffs are a bad idea, economically speaking, and the best solution would be for the other automakers to simply built cars that are good enough -- and affordable enough -- to be competitive with Chinese-built autos.
That said, I am no expert in economics or geopolitics. I know a bit about cars and the automotive industry, of course, but perhaps not enough for a high-paying executive gig at an OEM.
I also know a lot of our audience is quite knowledgeable, so I am throwing this out to you in the B and B.
As usual with anything political, please nice or face the banhammer.
Thanks in advance, now sound off below.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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