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American auto industry has had several reset chances since Japanese automakers began wiping the floor with them and each time they have found themselves behind within 5-10 years. It’s pretty incredible.


The British car show Top Gear had a joke about this phenomenon when discussing the size of their American car's engines:

> How big's your engine? 5.7 litre Buick and a 7 litre v8 motor!

> It's 160HP in the Buick

> It's 200HP in the 7.0l [other American car]

> How do [American car companies] get so few horsepower from these engines?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKai81eBRE


Germany goes the same way and instead of supporting EVs and infrastructure drastically, they discuss how to roll back the phase out of combustion engine cars.

Sad to see how a country, which is so proud of their car industry, fails so spectacularly.


Is their main horse in the race capable of changing? Volkswagen's innovative drive systems turned out to be fraudulent.


They are so huge, they should all try at least. The race is lost for now, though.

Volkswagen announced they want to produce a cheap model (20k€) it'll be there....2027. I guess by that time, people will already accept Chinese cars. I see them quite often here in a big German city.




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