Trump blasts General Motors: Make Chevy Cruze model in US or 'pay big border tax

Everybody buy your cars before Inauguration Day!

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Didn't we bail them out? Were there no stipulations they agreed to when we did that?

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You expect that from the same group of clowns that negotiated the Iran deal?

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When the right finally takes care of the Unions the left will never win another national election.

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After the 2020 Census the left may not control congress for 10 to 20 years.

Gee that does not sound like a free enterprise, capitalist to dictate to a business that they produce their cars where he says or face a tax.

Trumpkins remind me how this coincides with free market capitalism?

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They do make them in the US

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They also make them in Mexico, and are redirecting production there:

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General Motors Co (GM.N) will build its next-generation Chevrolet Cruze small car in Mexico, the company said on Monday, as automakers look to expand there to take advantage of low labor costs and free trade agreements. GM will invest $350 million to produce the Cruze at its plant in Coahuila, as part of the $5 billion investment in its Mexican plants announced last year

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How many people are buying a Chevy Cruz to begin with?

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One of the things GM does and the other OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) may also do is ration cars to the dealers.

You want a Corvette? Order 2 Cruzes and a Spark. Want some new Camaro’s? Take a couple of Malibu’s too. And of course the GM way is definitely their way or the highway, not to coin a phrase.

We used to have these conference calls with 500 people on them. At least your phone couldn’t ring. We had one when they rolled out the Volt. The Volt has a 1.4 liter gas motor, the same one as the Cruze. If you drove around home only and charged up every night, the gas motor might never come on at all. That was the big selling point. The gas motor only charged the battery of the electric motor.

So one on of these giant phonecons, someone asked, “If the gas motor never comes on, how do you get the gasoline out?” The briefers had no idea. No one in Detroit knew the answer.

Turns out that the car computer knows when the gas was added, and after a full year, the gasoline motor will come one automatically and burn the gas out. There is a warning on the dash to tell the driver this is happening.

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Last time I stepped onto a Chevy lot,

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If you are to believe the Chevy commercials, their cars are always winning multiple awards!

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They do make them in the US. What a fricking idiot this man is. And you believe every bit of drivel he spews.

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Trump speaks the truth, every other source of information, including GM in this case, is fake or lying!!!

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General Motors defended itself Tuesday from a Donald Trump tweet attack, saying only a "small number" of one Mexican-made Chevy Cruze model is sold in the United States.

"All Chevrolet Cruze sedans sold in the U.S. are built in GM's assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio," the company said in a statement. "GM builds the Chevrolet Cruze hatchback for global markets in Mexico, with a small number sold in the U.S."
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GM told CNBC it sold about 190,000 Cruzes in the U.S. in 2016. About 4,500 of those, or 2.4 percent, were hatchbacks made in Mexico.

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Gee that does not sound like a free enterprise, capitalist to dictate to a business that they produce their cars where he says or face a tax.

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I disagree with this statement. However, since you are opposed to capitalism, and you view it this way, then you are obviously on board with this policy. Right?