GM removes Mexican built Blazer from display near soon to close Detroit factory

Thanks Trump

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and shifting work to lower-cost of labor areas such as China and Mexico in order to keep costs down.

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Ah, so shitty cars getting shittier, brilliant.

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shifting work to lower-cost of labor areas such as China and Mexico in order to keep costs down.

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This does not mean that sticker prices will be lower. Only that production costs will be lower so that profits will be higher.

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Bbbbbut Obama...Bailed out GM..jobs sent anywhere But here..

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Bbbbbut on December 19, George W. Bush announced that he had approved the bailout plan, which would give loans of $17.4 billion to U.S. automakers GM and Chrysler, stating that under present economic conditions, "allowing the U.S. auto industry to collapse is not a responsible course of action." Bush provided $13.4 billion now, with another $4 billion available in February 2009. Funds would be made available from the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. General Motors would get $9.4 billion, and Chrysler $4 billion.

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GM is closing plants in the U.S. and Canada, and shifting work to lower-cost of labor areas such as China and Mexico in order to keep costs down.

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they cut costs about 70% by building in mexico/c.america, yet the cars still cost the same or more as they did when people here in the USA made them.

but,but,but

Why can we find a way to produce our own goods?

So now producing at lower cost thanks to moving plants to china and mexico and yet prices to buy have skyrocketed! Greed at its best. I could understand rising cost due to production in the U.s. but in mex or china.

Nissan, VW, Audi, Chevrolet, Ford, and Chrysler have been building cars in Mexico for decades.

Apparently the average Mexican auto worker makes $3.14 an hour (thanks Google). That's almost 1/10 the hourly wage of a typical American auto worker. For 4000 workers that's a savings of 200 million dollars a year just in labor. After ten years that's 2 billion dollars. Even if it costs a billion dollars to build an auto plant from scratch in Mexico they'd still save another billion dollars after only ten years.

That's a pretty big incentive to relocate. How much of a pay cut can the American workers take to make moving to Mexico unattractive? And I say "unattractive" because it's impossible for it become more profitable than moving.

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This does not mean that sticker prices will be lower. Only that production costs will be lower so that profits will be higher.

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Are the vehicles exempt from important tariffs?