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Trump needs to save the auto industry and make American cars great again
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:39 am
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:39 am
Keep China out. Roll back environmental regulations to get rid of these turbo 4 cylinders that explode at 60k. Let them get back to building cars and SUVs that don’t all look the same with a minivan unibody. Get rid of cheap aluminum, plastic body panels and cheap foreign parts.
Stop the electronic surveillance .
Give me a new straight side GMC truck with real buttons, a normal shifter and normally aspirated V8 that gets 10 mpg and doesn’t turn off at every red light if I want it .
Make American cars and trucks great again.
Stop the electronic surveillance .
Give me a new straight side GMC truck with real buttons, a normal shifter and normally aspirated V8 that gets 10 mpg and doesn’t turn off at every red light if I want it .
Make American cars and trucks great again.
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Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:41 am to Summer of Jimbo
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Roll back environmental regulations to get rid of these turbo 4 cylinders that explode at 60k.
Thank you.
Also we know that the effort to make cars as light as possible creates a reliability issue.
Eta.
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Give me a new straight side GMC truck with real buttons,
Any time I get in a rental, I have tk figure all the dash board out.
Make climate control with three frikin knobs.
1. Air temp
2. Air speed
3. What hole will it blow out of.
This post was edited on 5/13/26 at 7:43 am
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:42 am to Summer of Jimbo
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:45 am to Summer of Jimbo
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doesn’t turn off at every red light if I want it .
You can disable this for good with a laptop and an OBDII connector.
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cheap foreign parts.
Yeah, I'd much prefer expensive parts made by a meth head in Ohio over a cheap South Korean part.
quote:
GMC
Certified dumbass.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:45 am to Bunk Moreland
One last thing.
The argument for this is the following.
Aoc said we would all drown by now.
That was a bet she made with time and lost.
It’s only right to tell her that since we didn’t drown, time to make cars great again.
The argument for this is the following.
Aoc said we would all drown by now.
That was a bet she made with time and lost.
It’s only right to tell her that since we didn’t drown, time to make cars great again.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:46 am to dstone12
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Any time I get in a rental, I have tk figure all the dash board out.
It takes me a few minutes to figure out which button or joystick shifts out of park. Who asked every car manufacturer to reinvent a gearshift?
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:47 am to LemmyLives
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Certified dumbass.
You’re missing out chief
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:47 am to dstone12
I'm torn on this one. I'm partial to the big three because of where I live, but if China is putting out great inexpensive EVs that are better than anything we have here, doesn't the American consumer deserve to have that choice?
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:49 am to Summer of Jimbo
What turbo 4s explode at 60k miles?
Also - we must solve the underlying issue which is the American car industry is so broken that it has to do everything it can to limit competition and the record high prices of new cars is significantly hurting American consumers.
Also - we must solve the underlying issue which is the American car industry is so broken that it has to do everything it can to limit competition and the record high prices of new cars is significantly hurting American consumers.
This post was edited on 5/13/26 at 7:52 am
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:51 am to Bunk Moreland
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doesn't the American consumer deserve to have that choice?
No. China is a communist country with a history of human rights violations and they build with slave labor. Our industry can’t compete with that.
If they made a good product on a level playing field sure. But they don’t.
It’s spyware garbage made by 12 year olds.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:52 am to dstone12
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Any time I get in a rental, I have tk figure all the dash board out.
And you probably dont try to figure it out until you are already on the freeway, driving 75 mph.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:53 am to Summer of Jimbo
Glory days
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:56 am to Summer of Jimbo
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No. China is a communist country with a history of human rights violations and they build with slave labor. Our industry can’t compete with that.
If they made a good product on a level playing field sure. But they don’t.
It’s spyware garbage made by 12 year olds.
You must not know about their dark factories
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:56 am to Summer of Jimbo
i heard chinese batteries were much better on their ev cars. can take you 900 miles and then only 30 minutes to recharge.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:57 am to texas tortilla
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i heard chinese batteries were much better on their ev cars.
They also have better displays and tech.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:57 am to Summer of Jimbo
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No. China is a communist country with a history of human rights violations and they build with slave labor. Our industry can’t compete with that.
If they made a good product on a level playing field sure. But they don’t.
It’s spyware garbage made by 12 year olds.
You're almost certainly typing on a keyboard made in China. Why would you use something so evil?
Posted on 5/13/26 at 7:59 am to IMSA_Fan
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What turbo 4s explode at 60k miles?
Buy a new one running 0w 20 (or less) and watch the turbo glow so hot it burns a quart between changes. These engines have a place but it’s not in a 7,500 pound SUV.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 8:01 am to Summer of Jimbo
Some of us just want a truck that acts like a reliable tool. Simple, tough, elegant.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 8:01 am to Summer of Jimbo
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they build with slave labor. Our industry can’t compete with that.
Read the article by the CEO of Ford who toured a Chinese auto factory.
Want to know how many employees there are on the factory floor in a Chinese EV plant?
Zero.
China is beating us in EVs for two reasons:
1 -- they adopted complete automation faster than we did. We are at least a generation behind
2 -- they don't have the legacy health care and retirement costs of millions of retired union employees
Let the Big 3 go bankrupt.
They will be replaced by a new generation of entrepreneurial companies who will bring us the products we want at a lower price. It's the only way.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 8:02 am to CAD703X
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Some of us just want a truck that acts like a reliable tool. Simple, tough, elegant.
Yes! Just give us a choice again if that’s what we want. The environmental regs have taken that ability away .
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