Ford and GM are only a fraction of the auto industry in the US. The majority of sales are foreign brands, but none of them can compete as companies against the entire nation of China and its willingness to put them all out of business and takeover said auto industry. They own the mines, materials, and labor and have bottomless pockets to subsidize their vehicles and dell them well below cost.

How is any company supposed to compete against that?

[–] msage@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Make better products?

Like every car from not China sucks hard, but they keep going on about prices.

None of them ever tried to make good cars.

Then yoy can get comparatively better cars for much cheaper? It's not like you have much of a choice.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol this is a very naive, internet-brained take. Have you actually driven all these cars along with their Chinese counterparts? What makes every non-Chinese car suck so badly exactly? Is it because they're not selling $60k cars for $15k?

[–] msage@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who wants 60k car full of surveillance and badly designed tech?

Slate had the right idea, but Bezos is involved, so we will see.

But every major brand has lost the plot a decade ago, they all took massive amounts of money from government and did fuck all with it and gobbled each other up. Now they act shocked that people prefer anything other than the 6 brands that remained.

[–] PartiallyApplied@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I agree that Slate has an interesting idea but they have an uphill battle with the marketing. Unfortunately, the US, to a great extent, particularly the rural US, sees electric cars as being “more tech”, which they equate with more frustration. Naturally EVs actually could likely have simpler computer systems than ICE cars, but, for instance Tesla chose to slap a huge iPad in their cars when consumers want dials.

For all the technical superiority of EVs, it’s hard to convince the average person that they should drive a novel looking “high-tech” vehicle, when a Toyota Camry is an easily available, affordable option. Most people with F150s don’t need them, they want them. Slate isn’t competing for those people, it’s competing for the people who buy Impreza’s, Corollas, and Camrys. I’m not sure it’ll work out.

For an industrial on-site work truck for running errands, I’d bet they sell like hot cakes, but that’s a much smaller market.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By maybe not massively inflating the price of their cars and manufacturing their vehicles closer to local markets? Like idk what to tell you, it just sounds like youre mad because china is better at capitalism lol

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

How much should these cars be selling for then? Can you give me a breakdown with your expert knowledge? Can you also explain why it is that every automaker in the world outside of China is participating in this alleged price fixing scheme rather than undercutting each other?

How many cars are being built far outside their local markets? What ones specifically? How much is this adding to the cost of these vehicles?

Let's see some actual facts.