Are you excited about the new Ford Model Trump?

[Anonymous]

No way this would have happened in USA without the push of you know who. The new assembly line producing the new Model Trump. I doubt they call it that, but you can add your own sticker and custom license plate.

$30,000+ plus, that makes vehicles affordable!

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/ford-invests-5b-kentucky-michigan-plants-new-affordable-electric-pickup-truck-production

Yes

Not so much

Don't care

[exitseven]

I am not interested in owning an electric vehicle at this time. However the new manufacturing process that will bring down the price of vehicles could be used on other product lines in the future making for a more affordable, American made vehicle.

[DrPepper12]

www.theatlantic.com/.../

Last year, Ford CEO Jim Farley commuted in a car that wasn’t made by his own company. In an effort to scope out the competition, Farley spent six months driving around in a Xiaomi SU7. The Chinese-made electric sedan is one of the world’s most impressive cars: It can accelerate faster than many Porsches, has a giant touch screen that lets you turn off the lights at your house, and comes with a built-in AI assistant—all for roughly $30,000 in China. “It’s fantastic,” Farley said about the Xiaomi SU7 on a podcast last fall. “I don’t want to give it up.”

Ford was able to import a Xiaomi $20-30K electric vehicle from Shanghai for testing purposes, but for now, regular Americans cannot buy the SU7 or another one of the many affordable and highly advanced EVs made in China. Stiff tariffs and restrictions on Chinese technology have kept them out of the U. S. If things changed, Ford—along with all other automakers in the U. S.—would be in serious danger. Chinese EVs can be so cheap and high tech that they risk outcompeting all cars, not just electric ones. In the rest of the world, traditional automakers are already struggling as Chinese cars hit the market. In Europe, Chinese brands now have roughly as much share of the market as Mercedes-Benz. “We are in a global competition with China,” Farley said earlier this year. “And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act just gutted many EV subsidies and incentives that would have helped America catch up to China.

[exitseven]

@DrPepper12 I suppose there is still a big advantage to having a labor force that will work for one bowl of rice a day.

[Anonymous]

Didn't they already try this?

Dealerships that have been ford dealerships for generations have dropped for and are now selling used cars because they can't make a profit as ford forces them to push their EV vehicles that no one is buying and the dealership has to buy them from ford, they don't get a choice.

[Anonymous]

Bent over cheeks flapping. How embarrassing for them to be on the wrong side of history.

[Asker]

and they lost their tax credits too...
maybe if cheap enough... whose the market? I dunno...

[genericname85]

honestly i find real life better than any comedy movie at the moment. i can't take that shit seriously anymore and you gotta admit, "Ford Model Trump" is hilarious as fuck xD the fact that this isn't even a joke and this is actually real life makes it even more funny to me.

[abc3643]

Forget the Trump shit, but, yes, this is a good thing if Ford can find a way to create EVs more cheaply. A starting price of 30 k$ is the target and they believe they can do it. This could be a game-changing technological improvement.

[AyChingao]

What does it do? Promise to get you where ever on time then die on the way and blame the gas, squealing that it was the damn Mexicans that refined it? Nah... I'll opt for something that delivers what is advertised.

[OneViewpoint]

Well it's a Ford product. And it's not just a new platform. It's new technology. Being released in 2027. Anyone who thinks about buying one before 2037 is insane. Ford WILL fuck this up royally.

[kavakava]

Why do you think that's the name of the truck? I know, I wouldn't buy an electric car. Democrats really love them and pushed for it, but when Elon help cut out fraud and waste they hated teslas. And if Trump's name really is on his truck they will hate it also, and we'll go back to loving gas cars

[Anonymous]

Does anyone other than you call this a Model Trump?

[Asker]

not I know of

[andreasderjuengere]

A dick-up truck indeed deserves this embarrassing type name :D

I am excited... for different reasons, heh heh.

[FreyaRed]

Those Ford Pickups look since decade the same. It's ugly and unsexy by design.

[DrPepper12]

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USA cars are pos 💩

[purplepoppy]

Nah, I'll stick with Japanese cars.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get the hype of electric vehicles

[FunkyMonkee]

Then, why the fuck would YOU call it that?