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Originally Posted by bringonthenite
BMW saves in labour costs and imports the cars into the USA and Canada via NAFTA. We still pay a higher price while BMW makes more offshore profits.
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I think you'd probably need to take a long hard look at the market BMW competes in. They have to lower their costs TO SURVIVE. BMW makes similar profits to their main two competitors and they ALL are looking for ways to save. If BMW falls behind it'd end up bought out by a competitor or worse.
Nobody is padding any pockets here. It is a race to stay in the same place. And for survival.
If you get exactly the same product but in one case was built by one German and in the other by a Chinese, what is it to you what the company's internal cost structure is???