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Originally Posted by Questofthetune
That would be great for the town honestly, it revolves around the plant. But let’s be honest- which of the two options listed usually happens with business? (The close down and outsource one).
As much as I dislike the approach the president has taken with respect to trade, I would never actively root for the failure of an entire town and it’s people just to be right. All the luck to Spartanburg!
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In the past Spartanburg has produced the E36, the Z3 and the Z4 (I have two cars produced from the plant BTW). After the E85/86 Z4, the plant switched entirely to the X-Series BMWs. Again, I'd cry a bit harder if the US domestic content was a bit higher than 37%. The quality of the E36 and Z3 was shit coming from the plant in the 1990s.
The President's approach to trade is still a work in progress IMO. I'll decide the validity of the approach once the issue is negotiated and settled. The global-sourced automotive industry is, as it now is, may not fall under the traditional concepts of "trade war" from the past. I'm will to wait and see.
Also what I laughed about was Hardly-Davidson crying about the EU tariff threat. Not many people remember in the late 1970's how hard AMF-owned Harley-Davidson lobbied the Government to impose strong tariffs on Japanese-made motorcycles of 750CC or above. President Reagan imposed those tariffs on the Japanese industry and saved Harley's ass. The poorly-run AMF H-D would have gone bankrupt had the tariff not been imposed. That and the great economy of the 1980's.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."