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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by VintageCool on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:52AM (#21503732)
Americans generally don't buy American cars, right? We buy American-made trucks.

The US imposed a 25% tax on imported light trucks and has for decades (the "chicken tax"). I think that this has resulted in a weird distortion where American auto makers focus heavily on that one more profitable market segment, and advertise most heavily on that one market segment, and have done so for generations.

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:58AM (#21504057)
I think the Ford F-150 is the best-selling vehicle made by US companies.

There's a reason that Musk is building a Tesla truck.

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