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Re:German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate sca... by pqtyw on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:15PM (#44099408)
What US competitors? Tesla is the only single American company that has had any success besides maybe Ford (but Ford Europe has a similar relationship to it's American parent company that Opel and GM used to have i.e. in a large part it's an European company)
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Re:German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate sca... by neilv on Monday May 26, 2025 @02:47PM (#44100352)
I'm not sure only the German market was meant by OP.

VW has international sales, and OP's implication might've been that Germany has a national interest in VW being competitive.

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Re:German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate sca... by pqtyw on Monday May 26, 2025 @04:23PM (#44101315)
> only the German market

Well yes, I of course meant the entire EU+UK market. Regardless besides US and a handful of other countries VW is hardly competing that much with any American car companies anywhere (besides Tesla).

American car makers are still struggling a lot more in relative market share terms (GM+Ford+Tesla barely had over 33% in 2024 in the US). While VW alone had 26% in EU/UK/EFTA (just German companies have 39% of the entire market there)

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