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[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by johan

Solstice and Sky aren't American. They are badge engineered versions of the Opel Speedster. British built.

BZZZZZZ wrong. Both were as American as apple pie and Mustangs. They were built from the ground up in the US on a GM platform. I spent a week at the plant in 2007.
I believe the Opels were built in Germany on the GM designed platform and were actually just a rebadged Sky or Solstice don't remember which.

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by finch1750

So its great for a week and spends 2 months in the shop?

No way! It's got Chrysler relia...






Oh.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by finch1750

It would tax everything imported no matter where the parent company is registered. So even Fords or Chevys made in Mexico and Canada would be subject to it. But cars built here like the Subaru Forestor wouldnt be

I think that was the idea. Except for stuff made in Canada. Apparently we will get "special" treatment in any such process.
Nobody dares to anger Canada!

[guybo]

The only 20% import tax I am aware of are imports from Mexico. Japan is not going to get a 20% tariff, nor are imports from other countries.

The 20% Mexican tariff is to fund the building of Trump's wall. I didn't read that article, but I clicked, read the first paragraph and realized it's only click bait.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by finch1750

So its great for a week and spends 2 months in the shop?

The two guys that I knew with them had no real issues. It was more Mercedes than Chrysler anyway. Another case of a car that the internet loved to rip apart without ever actually owning or driving one.

[why?]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Hmmm not the reaction I was expecting from the Japanese biased mob. They were indeed all good cars and many of the American complaints are the same we hear on the Triplets. They just could not compete with the muscle cars that people wanted them to be or the JDM/DDM Yo crowds.

Not sure if we had the gxp or redlines here. If we did I have never seen one and they don't show up in Autotrader. A nice clean SRT6 can be had for around $20K though.

I'm only Japanese biased because they make the cars I want. You should have seen the spreadsheet I created before I bought my Yaris. I literally went to fueleconomy.gov and started with every car available. Only the Yaris was the best two door car that had the best gas mileage.

If GM made a fiero now, or heck if Toyota made an MR2, I very well would have ended up in that instead of the BRZ. The new offerings from GM are pretty good quality wise, and I'm a huge ford fan, so many of their good to great cars go totally unnoticed because they don't advertise them. Had a friend with a Mercury mystique and man could that thing handle. I owned a 94 Taurus SHO that was awesome. I would be interested in the Focus RS if it wasn't part time front wheel drive biased awd. Had a friend with a Fiero, and the front seat of that was bigger than the twins. The Mustang ecoboost is a great car, but gas mileage is horrific. Enough ranting, lol, where's my rising sun flag gone too?

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by guybo

The only 20% import tax I am aware of are imports from Mexico. Japan is not going to get a 20% tariff, nor are imports from other countries.

The 20% Mexican tariff is to fund the building of Trump's wall. I didn't read that article, but I clicked, read the first paragraph and realized it's only click bait.

Ah. I didn't realize we were talking about the mexico one specifically. I was reading another proposal recently about an overhaul on corporate tax code that would effect everything like I was saying. Or maybe Im totally mixing shit up and have no idea what I'm saying. So many links lately my brain is on overload.

But yeah, the 20% thing is cars from Mexico only. Guess I should have read the link lol

[stevesnj]

Days before a group of Republican lawmakers were due to discuss their party's controversial proposal to tax all imports, Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) sent an urgent message to its U.S. dealers - tell the politicians the tax would seriously hurt car buyers.

We reading the same article? lol

[why?]

Originally Posted by finch1750

Ah. I didn't realize we were talking about the mexico one specifically. I was reading another proposal recently about an overhaul on corporate tax code that would effect everything like I was saying. Or maybe Im totally mixing shit up and have no idea what I'm saying. So many links lately my brain is on overload.

But yeah, the 20% thing is cars from Mexico only. Guess I should have read the link lol

that was one proposal that literally came from nowhere, and the 20% is higher than was ever quoted before, far too high do what was intended.

Something will be done, we have no idea what it might be yet. It is really really early.

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by why?

Something will be done, we have no idea what it might be yet. It is really really early.

Yep. Clickbait type speculation pieces.

You think politcal forums have threads like we do?

OP:
I heard after mid terms elections their gonna boost xyz tax credit. Should I do abc now or wait til after?

Response 1:
My buddy's cousin is a clerk for a top Senator and just told me this is true the other day

Response 2:
Yeah, i just saw the same thing on uspolitics.au

[Overdrive]

Originally Posted by johan

Solstice and Sky aren't American. They are badge engineered versions of the Opel Speedster. British built.

I know you've been somewhat corrected already (in typical Tcoat fashion), but the Opel you're thinking about is the Opel GT. Badge engineered in the other direction.

[Cole]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Hmmm not the reaction I was expecting from the Japanese biased mob. They were indeed all good cars and many of the American complaints are the same we hear on the Triplets. They just could not compete with the muscle cars that people wanted them to be or the JDM/DDM Yo crowds.

Not sure if we had the gxp or redlines here. If we did I have never seen one and they don't show up in Autotrader. A nice clean SRT6 can be had for around $20K though.

I've seen a handful of the gxp and redlines up here. I always thought they were super cool cars, and I'm kind of kicking myself for not looking into any of them when I was car shopping.

[johan]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

BZZZZZZ wrong. Both were as American as apple pie and Mustangs. They were built from the ground up in the US on a GM platform. I spent a week at the plant in 2007.
I believe the Opels were built in Germany on the GM designed platform and were actually just a rebadged Sky or Solstice don't remember which.

bzzzz you're wrong lol.

I worked for GM in 2000 when Opel debuted the platform and they were talking about building the American versions off of it.

[johan]

Originally Posted by Overdrive

I know you've been somewhat corrected already (in typical Tcoat fashion), but the Opel you're thinking about is the Opel GT. Badge engineered in the other direction.

nope. I was on the inside at GM on this when the platform was being developed in Europe.