Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 days agoFormer GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturerswww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square291fedilinkarrow-up1724arrow-down115file-text
arrow-up1709arrow-down1external-linkFormer GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturerswww.nytimes.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 days agomessage-square291fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up80·8 days agoIf you’re one of the largest and oldest car manufacturers in the world and the most “innovative” thing you’ve managed to do in the last 20 years is rebrand Buick into a young family brand, then you probably need some good competition.
minus-squareQuarterSwede@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·8 days agoDon’t forget the courage to not support CarPlay/Android Auto … just stupid.
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·8 days ago the most “innovative” thing you’ve managed to do in the last 20 years is rebrand Buick … then you simply have no excuse anymore to exist at all.
minus-squarejubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·8 days agoWell they wouldn’t if not for that hefty bailout by the American taxpayers that they got back in 2008.
minus-squareTiger666@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·8 days agoFord was the only one not to take a buyout, FYI. Ford wouldn’t survive BYD either, though. Greed rules the Western world.
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·8 days ago In September 2009, Ford entered into an agreement with the Department of Energy and borrowed $5.9 billion https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2020/07/29/ford-government-loan-department-energy-debt/5526413002/ They still hadn’t paid it back in full in 2022.
minus-squarepsycho_driver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days ago P.S. Actually the average american would be benefited from that Ford has been busy corporate decisioning itself into irrelevance for decades now. The only reason Ford is even still around is the F series.
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-28 days agoGM, maker of horribly shitty cars, and yeah, the Corvette, we know. We’ve seen it, GM. “do you want to see the C9?” …of course I would.
If you’re one of the largest and oldest car manufacturers in the world and the most “innovative” thing you’ve managed to do in the last 20 years is rebrand Buick into a young family brand, then you probably need some good competition.
Don’t forget the courage to not support CarPlay/Android Auto … just stupid.
… then you simply have no excuse anymore to exist at all.
Well they wouldn’t if not for that hefty bailout by the American taxpayers that they got back in 2008.
Ford was the only one not to take a buyout, FYI.
Ford wouldn’t survive BYD either, though.
Greed rules the Western world.
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2020/07/29/ford-government-loan-department-energy-debt/5526413002/
They still hadn’t paid it back in full in 2022.
Ford has been busy corporate decisioning itself into irrelevance for decades now. The only reason Ford is even still around is the F series.
GM, maker of horribly shitty cars, and yeah, the Corvette, we know. We’ve seen it, GM.
“do you want to see the C9?”
…of course I would.