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Originally Posted by jpd80
Toyota was also living on borrowed time after it lost its huge Middle East export contract
to a lower cost plant elsewhere, even Butner couldn’t make the figures work…
And really, our auto industry existed beyond the 2000s simply because the government willed it,
buying up significant amounts of vehicles for government fleets and coinvesting In development.
Once those two cornerstones were removed, it was simply a mater of time…
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Those manufacturing and assembly plants needed a production volume of 120,000 + vehicles per annum each.
There was no where near that volume available for any of the 3 after the first 5 years of the 2000’s.
It’s actually a minor miracle it all lasted until about 2015 / 2016