Only one of the three is body on frame and it’s Ford’s

Because it’s standard practice in China to just close a company and restart it under a new name. The government can decide to shut down everything overnight.

Look at parts availability for stuff sold by Chinese brands.

American manufacturers need to provide parts for 10 years after the last of the same model car rolled off the assembly line. Good luck forcing Chinese brands to respect that.

They still build the only real EV truck though

It reminds me of that Black Mirror episode where people have memory chips to allow them to relive everything they’ve ever lived.

That preservation comes at a cost though, both monetary and environmental, and the amount of data to preserve increases exponentially.

Why should we care? Never in our history have we chronicled all the mundane things like we find on the internet. It’s like saying we need to archive all the kids drawings or all the personal journals or record all in person conversations and archive them… Just because it’s digital data that can be archived if we feel like it doesn’t mean it’s important.

Wouldn’t that open the door to the bill being declared illegal since you didn’t consent to the services?

Well that last part is a US specific issue and people have the right to refuse treatment

Fiat still has the 500 in EV version but was still selling the gas 500 not too long ago, Chevy has the Bolt, there’s a bunch of small CUVs as well…

European cars that aren’t offered here are not imported mostly out of protectionism for North American jobs, European manufacturers could sell their cars here if they were willing to deal with the tariffs or build factories on our side of the pond…

That’s when you take your business to the manufacturers who offer what you want. Mazda, Kia, Hyundai…

Yes it ended up affecting Canada in the end, especially with the pandemic reducing car production all over the world, but it still shows that if Americans had truly wanted small cars they would have bought it and they would still be offered, but the truth is that the vast majority of people who say they want small cars won’t buy them new and by the time they’re ready to buy a new car they have a family or are thinking about it and now they want a bigger car.

Again, a much smaller market where all cars need to be imported was still getting them (including base model diesels) while they weren’t available in the USA. If people don’t buy them new then why do they expect manufacturers to keep offering them?

Hell, Quebec, a single province, kept getting the Toyota Echo (IIRC) longer than the rest of Canada because so many were sold there and it’s not the only time this has happened, they buy hatchbacks and station wagons, they’re getting models not available in the rest of Canada and the US. It’s a market of 8 millions in a sea of 370 millions!

They’re honestly minuscule, even compared to a Honda Fit…

I see people complaining about the death of small cars and yet Canada, which is 10% of the US market, was buying enough of them that manufacturers kept selling them even when they were discontinued in the US… So maybe people just weren’t buying them in the US even when they were offered, right?

One where the crumple zone is you, the other is actually safe…

Fiat Panda, nothing new about it

Aaaand you’re low-key defending authoritarianism…

But if you’re anti fascism but pro authoritarianism, you’re still wrong…

You can have a non-US centric point of view without defending Russia or Chinese genocides…

Aaaand… Again…

But nice story though…

Again, not the same thing.