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Originally Posted by niky
Protectionist policies like that have virtually ensured that no American made car is competitive outside the home market. Not unless it's an American-branded car that's actually designed and built outside the USA.
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Actually, some newer models from Cadillac and Lincoln do look competitive towards their European and Japanese contenders. The problem is that American cars and light commercial vehicles became somewhat more "specialized" either in exercizes of gross excess or some luxury-oriented landyachts that may justify the higher cost of designing and manufacturing in America while their counterparts developed in other countries have a broader appeal.