They make a shit load of cars.

We be like "I CAN'T BUILD"

>>212788475 (OP)
Because their economy is massive that manufacturing is still only a relatively small part of it. Plus most of their manufacturing is in b2b industries, so the average person doesnt interact that much with it.

>>212788475 (OP)
Are those cars mostly bought mostly on the domrstic market? American cars have completely disappointment from European roads, you don't even see Ford here anymore.

>>212789104
Yes. Also, the largest car manufacturers apart from Tesla are foreign.

>>212789104
The Fords in Europe are made in Cologne but all the european and japanese automakers also produce their cars for the american market in America (or Mexico)

>>212788475 (OP)
Watch this soytuber's saga trying to make a fully 100% american product to understand: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY
It's crazy the extent china has taken over. He couldn't find America-made screws and chainmail for cheap. The impression I get is that American industry largely assembles parts which now largely come from china rather than the US

>>212788475 (OP)
industrial grade appliances from america are still top tier.

>>212789104
Germans buy random US minivan models for like 70k euros as imports and will show them off to me and enthusiastically point them out to me in imported car listing magazines they have when I visit and I have to pretend to be enthusiastic about them.

>>212789342
We produce and shape steel parts and run a lot of CNCs in the midwest but there is just no reason to make our own fasteners generally when they're so cheap from China.

Which brings us back to the whole tariffs shifting industry back here by creating opportunities for cost leadership thing. I don't know if these tariffs are nearly enough though.
It's not like we just lost the arcane knowledge of making screws or something.

>>212788475 (OP)
CHina relied on firstie machine tool and robots to power their industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u8-OoFboNE

>>212789104
US has a population of 340 million people, and their auto industry accounts for $1T. Not only do they make their own cars, they also have high tariffs on international cars, so they have to be manufactured there.

Also, Boeing+UT+Sikorsky+Northrop Grumman+Raytheon is another $500B.

Just cars + planes/defense is 60% of US's manufacturing.

>>212789454
As a industry and manufacturing fan I wish your country great luck in re industrialization. I wish brapzil had industrialized harder back in the 1900's or some shit

>>212789454
>Which brings us back to the whole tariffs shifting industry back here by creating opportunities for cost leadership thing. I don't know if these tariffs are nearly enough though.
There's also the fact that the vast majority of Americans would rather not work in manufacturing.

>>212788475 (OP)
italy used to be way higher, we were the china of europe before globalization

We still have manufacturing jobs?
Wow
Nowadays, the only jobs here are stocking supermarket shelves or sales

>>212789966
Yes, automotive industry makes up 15% of your manufacturing. Then you have copper/iron/steel, which makes up another another 10%, and then shipbuilding, which is another 10%.

Japanese shipbuilding used to be higher, then it shrank.

automotive industry is kinda cringe I like semiconductor manufacturing more. Texas Instruments has some fab kino. Hope Intel builds their new US plant in less than 10 years

>>212790270
I dunno man. Intel's been on a firing spree lately.

>>212790318
no why fuck this shit I can't take it anymore

>>212789104
Not true at all tho. I see more Mustangs than Porsche and they’re actually driven by Germans vs the Porsche by Mohammad for some reason.

>>212790530
To be fair those are middle management aka bureaucracy bean counters although I wouldn’t put it past the chink CEO to ruin the company in their eternal clitty leakage about white men.