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Trump announces 'permanent' tariffs on foreign cars

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Trump announces 'permanent' tariffs on foreign cars – DW – 03/26/2025

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Please europe, I beg you. 100% tariff on those fucking emotional support trucks.
Im going to start blowing them up soon otherwise.
- Do we actually have clowns buying them over here? I didn't even think they were road legal anywhere
  
  In poland theres more of them each month. I fucking hate it so much.
  Assholes in „rural” areas (10mins to city center) buy them and then parade in their fucking tanks. They are always the most polished and detailed cars on the intersection. I drive a larger car myself (not a suv, a big coupe) but it looks like a toy compared to a dodge ram. Those fuckers wouldn’t even be able to see a matiz in front of them.
  
  There's one in the garage of my apartment building. All i can think about when I see it is what a giant douche bag you have to be to buy something like that while living in a big city.
  
  I think you think this thread is talking about the cybertruck but they're just talking about regular pick up trucks.
  
  You barely see any pick up trucks in Europe (or at least in Austria). I know like one or two farmers who have one and that's it.
  People who like big cars buy SUVs here.
  
  Unfortunately I do see them (a bit) in the Netherlands... Something them being a tax loophole for entrepreneurs (but they're supposedly closing it). Definitely niche though, indeed the emotional support vehicles are the big German SUVs...
  
  I live in a small rural town in Ireland. I'm seeing more and more ridiculously huge pickups that are simply too big for the parking spots. They're fucking awful
  
  Yeah. An ex coworker of mine deemed it necessary to drive such a wankpanzer in our medium-sized german city over the astonishing distance of 5 kilometres to/from work.
  
  Those are even legal in Europe? Some dude imported one here, as an impulse buy, as he had won a large money prize on Euro Millions, and it had the nastiest of ends, as he jammed the thing between two building in a narrow street. The car was cut to pieces on the spot, to be removed. The rumour mill spoke of nearly 75.000€ to the trash.
  
  I saw a bunch in the Netherlands (in smaller towns and villages) and a few in Czechia.
  
  NL has supposedly cracked down on the tax loophole which made these attractive to b entrepreneurs (something about imported vehicles), so hopefully we start seeing less of them over time.
- They are already tariffed af. Due to emissions.
- The F-150 is imported into Europe, but you can not buy them at normal Ford dealerships, because they are so unpopular. Indeed most Fords sold in Europe are actually designed in Germany....

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