President Trump used the key to the future of the US automotive industry in the campaign before the victory of the election in November 2024, because he made some bold commitments to promote the domestic period of the president increase.
In September, in a speech in front of a group of people in Savannah, Georgia, the tax benefits proposed by the current president were foreign car manufacturers who were willing to open a store in the United States, and threatened those who dared to import cars to the United States soil. people.
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“I hope that the German car company will become an American car company. I hope they will build plants here.” Trump said.
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He said: “I will give you the minimum taxation, the lowest energy cost, the lowest regulatory burden, and can enter the best and largest market on the earth, but the premise is that you make products in the United States.”
“If you are not creating products here, when you send the product to the United States, you will have to pay tariffs, very important tariffs.”
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No replacement of American car production
According to a new report from the German commercial publication HandelsBlatt, Trump’s threat to imported goods’ tariffs on imported goods worry that the country’s car manufacturers, including one of the world’s largest Volkswagen Group.
Trump regards the term “tariff” as “the most beautiful words in the dictionary”, but the threat of tariffs is not particularly optimistic of Vee-Dub. Sources close to the situation told the publication that Volkswagen Group is considering transferring Porsche and Audi car binding to the United States to the United States
The HandelsBlatt report did not mention which specific Porsche or Audi models were built in the United States, or when the public transferred its production line in the United States, it did mention that the new South Carolina State Factory aims to be the Volkswagen’s new Boy Army E -motor EV EV The brand provides some space for Audi production.
The new factory of Scout Motors is currently constructed in Blythewood, South Carolina, with a price of $ 2 billion. New factories of scouts will hire about 4,000 workers and will produce off -road travelers SUV, Terra Pickup. And some gasoline driver harvesters series hybridization models.
The report also mentioned that the production of Audi and Porsche may also be carried out in the Volkswagen Factory in Chatta Nurka, Tennessee. At present, the labor force produces the mass of the mass ATLAS SUV and the Volkswagen ID.4 electric cross.
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“[The Europeans] President Trump said
Porsche and Audi are unstable in terms of tariffs, because German luxury goods and performance car brands do not produce any cars in the United States. The German commercial publication report was due to President Trump’s 25 % tariffs on imports and Canada imports in Mexico.
In addition, he also vowed to punish the EU based on tariffs based on “fairness”.
He said on January 21: “The European Union is very bad for us.”
“They don’t take our car. They don’t take our car at all. […] We have a deficit of $ 350 billion in the European Union. They are very, very bad. Therefore, they will get tariffs. ”
Porsche’s top American seller compact Macan Crossover SUV is currently shared by Lezipig and Panamera sedan in Lezipig, Germany. Almost all Porsche lineups were manufactured in Germany, except for the Cayan S EV manufactured in Bradeslava, Slovakia and Malaysia.
Audi manufactured vehicles in various places outside Germany, except the United States. Its best -selling vehicle in the United States is the Q5 cross -border SUV. In 2018, the production of North American variants shifted from Ing Stert in Germany to Santa Saipa in Mexico.
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Volkswagen is said to be an unstable moment for German brands, because its year -end sales did not promise in 2024.
Volkswagen Group’s global sales fell by 2.3 % in 2024, although automobile manufacturers sold more than 9 million vehicles. In their electric vehicles, the group delivered 744,800 electric vehicles last year, a 3.4 % decrease from 2023.
However, the sales of Porsche and the Audi brand show that American buyers are avoiding its high -quality products.
Although the sales of its multi -produced 718 and 911 sports cars increased year -on -year, the sales of Porsche Macan in the United States fell by about 6.56 %, from 26,947 vehicles in 2023 to 25,180 vehicles in 2024.
The situation in Audi is much worse, because many of the United States’ sales in the four ring models have dropped double -digit. Its best -selling book “Q5” decreased by 23 % year -on -year in the United States, from 74,145 vehicles in 2023 to 56,799 in 2024.
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