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Volkswagen plans :marseythebuilder: to shut at least three :marseyexeggcutor: German :marseytranshitler: plants, axe tens of thousands of jobs and slash :marseycutwrist: pay by 10%

https://www.ft.com/content/a7721c5f-164d-4793-b413-1bd8dd45f1a1

The restructuring would :marseywood: mark the first :marseywinner: closure of domestic :marseybatteredwoman: plants :marseyplant: in the company's 87-year history :marseyjohnson: and set it up for a battle :marseypunching: with powerful unions in Germany, where :marseydrama: VW has 300,000 employees. There :marseycheerup: are 10 plants :marseyplant: which are part of the VW's core brand and could potentially be closed.

:#marseyitsover: :#itsjoever2: :#carpitsover: :#marseyitsoveryall: :#capyitsover: :#marseytrumpitsover: :#marseytariqitsover:

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The West's :marseymutt: time building cars :marseysteer: has finished.

It's time for superior Chinese :marseysalutechina: cars :marseysteerchingchong: to take the wheel

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I dont trust chinx cars. Theres something sus about them.

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Probably either catches fire occasionally or the battery life is shit.... its like a monkeys paw when you deal with them

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I remember watching a documentary about how some chinese car manufacturer wanted to expand to europe but got cockblocked by regulations. It turns out the car 1) had no crumple zone and 2) was made of something like aluminium and plastic. They showed the impact test footage and as a result the car would literally turn into a pancake upon impact at relatively slow speeds, which they compared to a passat or some other car of similar dimensions which had a nice accordeon-like compression of its front-end and left the passengers mostly intact.

It's amazing how shit you can make a car if you try hard enough.

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this is meaningless without some statistics.

How many lives are saved each year by EU-regulated cars? how much do we pay extra per life?

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Btw !commenters, I couldn't find the doc I was talking about but I'm fairly sure this is the impact test that they showed there. You really have to see this for yourself because words don't do it justice

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LMAO chinx get rekt

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LMAO crashworthiness of a 60 year old car :marseylaugh!: :marseychingchong:

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Based :marseychingchong: using engineering to remove the Asian bad driver genes from the reproduction pool.

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I don't know and I don't care. My actions are motivated not by empiricism but by my disdain for Chinese

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Yeh quick battery charging in 11 mins sounds like something that shouldnt exist for a car.

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It would probably generate a crazy amount of heat if it was real.

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And 0% chance the airbags work

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I saw a clip of a Chinese car crashing and there was a half second delay between the impact and the air bags deploying :marseydeat#hpose:

I'd sooner trust the takata airbags in a 2004 CR-V

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i would take that zeeker without airbags over any car sold in america

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/uj I agree

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Would you trust a chinese person to make sure your family is safe going at highway speeds? Of course not

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https://media.tenor.com/335LTSJmMmEAAAAx/trust-but.webp


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17310210407557678.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17323179881945593.webp

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Can China even make an ICE? Unironically every engine I've ever seen from there has been a copy of a existing engine. 0 home grown

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When great wall motors needed a motor for their shitty truck thing, they used a copy of the Mitsubishi Orion 4G64 engine.( no relation to the Evolution 4G63 turbo engine which was kino)

The 4G64 was designed in the 1980s and was famous for using as much oil as it did fuel. So a 40 year old engine, re engineered by the Chinese

Lmao

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I imagine that's why they're so hyped about EVs. All they need to make one of those is 4 motors and a battery

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It was essentially THE plan, Chinks knew trying to catch up with Europe, US or Japan, all of whom have 100+ years of experience building ICE, was stupid. Electric motors are simple in comparison, and they didn't need massive investment there, so they went all in on battery R&D.

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BEVs are simpler than an ICE it's basically a smart phone on wheels.

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Can't wait for my VW EV to slam right into a tree at 140 mph because the podcast I was listening to refered to Taiwan as a country.

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Apparently driving in China is very chaotic.

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