Mexico just rugged leafs?

to be fair F-150s are still made assembled in the US and increased costs don't matter when you're buying on credit anyway.

Experts: Tariffs would boost new car prices by thousands, lead to massive layoffs

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2025/02/03/trump-tariffs-new-car-prices-layoffs-canada-mexico/78179356007/

Car Prices Face $3,000 Increase as Automakers Worry Over Tariffs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-02/car-prices-face-3-000-increase-as-trump-tariffs-hit-auto-sector

It also doesn't make a lot of sense to look for mostly American-made cars. If the price of a Volkswagen Taos, assembled in Mexico, goes up by 25%, Ford will likely raise the price of its competing Bronco, made near Detroit, too.

Apple, Nvidia And Tesla Among Hardest Hit As Tariffs Drag Down Stock Market

American car companies, an industry heavily reliant on Canadian and Mexican imports, also flailed, with car stocks declining across the board, including Ford (-1%), General Motors (-1%), Jeep parent Stellantis (-3%) and Elon Musk-led Tesla (-5%), though losses were much thinner than they were earlier, when Ford and Tesla traded down 5% and 7%, respectively.

Tesla was particularly battered as it joined Apple (-4%) and Nvidia (-2%), as American multinational companies with the highest proportion of sales in China.

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Major U.S. equity indices (for example, the Dow Jones initially dropped by around 2–2.5% in its early swings—even though much of that loss was partially recovered later in the day—and other indexes such as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq showed similar early‐session declines) suggest that, overall, the market's value dropped by roughly 2% in the opening minutes. If we assume that the total U.S. equity market was valued at on the order of US $50 trillion at that time (a reasonable ball‐park figure for the combined large‐, mid‐ and small‐cap segments in 2025), then a 2% decline translates to about

0.02 × $50 trillion ≈ $1 trillion

In other words, in the immediate aftermath of Trump's tariff announcement, U.S. stockholders saw roughly US $1 trillion of market capitalization evaporate.

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When Mexico created its National Guard and began using it for federal security tasks—including efforts to stem drug trafficking and manage migration—the deployments were significant. Several reports indicate that by late 2019 Mexico was already fielding a force on the order of 10,000–12,000 personnel along its northern border (the border it shares with the United States) to help control illegal crossings and disrupt drug smuggling networks. For example, analysis from organizations like WOLA noted that the National Guard was rapidly integrated into border security roles soon after its creation, with numbers in the same general range as what is being announced now.

In terms of sheer numbers, the 10,000‐person figure does not represent a dramatic scaling up compared to the deployments that began in 2019. The current effort appears to be a continuation—and in some respects a slight recalibration—of a border security strategy that has been in place for several years. The main difference, then, is not so much the size of the force but the political context.