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      Honestly a lot of cars are already made in Mexico, just badged with an American logo

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        Or VW. They’ve be making licensed Jettas and Golf for decades, not to mention all the classic Beetles for so long.

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          I know Brazil also makes a ton of VWs, or at least they used to. My old mk4 Golf was built there

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            Brazil made all cars for its domestic market and put massive tariffs on anything else. So they ran local factories for Ford, GM and VW all with domestic variants. I don’t think they really ever sold outside South America though, or maybe even outside Brazil. There are some weird, neat variants from there that I’d love to get a chance to own at some point, mostly VW car-trucks.

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              They also build FIAT cars. They carried and uodated a few 90’s models well into the 2000’s and design a few models that made their way to the EU market, with minimal changes.

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                Yeah I’d forgotten that Fiat sold its designs to anyone. That’s where the Lada Riva came from too.

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        the car parts that are made in Mexico are almost always higher quality than at the american plants, too

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      I can imagine a future in which these become more common in the US than ridiculous US trucks.