Crollo storico: l’industria automobilistica tedesca crolla mentre le importazioni cinesi e la crisi statunitense distruggono il mercato
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Historic-crash-German-car-industry-collapses-as-Chinese-imports-and-US-slump-destroy-market.1258707.0.html
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I’m an expat in Germany. I’ve been looking for a new car for awhile and simply having talks with Audi (dealers) is a pain. Being in Sales myself I have the feeling I’m constantly being fooled. Not sure if the reasons in the title are the only ”external” ”macro” factors that bring this sector down. Also, the pricing is insane and only increasing. Last time I mailed a dealer about the last time it had an official ”check” I got mailed back: Lots of enquires come for this car. You can have a 500,00 EUR discount if you’d like to. How does that even go together and it’s not answering my question.
Chinese EV’s are cheaper and increasingly better than their German counterparts. The only reason I see people wanting to buy German vehicles is out of some misplaced European solidarity with the German car industry. Thankfully not something we have to care about in Britain.
Check who is selling the most cars here…it’s for sure not China 🤣
The ultimate sign that the German automotive industry might be in trouble is that they have to undercut Dacia with their pricing, at least in Hungary. The cheapest new VW Polo is actually cheaper than the cheapest Dacia Sandero. Only by about 50 euros, but still cheaper. And the Dacia is better equipped.
Buying an IC car nowadays is the equivalent of sending a romantic letter in the smartphone era. It is cute, but highly unpractical.
Specially now, with the recent oil crysis.
All that as it may be, Germany is still leading the car production market with over 4 mil units produced annually.
The profit loss is the real pain for them … and for anyone else under capitalism.
German car tech is completly retarded. the 100k Audi A6 uses a 7 year old processor.
>The global market is delivering the final, devastating blow to Europe’s struggling industry. Exports to the USA, which is still the most important customer for German vehicles with a turnover of €28.5 billion, slumped by a catastrophic 18 per cent last year. The crash in the Far East is even more dramatic. China has slipped from second to sixth place as an export market. Exports to the People’s Republic have fallen to their lowest level since 2009.
The Euro car industry was warned a long time ago that they need to change to affordable electric or they’ll lose in the future.
**Current average monthly car note in the US is at an all time high of $800.**
I worked in the car industry for 15 years. Got out of it 7 years ago. No idea what this is gonna do to America. We are a car nation. Public transit is a joke, and often times it is propped up by taxes/government spending in small towns.
Funny reading this a minute after seeing this article talking about [BMW confirming 7 billion profits](https://www.reddit.com/r/BMW/comments/1s7qb1c/bmw_confirms_7_billion_profit_for_2025/) for 2025.
Are we going to talk about this topic being on a notebook check website?
wasn’t this predicted in a report in 2010? they were warned…
I live in EU and almost do not see any Chinese cars. My car ir WV, my colleague’s new car is electric Kia. I asked him why he didn’t buy cheaper Byd car, he laughed that he didn’t want to burn alive 🙂
Who would have thought that building expensive electric cars in a world that’s forever stuck in a cost of living crisis would be a problem. Nobody is going to pay 40k€ for a run of the mill sedan/SUV with a handful of useless gadgets, regardless of how aspirational and successful it makes them look.
People aren’t flocking to chinese brands because they like their politics. It’s because they’re cheap. The only ones competing with them are Renault/Dacia because they’re affordable.
Yeah… well… you seen the price tag of German cars vs. the quality offered?
it came at a bad time when Germany was forced to buy energy at 6x the price. switching to electric cars likewise were the final nails in the coffin
No worries, Merz is already working on Abwrackprämie 3.0! /s
‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ as they’ve forgotten to say in Germany.
When you price your products to only be affordable on a loan and then inflation hits and most people no longer want to have an extra mortgage payment each month for something that is not only a depreciating money pit in the long term, but they also wont even end up owning.
Fucking lol.
Did I mention diddling with regulations so that you have a competitive advantage but now that means you cant realistically lower prices because of all the regulatory bullshit you lobbied for?
Good luck shifting those 40K Golfs and Astras
Dont care. Bought a german car anyway because my family needs a safe car. And I will support them until not a single car can be sold anymore.
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Let’s add another subscription to use a fucking wiper, that will certainly solve the problem.
This doesn’t surprise me. I’m seeing more and more Chinese cars in Germany particularly BYD cars.
Yeah. Well. Over price things for years like they have and and you can expect to be undercut by someone.
Time for them to start competing again. Rather than relaxing on their podgey posteriors.
I bought a macan GTS in January, doing my part lol
Guess after the good ol’ days of cheap Russian energy is gone, the management is not sure how to make their paycheck fatter. More job cuts, zero investments, cutting down on research budget.
Who would have known?
Don’t worry I’m sure all of our pockets will be emptied out to save the car industry, it’s everybody’s favourite nationalistic vanity piece after all.
This article is not a little bit sensationalistic
/s
EU and UK political leadership is at fault here. The objective wasn’t EVs specifically it was to drive down pollution. We should have prioritised and incentivised small city EVs at high volume to target the dominant sources of car pollution. Instead we let the car manufacturers focus on investment recovery via high end expensive cars. The EU car makers think they are too big to fail and that govts will bail them out. We should let them die like the dinosaurs they are
Ah, the hourly Europe is dying post. Anybody seen the news about BYD being dethroned in China by…VW?
No worries, we just signed a deal to import more cheap labor, so this fallout will take another few years to manifest and it will be even worse 🙂
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Fighting with hands and teeth against developing a working electric car.
Now they complain they have nothing to sell.
If only someone could have foretold this.
The uncomfortable truth is that this isn’t just an automotive problem, it’s a broader cultural one. A mix of complacency and a certain German arrogance that assumes whatever worked in the past will automatically dominate the future.
German cara cost more than ever and their build quality is worse than ever, any wonder why their car industry is collapsing?
Kia began importing cars to the UK in 1991.
I think only recently have they become recognised as reliable and well-designed. It takes a long time to break that barrier, and Kia still isn’t the brand Mercedes is in the UK.
So their unwillingness to adapt to modern technologies finally bites them in the ass? Same old same old doesn’t cut it anymore?
maybe dont make everything plastic and screens?
Germany is that guy from your hometown who still wears the high school jacket and acts like his football accomplishments are relevant 20 years later. Germany just refuses to wake up.
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