Tesla gets the most explosive car prize, VW is behind by at least a decade in this category
Straight_Ad2258 on
unironically, i think some of VW’s factories could and should permanently switch to defense manufacturing
the switch to electric cars will lead to a long term job loss in the German car industry of 70% of all jobs, and multiple factories for small car parts will have to close
electric engines especially have only 20 moving parts compared to 1200 parts in ICE vehicles
so there is an oportunity to make the transition away from gasoline cars without massive deindustrialization
also, whatever happens in US in the future, German defense industry production will permanently become larger, because it will have to replace not only old Soviet equipment in Eastern Europe,, but also increasingly American equipment in Europe and even around the world
Germany and the rest of Europe could easily steal bit by bit the global defense market from US and Russia
the more relations with US breakdown, the better for its defense industry, as non-aligned countries like Algeria, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria and others would prefer European defense products over Russian and American ones
Rheinmetall and Hanwha could esentially own the global tank market in the years to come
The US threatening Canada and getting in bed with Russia. The Europeans asking the French to provide a nuclear umbrella and asking the Huns “can you fucking rearm already”, Germany asking Volkswagen to you know, do what they did best first and little Poland basically having the strongest military in Europe at the moment (sans nukes).
We’re definately living in a computer simulation.
Character_Team_2651 on
Remake the Kubelwagen!
XscytheD on
Insert *”I’ve seen this one before”* meme
pegzounet69 on
Kübelwagen GTI
NewInvestment2471 on
Ahahahaa remember the last time they built weapons for Germany ? Ahahahahahahah
Vannnnah on
this is the funniest “back to the roots” arc of this season. Not only would it keep jobs and help rearm the country, it was triggered by Trump’s tariffs which he imposed to harm and sabotage the EU efforts.
svmk1987 on
Please, no touchscreens in the tanks.
HMSS-Overkill on
Like the good ol’ days! Wait…
matobi91 on
So long as the tanks don’t have the stupid haptic buttons of the ID line
white26golf on
I’ll bet they are. They do have experience.
GLAcomp14 on
OH SHIT, HERE WE GO AGAIN.
Whats next, Hugo Boss will make their uniforms?!
FR now, we need Germany to become strong so we can properly flip off the russian and american morons
lzap on
The only question is: are these military vehicles gonna be also equipped with 75kW 1.0L TSI engines with particle filters like we all have to buy these days?
Senior_Green_3630 on
The Panzer Beatle?
Dreadedvegas on
Have VW build a level 2 vehicle en masse.
Something with comparable armor to an M113 akin to a Senator. If they could make a tracked vehicle sure thats better but with their line you could in theory adjust it quicker to something like that.
They already make stuff through their MAN subsidiary. Stuff like the Tpz Fuchs, AMPV etc. just scale the production to a normal VW factory
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And it has come full circle again….sort of.
Tesla gets the most explosive car prize, VW is behind by at least a decade in this category
unironically, i think some of VW’s factories could and should permanently switch to defense manufacturing
the switch to electric cars will lead to a long term job loss in the German car industry of 70% of all jobs, and multiple factories for small car parts will have to close
electric engines especially have only 20 moving parts compared to 1200 parts in ICE vehicles
so there is an oportunity to make the transition away from gasoline cars without massive deindustrialization
also, whatever happens in US in the future, German defense industry production will permanently become larger, because it will have to replace not only old Soviet equipment in Eastern Europe,, but also increasingly American equipment in Europe and even around the world
Germany and the rest of Europe could easily steal bit by bit the global defense market from US and Russia
the more relations with US breakdown, the better for its defense industry, as non-aligned countries like Algeria, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria and others would prefer European defense products over Russian and American ones
Rheinmetall and Hanwha could esentially own the global tank market in the years to come
Ok so whats next…
Preparing for war economy?
A 100 years ago: 🙋🏻♂️
Today: 🙏🏻
They have experience:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Kübelwagen
Since VW is already part owner of a military heavy utility vehicles collab through one of their brands, I don’t think this is out of line, tbh.
Oh, so that’s why I was issued a pickelhaube and a wienerdog this morning
I see they are returning to origins
ah
Don’t send Putin an Austrian to put in charge while he is on holiday or we have a world war on our hands. My people love to start World Wars.
Ok if BMW does it that we really should worry 😅
Make [Kübelwagen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Kubelwagen) great again!
The US threatening Canada and getting in bed with Russia. The Europeans asking the French to provide a nuclear umbrella and asking the Huns “can you fucking rearm already”, Germany asking Volkswagen to you know, do what they did best first and little Poland basically having the strongest military in Europe at the moment (sans nukes).
We’re definately living in a computer simulation.
Remake the Kubelwagen!
Insert *”I’ve seen this one before”* meme
Kübelwagen GTI
Ahahahaa remember the last time they built weapons for Germany ? Ahahahahahahah
this is the funniest “back to the roots” arc of this season. Not only would it keep jobs and help rearm the country, it was triggered by Trump’s tariffs which he imposed to harm and sabotage the EU efforts.
Please, no touchscreens in the tanks.
Like the good ol’ days! Wait…
So long as the tanks don’t have the stupid haptic buttons of the ID line
I’ll bet they are. They do have experience.
OH SHIT, HERE WE GO AGAIN.
Whats next, Hugo Boss will make their uniforms?!
FR now, we need Germany to become strong so we can properly flip off the russian and american morons
The only question is: are these military vehicles gonna be also equipped with 75kW 1.0L TSI engines with particle filters like we all have to buy these days?
The Panzer Beatle?
Have VW build a level 2 vehicle en masse.
Something with comparable armor to an M113 akin to a Senator. If they could make a tracked vehicle sure thats better but with their line you could in theory adjust it quicker to something like that.
They already make stuff through their MAN subsidiary. Stuff like the Tpz Fuchs, AMPV etc. just scale the production to a normal VW factory
Bringing back the old crew I see .
Norm MacDonald joke in there somewhere.
Good full steam ahead 👍
Kubelwagon protect mobility vehicle
‘Das Panzer’
Kübelwagen is back on the menu
Hahahahahahaha
History repeats itself indeed!