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by cucumber3732842 140 days ago
>Does anyone outside America wants to buy an American car?

"Nobody buys American" is a circle jerk meme in white collar parts of the internet where everyone has a $50k Japanese car/SUV/pickup in their driveway they need to feel validated about.

Ford and GM sell small cars, crossovers and midsize trucks hand over fist in "wet equatorial places", roughly speaking, though in GM's case typically not branded as GM/Chevy.

The Daimler Benz and FCA thing was actually really good for Chrysler/Jeep getting their products out there[1]. Due to the inherent multi nationality of Stellantis, those platforms are basically global at this point anyway even if they're not badged as Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler overseas or badged as French/Italian in the US.

That said, the "first world" markets have been so insular for so long due to protectionism that they are in serious danger.

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GM mostly rebadged Subaru, Isuzu, Daewoo (Korean) models as Chevies in India before leaving. Are they doing better in other "wet equatorial places"?
They're doing fine in south america and the parts of Asia that used to take orders from the French. GM has more sales in the ME than Ford does so that kinda offsets the fact that Ford is doing better in Asia for the most part.