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Chinese cars are pouring into Mexico — and the U.S. is worried - Autoblog (www.autoblog.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Well shit where can I get one?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (7 children)

BRB, hiring a coyote to smuggle a cool Chinese EV over the border to avoid tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Couldn't you just buy it in Mexico and drive it over?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think you just discovered the plot for The Fast and the Furious 10.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I can't believe that shit is still going. I never watched a single one of them.

But I looked it up and it seems like, at least some, Chinese hybrid SUVs in Mexico converting from current MXN to USD rate go for around $35-40k at their highest, premium tier. Some hybrid SUVs in the US at their bottom tier are currently $50k+. That's such a wild fucking difference. Thinking about it, you'd probably need an address in Mexico to register it and whatever but I don't see why or how they'd stop you at the border on the drive back home into the US. Not sure how maintenance or registration would go after that though, so maybe it's not sustainable unless you have a consistent Mexican address. I hope someone out there gets around the system and drives in their affordable, premium Chinese car in the US. Death to tariffs.

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