How Will Trump 25-Percent Tariffs Impact GM Vehicle Pricing?

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   Gets paper cut: “Mary Barra is up to her old tricks again!!!!”
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      Takes shower and does the Zest towel dry: Mary can do no wrong.
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   3 things,

   1; these the same analysts who missed 2008? Said EV’s are more profitable?

   2; I4 turbo family made in Mexico? Could we see a rise of Tonawanda builds, IE, V8’s 6’s??

   3, be nice to have a nice cheap car made in Missouri right now, dare I say one with a name like Malibu??? As kia drivers will now have to look elsewhere to not buy a 40K Toyota.
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   For 2025 GM can forget that 15 billion in profits like they pulled in 2024.

   The prices should not go up at first as GM has a lot of vehicles sitting on the lots. Buick is at 138 days; so Envista should be safe for a while.
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      And they can forget artificially propping up their stock price with stock buybacks. How’s that working for them now?
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      But you know either Corporate will slap the increase on them or, more likely, the usual unscrupulous Stealer’s will do so. Buyers need to examine the driver’s side door-frame stickers on the vehicle to see when it was made. If there is the chicanery of trying to slap price hikes on it and it was made prior to the implementation of the tariffs….walk away !
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   Additionally, this is assuming that Trump will make these tariffs permanent. I would guess that many countries will bend the knee or at least Trump will delay some.
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   These two parties aren’t at war with each other. They are at war with the American working class. Neither party cared to lower prices for Americans. Until the people start to realize that neither party gives a rats a** for the middle class and start looking at third party options, we will continue to be the targets of these politicians colluding with each other and putting on a show like they actually care. Its them against the American working class.
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      You forget that Canada, Mexico , and the U.S. are all American nations. So Trump is punishing all Americans.
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         You’re rather obtuse don’t you think? Of course we’re Americans, not “United Statesians”. It is after all the United States of America so it just makes sense. We all know who Canadians and Mexicans are too, NOT Americans.
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            That just proves your dumbass country doesn’t even have a name, just a description.
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               This comment proves you don’t even like us, and really are just angry cause we’re cutting off your gravy train.

               Here’s a novel idea, WORK FOR YOUR LIVING! It attitudes like this that are the reason Trump won the popular vote with everyone knowing tarrifs were coming. WE ARE TIRED OF BEING LEACHED ON. And all the bellyaching shows us that your not our friends. You don’t want to be our friends if it doesn’t involve you getting rich off us. Good bye sir, niece life, I’ll find me someone why treats me as an equal. Maybe you deserve a 200% tarrifs till you show some virtues like gratitude for the low defense spending that’s propped up most lavish lifestyles in Europe and Canada.
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      Once again you prove your total lack of understanding what the Tariffs are all about and how Trump’s long-range plans and tactics will create some short-term sufferings but improve things for the entire U.S. in the long run.
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   Our car insurance is going to go up as many replacement parts and whole vehicles will cost much more with trump’s tariffs.
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   End result….their will be more Jobs for USA auto workers. Over the past 15 years or so we have been loosing manufacturing jobs in this country, which are typically good paying jobs. Why is this so hard for people to see? I am an unaffiliated voter. I really want every administration to do well in office. I have voted for both parties. This just makes sense to me. It seems like some people just want this administration to fail even if they are doing right by the American people. It’s like they are scared of this administration succeeding.
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      Agree, but I have to say that the job losses in US manufacturing have gone far beyond 15 years.
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         Michael Moore in Roger and Me discussed the decline of Greaseball Mecca. My Dad lost his manufacturing job during the Reagan Administration.
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         most of job losses are caused by robots taking your job. spent 37 years in GM and watched robots take one job after another . From welders to paint shops and even the hardware lines and your blaming other countries
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      It will take years and years to “rebuild” manufacturing plants. Unemployment was at 3.9 percent when Biden left office. That’s considered full employment. The real unemployment is among the advanced degreed demographic.
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         Listen, I’ve been in the business with GM for 42 years. They do NOT have to build new plants to be able to take on new production. GM has plants that they shuttered for many years. Plants are not even working at full capacity and can take on new work. GM just made a decision to take work from Canada to Spring Hill, Tn Powertrain. So let’s stop the complaining and cheer on American Manufacturing!
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         Oh Matt, wake up and understand how incredibly erroneous those “unemployment” numbers are that both sides of the Political aisle use to their respective advantage. Unemployment statistics ONLY INCLUDE those currently receiving unemployment checks and NOT those whose unemployment benefits have expired, even though they may still remain unemployed. See how they are playing you ?
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      Not sure what news you are reading but US Manufacturing increased under the previous administration. Anyone who thinks $3 per hour or less in wages in these 3rd world countries is coming back to American is just plain silly. Our standard of living is so different. The bottom line is corporate greed!
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         Oh please ! that worn-out, disproven nonsense again about anything “improving” under the previous, horrific Administration ? You suckers are always trying to get away with comparing to the down, down COVID years to prop-up numbers and lie some more.
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      There had better be more jobs for USA auto workers because it’s a fact that producing these idiotic EV’s will eliminate at least one-half of auto workers jobs.
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         Don’t worry for 2 reasons

         1, EV’s actually are significantly more complicated and have 2-3X more parts than ICE competitors, just the hope was to have those 800 individual cell batteries made in China, but tarrifs will take that away

         2, EV’s are collapsing globally for the short term as all economies are readjusting to the overspending be literally every single government on the planet. You got 2 decades before reinvestment into this kind of garbage from anyone.
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      USA autoworkers will be lucky to maintain the positions they now hold. When manufacturers have to pay 10 times the labor rate of Mexico in the USA you can bet they will do their best to automate even more positions. In the mean time buyers will pay even more for cars and parts due to tariffs, that supposedly will bring jobs back to the USA.
      All the tariffs will do is further lower the standard of living for the 30% of citizens in the lowest wage scale, 40% will fight to maintain, and the upper 30% will of course prosper. That is unless went enter a tariff caused depression.
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   GM and Barra should be ashamed of these numbers. So much for the “all American” car company.
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   there’s gonna be some pain. but remember no pain no gain.
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      Gain for who exactly?
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    When Ferris Beuller cut class, the teacher discusses tariffs. I don’t recall him saying anything good about them. He did say Depression. We should listen to our teachers.
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       Yes, so tell everyone to dump their earrings on us or they will experience a depression.
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    The Dump tariffs are the stupidest thing that he can do. When are the MAGAts going to realize that a tariff is nothing more than a tax on them, doesn’t matter if it’s on vehicles or avocadoes, we are going to pay more. Someday people are going to realize Dump is going to ruin this country. If tRump is gone before I wake, I pray to God the news ain’t fake!!
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       I don’t think your IQ is high enough to own any GM product…
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       You have no right to criticize the Greatest Leader of All time. He has done more in 3 months than any President. If you don’t shut your pie hole and stand by OUR LEADER, I am reporting you to Kristi Noem. You can be one of those shaven head guys in that prison while she stands there with her 60k Rolex.
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          🤮🤮🤮
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       You Donkey’s have already DESTROYED this country….
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    America’s automobile industry from engines, transmissions to the total assembled product will be back to normal in three years, but best of all the hard working auto workers BACK TO WORK. Those who kept me and every other American who depended on their willingness to get up every morning and go pull their shifts to stay on wheels.
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    You think tariffs are expensive, wait until everything is manufactured in the US under the UAW.
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       Either restrict UAW to slow own inflation, (all around pay raises are essentially another factor driving inflation so it isn’t even a raise), or push tariffs to drive inflation as fast as UAW and other union groups drive it while forcing production to stay here. Make it stick that as your pay goes up your cost of living goes up.
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    GM CAN’T EVEN BUILD MY CORVETTE AFTER 5 MONTHS AND I ORDERED IT BEFORE THE ELECTION—AND THEY’RE WORRIED ABOUT TARIFFS??
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    I’m drowning in liberal tears here. Besides I thought all of you alphabets drive Tesla.
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       Idiot Trump bought a Tesla
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    What completely childish thread of comments.
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    Are there signs of intelligence here ? Anyone here ever contributed anything meaningful ? You have all gone soft, and in an emergency could not be counted on.
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    Imagine all the paperwork and associated cost to track all this…that ain’t going to be absorbed by car manufacturers. Remember when Trump announced that the $800 threshold on packages shipped into the U.S. would be removed, i.e. everything tariffed? That was quickly reversed when he was informed that shipping companies and the USPS do not have the resources to track every parcel to that degree. One-dimensional thinking brings one-dimensional results.
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    It would be nice if GMA would do some actual reporting. Taking the MSRP and multiplying by 25% grossly overstates the effects of the tariffs. Assembly, dealer markups, etc are not tariffed.
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    I’m glad we bought our Trax LS last year.
    $23K out the door with a lifetime powertrain warranty.
    Doesn’t sound like vehicles will be that cheap ever again.
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    I say simply increase the prices of those big beautiful trucks and large SUVs everyone must have to make up for any net cost increases.
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    Arnt just about every every part that goes into a Tahoe, Yukon, Suburban or Silverado1500’s that are manufactured in US (including final engine and transmission assemblies) already covered by the USMCA trade agreement and therefore for the next few months exempt from the proposed tariffs? ….. until they can determine how to do the breakdown of parts that go back and forth several times before assembly and parts currently listed as USCA?
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    The UAW is now backing Trump!
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    from canada to world its payback time how many countries has US helped over the last 100 years disasters wars etc. how many have repaid for the help? we are all bellyaching over spending little more money!!! get another job buy a used car instead of new millions available to bad were all upset THATS LIFE ! IM 80 YEARS OLD still work every day heavy industrial work to bad everyone wants free ride! THIS IS LIFE 2025!
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    I don’t care if the cost goes up $10k because of tariffs, all vehicles are obscenely over priced to begin with. The last new truck I purchased was in ’94 chevy 2500, for comparison I paid $25k. Fast forward 20 years I paid $26 and change for a 2010 silverado 1500 Ltz ext cab w/43k miles, sometimes wish it had 4 full size doors. My point being is there are only a select few who can buy a truck @ $60- $80k I’m not one of them being a retired Machinist I make in a year what one of these new trucks cost. I’ll keep my 2010 thank you very much🙏 Swing for the fences President Trump 🇺🇸🦅🗽
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    Good article today’s Detroit Free press shows GM imports almost half their vehicles they sell in this country. Also shows that most of their plants are underutilized with Lansing Grand River at about 12% utilization .so there’s plenty of room in GM’s plants to bring back production
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    GM and Barra- and Ford and Farley for that matter- have no one to blame but themselves for this mess. They knew this action would be coming. They should have got on the horn with Trump about a month ago and said we’re going to repatriate 1 million units of production back to the United States in exchange for some tax breaks and some relief on the regulations. Instead they said on their hands to the last minute literally and now they’re crying the blues additionally. GM has been gaslighting American public by importing more and more and more vehicles from low-wage countries while shuttering shifts and plants in this country thinking that the public would not recognize it.
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    The ridiculous making the ridiculous more ridiculous.
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    I’m ready to order a 2026 Eray. I won’t if Trump’s tariff applies, as it adds no value, and will make the car harder to sell later – especially if he comes up with some reason to drop the tariff. I’m not about to pay more so Trump can enrich himself with more tax cuts.
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    not bad for Mary and her chinese company.
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