And the hits just keep on coming:
Volkswagen will pause production of one of its most important cars next week amidst growing concerns of a chip shortage that could cripple its outputs.
Chipmaker Nexperia has frozen supply in a fallout from the ongoing US-China trade dispute, causing major disruption for the German automotive giant.
The Dutch government – under pressure from the US Trump administration – seized control of Chinese-owned Nexperia last month, citing intellectual property concerns.
In response, China curbed exports of its finished products that are needed by European car makers.
Of course, VW lies like a Democrat politician:
Volkswagen said earlier this week that it had ‘long planned’ to pause production of the Golf hatchback – its longest-running model and one of its biggest-selling products – at the Wolfsburg factory from next week but initially denied any connection with chip supply chain concerns.
However, on Wednesday the car maker told workers at other plants it cannot rule out assembly line stoppages due to the ‘dynamic situation’.
Yesterday, VW issued an internal letter to staff saying production had not yet been affected by chip shortages, but it could not ‘rule out an impact on production in the short term’ over supply chain issues.
And I get mocked for hankering after the good old days…
Oh, you wanted color?
Q.E.D.
All these car makers and businesses want to blame Trump for their shittily run companies. Incompetent idiots run most of these companies and they are overpaid to fuck the business up.
CM,
If you could elongate that and put in some graphs and charts, some footnotes, that could earn you an MBA for your thesis.
no company would voluntarily stop making their most popular product. None. That’s just bad business.
China got opened up to Western trade to drive a wedge between the Soviet Communists and the Chinese Communists. Unfortunately the West invested far too much into Communist China. Now it is tough for Western companies to pull out.
We could return to Mechanical cars. Quit putting in fucking tablets to control everything and have knobs & levers. I realize that would fuck-up some Euro-green-EPA type horseshit, but hey, ya gotta break a few eggs.
Cars are fairly simple really (they are not simple to engineer) once they get the basics worked out like cylinder size or whatever. Its all the .gov & .biz wankery that makes them impossible.
Having lived through the Great Offshoring in the 2k’s I love seeing these companies take it in the ass, now that they went all in on outsourcing.
My favorite – If teddy had been driving a VW Mary Jo would probably still be alive.( that’s assuming that the clan didn’t decide to kill her for being preggers by one of the kennedy boyos).