The European auto industry is a case study on how short-sighted trade policy goals, results in consequences.
Previously, German auto companies like Volkswagen entered into trade agreements with China and began manufacturing their vehicles with immediate financial success in the market. However, it did not take long for Chinese auto companies to reverse the engineering and begin to deliver the same quality vehicles at much lower prices.
The Chinese then stop purchasing the Volkswagen vehicles and purchase the cheaper version, while simultaneously begin exporting those same vehicles into the home market from where the technology originated.
Today, with a double-digit decline in production, Volkswagen announces they will cut almost half of their brands due to diminished sales.
BLOOMBERG – BERLIN — Volkswagen reported weak sales numbers on Friday, a day after the giant German automaker announced plans to slash the number of models by nearly half as sales plunged, particularly in China.
The Wolfsburg, Germany-based company said group sales fell 8.6 per cent in the second quarter to just under 2.1 million vehicles, with sales in China alone plummeted by more than one-third.
After a board meeting on Thursday, Volkswagen said its “fundamental realignment” over the last three years had reached its next phase, announcing plans to streamline the model lineup by up to half, without providing specifics.
CEO Oliver Blume laid out plans to make VW faster and more competitive through less complexity, focused technologies, better alignment across regional markets and reduction of overcapacities, among other things, citing an “increasingly demanding environment.”
Among its main brands, the core Volkswagen unit saw deliveries of slightly over 1 million vehicles in the second quarter, a drop of 14 per cent from a year earlier. Deliveries at Audi declined 8 per cent and those at Porsche fell 18 per cent. (read more)
Maybe Canada will take note, likely they will not.
The only way to avoid this issue is to protect the domestic market. As soon as you open your market to this claimed reciprocity (panda face), it will not take long until the mask drops, and you notice the dragon face behind it.
The media out promoting the first Chinese made EV’s arriving in Canada. Lotus is now owned by a Chinese company, starting price of these are $119,000 and go up to $160,000
Just what the average Canadian can afford.There is no doubt CTV got paid to this almost 2 minute native… pic.twitter.com/sdXvjc2eLS
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) July 9, 2026
IMHO this isn’t short sighted. They KNEW this would happen. Its called intentionally managed decline. They are purposely destroying their economies. While replacing their people. The. Plan is for China to rule the NWO.
The real reason behind the bankrupcy of all wstern Europe economies is their abusrd sanctions and war against Russia. German economy was naturally pwoered by cheap Russian energy but the infiltrated DC agents in Brussels, the unelected criminals ‘kommissars’ of the EUSSR are destroying on purpose all European economies to benefit the US.
They do so with their BS ‘green’ policies, their war against Russia and the refusal to buy cheap energy and buy instead super costly US one.
All western “leaders’ from Starmer, to Merz, Micron and all others are traitors to their nations and should be executed for high treason. The EU should be dismnatled and its unelected clown ‘president’ jailed for life.
Germany is going to the dog because little piece of shit Merz has been installed by his employer Blackrock to ruin the country, so that it can be bought on the cheap like they did with Ukraine.
The US think it’s smart to destroy Europe but they will soon realize that they are next.
Germany… Died by suicide.
RIP.
Yes it was self induced and started long before the Ukraine war with their green energy policies.
And their welfare bill was already taxing them to death, starting with all the Turks imported starting back in the late-60’s and going forward. “See how virtuous we are?” I remember as a young soldier, gazing about, wondering who thought this was a good idea, that it would come out well? Conversations revealed they were already in denial, injected with societal guilt whether they deserved it or not.
There is room in that casket for France and England.
Again……………..
Don’t forget that Germany had plentiful energy from nuclear power, until Merkel decommissioned most of the plants in favor of “green” energy.
Merkel = East Germany = USSR
The US has nothing to do with it “The US think it’s smart to destroy Europe”
The US is not destroying Europe. The US is saving itself by correcting all the one way deals that were sucking it dry. The choices Europe has made since 2016 are all its own.
If we’re going to discuss execution for high treason then the unelected “president” of the EU deserves no quarter.
Jail for life is undeserved quarter.
That plus a concerted effort by the NWO to make sure whites are killing whites. The white race is a threat to them for some reason.
YES! This is EXACTLY what the creeping socialists want. The decline of society, so they can BuildBackBetter in their own image.
They don’t produce enough energy to support a lit of manufacturing anyway.
Ever seen any Muslim Chinese.?
Yah, Uygher slaves
Organ donors.
Dead ones.
The only remedy to these government planned “let’s ruin our country” programs is to use our constitutional approved Article 5(?-help me out here) rights and actively end the tyranny foreshadowed by our founding fathers…
We are NOT voting ourselves out of this mess…..🇺🇸🇺🇸
Even funnier, I watch a YouTube video (I believe on the Out of Spec channel) where he (an American) and a German car reviewer were in China reviewing a VW that is only available in China. They both said this is the car they want and it clearly can’t be VW because it’s nice 😂😂.
lol, losers!!! Importing Northern Africa into your country and exporting your manufacturing.
All by design with the EU globalists dictates.
We have to protect our consumer market. Every country wants to sell here. We either build ourself or insure other countries build here if they want to sell.
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Jihadist decapitates people; Communist China decapitates industries.
Lucky Europe. They get both.
I have had my fill of good news today so I will take some time off.
See y’all later.
Dear Volkswagen-
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It is like the Germans were being advised by Rand Paul.
Germany is always wrong.
It’s a race to stupidity.
Colin Chapman would be enraged.
Dieselgate reminder.
Volkswagen installed illegal software, known as “defeat devices,” in millions of diesel vehicles to cheat emissions tests.
The code detected when a car was undergoing laboratory testing by monitoring parameters such as steering wheel position, speed, and duration, then activated full emissions controls to meet regulatory standards.
During normal on-road driving, the software deactivated these controls, causing the vehicles to emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) up to 40 times the legal limit allowed in the United States.
This deception, which began around 2005, affected approximately 11 million vehicles worldwide, including models from VW, Audi, and Porsche.
The emissions standards were excessive and totally unreasonable that’s why no diesel passenger cars are imported into the United States.
Those cars were great.
Exactly. Regulation exceeded the limits of the technology that could be delivered for the price the market would pay.
Meanwhile, OTR diesel trucks were fitted with SCR systems
Have to wonder at what point will Germany or the rest of the Eu have nothing left to export. How will Germany pay for all those lazy unemployable MOOSLEMS?
Government positions.
German leaders cheered when The Nordstream Pipelines which provided German industry with unlimited and virtually free natural gas were blown-up.
That’s like the passengers on the Titanic cheering when the lifeboats sank!
Has modern day communist China invented ANYTHING? It’s a serious question. Pharma, crop hybrids, autos, defense and weaponry, “luxury” goods, computer chips and tech, crappy “energy-star appliances, the list goes on. Easy to fine-tune, when the bulk of the R&D has been shouldered by others.
And remember their “female” Olympic athletes, in the days before drug and DNA testing?
Panda is gobbling up the West because it is not just allowed, but encouraged, to do so.
Just imagine if we still had Autopen at the helm, or low IQ Harris. Yikes!
Still think it is funny concerning some particular tech.
Green cultists got all excited about new battery technology that was being commercialized by China. Vanadium flow batteries. Game changing or something reportedly, in reality not so much.
Apparently missed in the media buzz was that the R&D was funded in the United States by major universities and the Department of Energy for over a decade and that all the specs and research was simply handed over to China.
Never stop your enemy from doing really stupid things! Maybe that’s why Sen Mitch McConnell is such a revered elder statesman in China.
Pretty sure they revere Henry Kissinger more, which is telling.
Allis-Chalmers crawlers and graders made in my backyard thrived until about 1975 and the Kamatsu machines were very similar to the AC brand. We know for fact Chinese and Far East cultures have no regard for copyright or patent protection laws and flaunt the cheating. Knowing this and suffering from it for decades where they can sell millions of cars and appliances into the US, but they refuse to buy any of ours at all, considering them to be inferior. THIS IS NOT A MANUFACTURING WAR, BUT A CULTURE WAR WHERE ONE CULTURE IS COMPLETELY OBEDIENT TO THEIR GOVERNMENT, YET WE HAVE THE “freedom” TO CHOOSE AND WE CAN NEVER WIN AGAINST THEIR CHEAPER PRICE!
Obviously the answer is to level the field by imposing import tariffs. Let the globalist importers squeal.
Don’t forget that energy costs quadrupled when Germany stopped buying cheap Russian natural gas.
They de-nuclearlized
The irony.. Hitler created the VW with Ferdinand Porsche as a “people’s car”. Now the People’s Republic of China owns VW.
Not to worry. Now they’ll have the spare capacity to build all those subs for Canada that Carnage definitely has the money for. 😉
“Volkswagen Will Eliminate Almost Half of Production Brands“And half the workforce that built them.
Toyota will be hiring in Texas soon. And another new plant in Tennessee. Will there be any H1-B visas available to skilled white German auto workers? They would probably enjoy life in the deep south and breed as well as the Muslims do.
On certain days, we live accross the river from the Canadians. Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
1957. The Enemy Below.
“We build ’em good in Germany, eh, Heine?“
2026. ……….
Combine intellectual property theft by the Chinese, with destruction of affordable energy in Germany / Europe, and this is the result. When GM decided Buick would be a Chinese brand, I shook my head in dismay: but at least the US hasn’t totally surrendered to “green” energy.
China has been making knockoffs of every single car no matter the manufacturer.
They have been preparing for this day and have been making 50% of all Buicks for some time now.
They can make it, nobody is forced to buy it.
We all know if Kamala was elected to President in 2024, … American’s would be getting screwed big time, … Biden, and Mitch, and others are in the pocket of China.
Thank GOD President Trump is our MAGA president. I’m in favor of President Trump having another 4 year term, to continue the good job he is doing.
Give me a … Amen… if you support Trump for 4 more years. Provided he gets yearly check ups and is sharp as a tack. (you know what I mean, … if Trump starts falling down a lot, and looks dead like mitch or biden … Yeah … that would be the time to step down.)
Covfefe
LOL! …. yeah … Trump can make spelling and grammer mistakes, and he should stay President. :). I was just saying stumbling from the stop step of plane to the ground, … would be the type of error, that we would have to get concerned about. Unless the president immediatly got up, brushed the pants and runs to car to go next event. (Sorry, I’m in a funny mood, … so I did come into thread … to see what is up. ).
They are either incredible stupid, or in on the heist of their economies by China.
Point Trump.
Score: 11ty billion to Zero.
VW is very bloated much like GovMo used to be. They have way too many brands under their group umbrella.
From Wiki:
The Volkswagen Group sells passenger cars under the Audi, Bentley, Cupra, Jetta, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT, Škoda and Volkswagen brands, motorcycles under the Ducati name, light commercial vehicles under the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand, and heavy commercial vehicles via the marques of the listed subsidiary Traton (International Motors, MAN, Scania and Volkswagen Truck & Bus).
True. General Motors had the same problem before its bankruptcy
Geee … wonder how much money VW blew on the World Cup … they are sponsors for several teams and the World Cup organization in general.
Yep. The Chinese are f*cking THIEVES
Further to your CTV clip on “X”.
CTV which is Bell Media receives $40 million from the FEDS. CBC receives $$1.2 billion from the FEDS.
This clip taken from Canadian Media Summit January 29, 2026 says it all about Canadian media. (13 seconds)
Yep. 💯% intentional. Same with the mass migration/ illegal invasion policy. Some one, some group, at some time ( leading contenders are the Bohemian Grove lot) planned this whole thing long ago. This century was promised to the dragon, by the people that rule the West. The entire West is being hallowed out. Too many conspiracy theories are turning to fact for this all to be happenstance. One guy came along, twice now, and delayed it. Like Mitch’s wife and where has has been in recent days. Come on. They don’t even care anymore, not trying to hide anything, distract yes. I’ll leave with the same one question I have been asking on this site since Sundance actually 2 names here, one word. Why?
Rest assured … VW Inc. is earning some sort of royalty for the China Inc. build cars, while the EU and German Governments have no problem collecting taxes on sales of the China Inc. products.
That is how off-set JV’s are set up when a Business sets up operation in a froeign land. the fun part is that VW had to AGREE to the China Inc. JV Company(s) that VW helped form were allowed to EXPORT back to Germany and EU. Typically sell-back clauses are highly limited with built in quotas vs time built into the agreements.
I was part of writing off-set agreements.
China Inc. is not stupid nor criminal … the export back to the EU was a known clause that VW, the EU and German Government fully knew about … and are collecting royalties-taxes upon. It is the EU-German Employees of VW who are being screwed.
China Inc. may be evil but they are not stupid. They will drive very hard bargains and they will honor them. Can’t blame them for the GREED of the VW Shareholders and German Government … nor the stupidity of the German Consumers and voters kept in the dark until the pink slips appear and welfare $$$ dry up.