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.
There is room in that casket for France and England.
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”
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.?
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.
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.
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.
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.