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Originally Posted by widebody911

Either build trucks, or have a bunch of small cars sitting on the lot while customers go elsewhere.

Customers wanted small cars, just not the Scheiße that Detroit was barfing onto the lots. Honda, Toyota, Datsun, et al were eating their lunch in this segment. Truck sales were protected by tariffs, or they would have suffered as well.

You do realize it's 2019, not 1979, right? The shift to trucks and SUVs is being followed by everyone, including the import automakers. Ford in particular was actually building some damn good cars, I would quickly grab a Fusion over a Camry in the rental car aisle. At the moment customers simply don't want cars, and if you don't build what your customers want you won't be in business for very long.

Originally Posted by Fly Mach .86

It looks like in the future, the only two left standing will be Walmart and Amazon. Amazon by the way is buying their own airplanes and I expect that soon (if not already) they will have their own airline certificate.

They already have Prime Air, I saw one of their planes at SEA last month. They also have their own over the road trucks and local delivery drivers in cities where they offer same day delivery.