Quote Originally Posted by Innuendo View Post
You are right about tariffs etc but in the end it all comes back to politics and how "they" want it to work!
Exactly!
I just can't imagine the risk some of these companies take when designing so many years ahead though. They don't know what the global market is going to be like in 5-10 years from now, yet they must design cars for the future not kowing if it is going to be a boom or bust economy... and it is global now, not local like it was in the 70's.

1974... OPEC oil embargo turned our car industry on its tail because petrol went from 10 cents p/l to 20-30 over night! Can you imagine petrol doubling/tripling in a matter of a few weeks today?

Quote Originally Posted by Innuendo View Post
Now keep talking war, we have uranium to sell.
I got out of the defence industry because things were slowing down quickly. European allies and then the US announced withdrawal of troops and immediately the Govt. here shutdown multi million dollar projects. Only last week I heard from old colleagues a 5bl contact got canned, they are going out of work because we aren't blowing shit up! (not that I want that).