Fake "Vesti of the Week": US Auto Industry in such a deplorable state that high tariffs are needed to save it

Detroit, the historical capital of the American automotive industry, really survived the best times when a number of car factories closed. In 2013, the city authorities even officially announced the bankruptcy of the city: he could not pay debts, which by that time were $ 20 billion.

But after bankruptcy, the restoration of Detroit began, which is now little like the “city of ruins”, as the VGTRK correspondent calls it. And in his worst times, he did not become a “ghost city”: the General Motors headquarters work in Detroit, in his suburbs of Dirborne -Ford, in another suburbs of Obern Hills -Chrysler (Stellantis North America). At the plants located in the city, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Dodge Durango, Cadillac Escalade, GMC Hummer, GMC Sierra, as well as numerous automobile nodes and components are assembled.

In addition, large car factories are located in other American cities, many of them belong to foreign companies; So, the Volkswagen plant is located in Chattanuga (Tennessee), the Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuskaluz (Alabama), the BMW plant in Spartanburg (South Carolina), Toyota plants (Kentukki), Princeton (Indiana), San Antonio (Texas), Blo-Springs (Mississippi), Huntsville (Alabama). In terms of the number of cars produced in the year, the United States is second only to China.

But the news correspondents, to show the danger threatening the American auto industry, needed to show the Packard plant. The cars of this brand last time left the assembly line in 1958, later the plant was used for various production and warehouses, in 2022 it began to be demolished. After completing the production of Packard, dozens of new, more modern automobile plants opened in the United States.

As for the Canadian automobile industry mentioned in the plot, then, according to the Canadian Automobile Museum, for example, in 1967, that is, during the heyday of the industry in the United States, the country imported 243,206 cars from Canada. According to the 1965 automobile pact, cars and their components could be exported and imported between Canada and the USA duty -free. In Oshav (Ontario), since the 1950s, a large General Motors plant has been operating, which has now producing the Chevrolet Silverado model.