In some cases, yes.   The chicken tax absolutely allowed Ford, GM and Dodge to charge more for their trucks.  Until Toyota and Nissan built plants in the U.S.   These aren’t supposed to be permanent tariffs.  If China drops their tariffs and other trade restrictions then we drop ours.  If China restricts our exports and charges big tariffs why should we allow them to import freely?  Make more stuff here like the Japanese did with trucks.

Wait, is that a Ute version of a Scion XB?

You’d need to combine Highlander and Grand Highlander sales. That puts the combined at 57,739 units versus 57,615 for Explorer.    The grand and regular Highlander have essentially the same cost. But one has significantly more room.regular XLE AWD is $47k, Grand XLE is $47.2k. Supposedly Toyota is planning to kill off the regular Highlander at the end of the cycle. 

I think what Biker16 is gettin' at is that protectionist policies at home further rig the game, reducing choice and increasing prices for American consumers. Long term, those protectionist policies are bad news for American automakers too.   Ford's head honcho says he ain't depending on the U.S. government:   U.S. tariffs of 100% on Chinese EVs keep BYD’s Seagull out of showrooms for now. But Jim Farley knows policy winds shift. Axios quotes him saying Ford must match costs, not count on customs. If Chinese brands assemble cars in Mexico or source components through third countries, the price war lands on our doorstep anyway.   For Jim Farley, this is personal and professional. He staked his tenure on making Ford a credible EV player.  If he can compress development cycles to Chinese speeds and squeeze Detroit’s cost base, he secures Ford’s next century. If not, the BYD teardown becomes the moment we all should have seen coming.   Jim Farley isn’t just sounding alarms, he’s rewriting the whole company. Now the question is how fast Ford can run.

That lucky bas-tid!!

You’re assuming that a U.S. built EV can compete with BYD pricing and still turn a profit.  Even though the Chinese gov’t clearly subsidizes them.  You’re also ignoring the huge inequity in balance of trade with China.   A free market can’t compete with foreign governments that rig the game.

Order bank should have opened today, August 13. Job #1 is in November.

I also remember in the 80's Chrysler had 3 different Lebarons and 2 New Yorkers all at the same time.

Onshoring is a choice; every consumer product doesn't have to be built in the US. I was referring to the impact of preventing the sale of Chinese-made EVs in the US, which will reduce competitive pressure on prices. This is what has happened under the Chicken Tax, to trucks, I'd expect the same thing to happen with protectionist policies for EVs.

This could happen.  If you believe what you read, battery prices are slowly coming down, so you'd expect vehicle prices to come down too.  And, like the Motel T assembly line, Ford will probably find additional efficiencies with this new three-stage assembly which could eventually translate to reduced pricing.