Sir Nicholas Stern likes to say that cars manufactured in the US cannot be imported into China because they would not meet that country’s strict emissions standards.
Tim Blair begs to differ. In fact, he has definitive proof that this is not true.
All three models will start as imports from GM’s North American Operations. They will be built at the company’s Grand River manufacturing facility in Lansing, Michigan, and at its facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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The top two US automakers announced plans to export thousands of vehicles to China as that country moves to open up its market to foreign competition.….
Ford Motor Company took another important step forward today in its commitment to grow in China by pledging to export more vehicles from the United States to China …
Now, I would be extremely hesitant to state that a Knight Bachelor and a Professor at my alma mater could be wrong, or even misrepresenting the truth, so shall we just settle for “mistaken”?