Why have the German automakers shown so little interest in the American pickup market?

Toyota and Nissan build trucks overseas *and* sell US-made trucks.

What's your point?

They've been selling US made trucks for decades, they don't need to open up new factories for it. A company like VW will need to open up a new factory in the US to make Amaroks that avoid the chicken tax which would just end up costing them a lot for a slice of an incredibly competitive market

Why would they bother when they can just sell their trucks to the rest of the world and their luxury cars to America and make money with minimal risk both ways?
Please try to use your brain

The AMG might be for americans, but the G-Wagon model is pretty common in europe, mainly the diesel one

>Damage control

>They know that if they'll build g-wagon-level pickups they'll get big market share and big numbers quick enough.
The Lexus LX is a big luxury SUV but it still never surpasses the Escalade in sales nor does the Land Cruiser surpass the Surburban/Expedition. how do you expect germans to jeopardize truck sales if american body-on-frame SUV sales can't even be overtaken by what is essentially the best rival SUV maker on sale here?

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because american truck industry is protected by the egg tax

Oh so they've been making the exact same truck for decades?
If there was a market for German pickup trucks in the US they would build trucks in the US.
In the 90's they saw that the US was the largest market for SUVs so they built the ML and X5 in the US

The Amarok is only 8 years old and is VWs first real truck, they were starting from scratch.

If they had wanted to build in North America they could have, but they chose Argentina instead.

>he thinks car manufacturers open a new plant every time they make a new model

Wasn't the x5 built in an old ford plant?

>japs can't overtake US SUV's.
>germans thus are not able to overtake US Trucks.
The logic is flawless.
For a retard.
That's dead.