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You have hit it on the head, that's why he speaks like that, his mum sat him in front of the box, full of The Muppets.
Not really one of the great orators of our time.
We seem to bounce back
Creative customs agents must have used these locations on their paperwork to circumvent US regulations in the past, probably those pesky Russians....Lol! What a dotard he is.
Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica
Australian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US presidentwww.theguardian.com
I slide underneath the wire on that landmind. So the 86k pickup is now back to 100k. The 86k includes the original tariff.
So the Quartermaster is not really selling in the US market at the moment so the price increase won’t cause sales to drop.
I wonder how Europe will respond to this madness?
Carefully considered , collective sanity springs to mind...
This is disappointig, Ineos needs the US sales for long term viability of Quartermaster. I cannot see the Aussie or South African ute/backie markets viably keeping QM going in the long term. Larger utes don't seem to be popular in the European market.
And according to my dealer today, sales of the wagon are doing really well, but the quartermaster isn't moving much at all. That surprised me.
Graham Cahill just bought a 79 series ute for the new series of offgrid. . He could have bought a far superior QM , but chose the well worn road....boring!
I don’t think the QM was ever going to sell much in the US, tariff or not. First of all, there’s the chicken tax. But there are plenty of guys who pay $85-100k for their trucks - but these are more like Dodge Ram or Ford or GMC 2500 HD’s - on Carli lifts. It’s not even really the same thing as a QM - the only thing like that would be the Jeep Rubicon Gladiator. It’s just very niche. It won’t be used as a work truck (US buyers want WAAAAY more payload, towing capacity and a larger bed), it won’t really draw the Ram Power Wagon 2500 crowd - and it will be a small subset (like really small) of the offroad/overland crowd.
To be fair - that is a huge liability in the truck buyer community. Not the overlanding community, per se, but the US truck purchaser really values “made in the USA,” and they are not Francophiles. That’s just the reality. I can’t really think of another category where Americans have that much emotional attachment - it took the place of the horse in the American west. It means everything.
