25% Tariffs Begin April 2nd

[FSUZ33]

No experience with the company whatsoever, but Wavetrac diffs are made here. I've head people in the Z33 and Z34 community mention them. Quick search shows parts for GT-R, Z33, Z34 and Infiniti Q50 Q60 R190 WR30DETT. Not sure if this one fits the RZ34.

 

[pectab]

Final Assembly just means the port in which is entered the country

For instance my 2024 said Brunswick GA and my 2023 said los Angeles

Correct. This was done to circumvent tariffs since the Z is now able to claim final assembly in America. Brilliant move on Nissan’s part but sadly that loophole is no longer going to be permissible. I’m sure all of the 25’s are currently stateside that are coming this year but I would be willing to wager if there is a 26 that comes to America it will no longer say final assembly was in the U.S.

Tariffs are based on the VIN, starting with J means Japan. Starting 1, 4, 5 means assembled in US, 2 Canada and 3 Mexico.

 

[FSUZ33]

Not a NASCAR fan, but remember rumblings when Toyota brought the Camry in. Early on it was Monte Carlo vs Charger vs Fusion vs Camry. And the only one produced in the US was the Camry. Those 3 "American" cars were manufactured in Canada and Mexico. Although I've only driven Z's since 2003, I don't dislike American cars in general, but this did make me chuckle.

 

[Loco38SUP]

Trump could run for a 3rd term, win, serve the four additional years and still be out of office before someone could spin up a brand new auto manufacturing plant in US. Nissan's lead time on a new model vehicle is ~4 years to build it at a plant that already exists. The idea that you can just flip the 25% tariff switch and immediately start producing vehicles in the US is naive. If we really want to bring manufacturing back to the US, an actual long term plan is necessary, with a clearly defined ramp up to penalties and tariffs. Anything else is short sighted political grandstanding.

The real joke is that it's all a moot point anyways. In 10 years 90% of automotive manufacturing jobs in the US will be performed by physical AI using robots from... you guessed it, China.

100% this, the big car manufacturers will plan to weather this 4 year storm. They will save more money by shutting us off vs building a new plant.

-RJM

 

[RobotAZ]

Trump could run for a 3rd term, win, serve the four additional years and still be out of office before someone could spin up a brand new auto manufacturing plant in US. Nissan's lead time on a new model vehicle is ~4 years to build it at a plant that already exists. The idea that you can just flip the 25% tariff switch and immediately start producing vehicles in the US is naive. If we really want to bring manufacturing back to the US, an actual long term plan is necessary, with a clearly defined ramp up to penalties and tariffs. Anything else is short sighted political grandstanding.

The real joke is that it's all a moot point anyways. In 10 years 90% of automotive manufacturing jobs in the US will be performed by physical AI using robots from... you guessed it, China.

Congress will never pass the chance for a third term. They’ll stab themselves a million different ways being fools, but they won’t go that far. I’d bet everything I own that it won’t happen.

 

[Who.Am.Eye.2716]

You get what you vote for.

That's going to be for every politician in office. It doesnt matter we vote for, they will do something that everyone cant agree on.

 

[RobotAZ]

I took my car for its first oil change today and my dealer now has 12 2025 Z’s. Sports are selling for $39k.

I’m curious if the tariffs are on existing or new inventory.

 

[Mugzilla]

Wondering if I should pull the trigger on a complete LSD rear end before April

 

[915Zsport]

I took my car for its first oil change today and my dealer now has 12 2025 Z’s. Sports are selling for $39k.

I’m curious if the tariffs are on existing or new inventory.

Only on inventory that enters the country after midnight on April 3rd.

 

[RobotAZ]

I stay out of politics and have been registered independent as a voter for 34 years. I vote for the lessor of the evils in most cases. I know there are lots of opinions on this, but here’s mine trying to stay completely in the logic lane.

The US is $37 trillion in debt that is quantifiable. The luxury of the power the US has had due to the dollar and free trade has come at a severe cost due to the Federal government doing nothing but making it worse.

A long time ago I got an MSEE degree and an area of focus was analog and digital control systems. Some of you may know a bit about controls and how a system is modeled with a step function that is a mathematically infinite spike at T=0. As time goes on, you have basically four instances as to how the signal responds in your control system. It’s too damped and never responds as designed, under damped and spirals out of control, under damped and never approaches it’s target, or damped perfectly and as quickly as possible neither over shoots or undershoots for long and stabilizes where it’s supposed to be.

Here is what is happening. This dramatic controls response never should have been required but here we are. So how do you get a controlled response that’s neither too slow and the debt keeps pushing us further and further out or so fast that the system spirals out of control? You respond with a control mechanism that overshoots enough that you know you’ve reached and exceeded your target, and you do whatever you can to keep the oscillations back and forth on a trajectory that evens out where you want it as quickly as possible. When you program a machine to do anything, including simulate human movement and thinking, this control theory is basically the core of everything, and it extends as a modeling tool across practically anything that you want to model.

My opinion is that the reactions from Americans and the world tell us that we have overshot the target enough to get control of the debt. The question is whether or not smart enough people are watching this modeled as a control system and affecting opinion and policy well enough to control the back and forth oscillations such that we end on the target as quickly as possible. The target is a balanced budget and some measurable progress towards manageable debt, if not getting debt free so we can spend a trillion on our country instead of interest on debt.

But there is no other option. You either overshoot and correct, or you never reach your target because you’re too damped. Try to step away from the politics and hang on. I sincerely believe the world is going to be more stable over time if responses continue in the direction they’re taking us. I just wish everyone could realize something has to be done for basically everyone on earth or we are just cruising towards a worse and worse outcome. Financial belt tightening hurts. It’s never fun unless the debt on your head was so oppressive that any relief feels better. I’m in that latter group and have already talked to my wife about the sacrifices we will have to make over time if our country really does fix its finances. I plan to sacrifice for the rest of my life to see it through.

To me it’s whether people want more for them, or more for future generations. On average, it can’t be both for everyone.

There have been many instances in world history prior to this that we can look at. Recorded history with no mention of finances even provides examples of this control system in action. Read history and books full of facts for answers. You listen to the media and you’ll lose your marbles, by design.

All that said, there was already a polarity forming in world economic and supply channels.The pandemic accelerated it. My personal opinion is that the momentum was in a direction that doesn’t necessarily make conditions worse in the US, but it simply was not altering quickly enough and that the control response, the process of getting control of debt and not going down the drain, was an overdamped process and required some signal to get the system to overshoot and start a path towards stabilizing at a target.

 

[Mugzilla]

Not gonna lie; I think SOMEONE is either an AI, or waaaay smarter than my "I get crayons for Christmas" brain functions....

 

[Katum68]

Mustangs have their engines and transmissions built in Canada and Mexico. How will they tariff that??

 

[915Zsport]

Mustangs have their engines and transmissions built in Canada and Mexico. How will they tariff that??

25%

 

[Mugzilla]

Mustangs have their engines and transmissions built in Canada and Mexico. How will they tariff that??

President Trump stated that, if 25% of a car is built internationally, then that 25% will be tariffed. Mustang costs $40,000, so $10,000 will be tariffed. (I'm using fuzzy math to make it simple. Like me.)

 

[ForSale24]

If that happens, our Z’s will worth a lot more. Worse case scenario, Nissan will build a plant in the US like Porsche will be doing to avoid tariffs.

i think "worst case scenario" is Nissan dies and parts for our cars 3x because of greed they will call it inflation but even U.S. parts makers like Z1 will go UP and UP... a lot of us will be forces to sell a car most never planned to part with.