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Spotted this morning in Cambridge, MA!

Is this actually still something special at all? I remember at some point people were pretty excited about Mach-E police cars. How common is that at this point?

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Wonder if they are using that one for patrols, or a community service vehicle like a lot of IDs are doing. It is cool to see them around!
 


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Personally, I would prefer to see our tax dollars go to US manufactured EVs.
And yet you drive cars that are "foreign" made. ?

They may have used the same logic to purchase said cars as you used my friend. ;)
 

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And yet you drive cars that are "foreign" made. ?

They may have used the same logic to purchase said cars as you used my friend. ;)
Kinda weird to be concerned with how a private citizen spends their hard earned money. I could care less what you or any other person spends their money on. I own a MachE, which is built in the same country that Audi makes their SQ5. I personally don't care. But if money is taken from Americans I believe it should be reinvested in them.

The federal government has regulations in place requiring the purchase of American made products unless no alternatives exist. Biden has even expanded this. I didn't make those rules.

Alternatives, in this case exist with Tesla, Rivian etc but for some reason (likely because of unions) they have elected to buy a foreign assembled vehicle.
 
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Personally, I would prefer to see our tax dollars go to US manufactured EVs.
Personally I would like to see police drive bolts. Especially in cities,.
 

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Buy America Act only requires 50% parts and labor be American. The Mach-E's may qualify. Also, there may be an exception in the law. I seem to remember that Canada has one. Why not Mexico? Ask your congress person.
 

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Kinda weird to be concerned with how a private citizen spends their hard earned money. I could care less what you or any other person spends their money on. I own a MachE, which is built in the same country that Audi makes their SQ5. I personally don't care. But if money is taken from Americans I believe it should be reinvested in them.

The federal government has regulations in place requiring the purchase of American made products unless no alternatives exist. Biden has even expanded this. I didn't make those rules.

Alternatives, in this case exist with Tesla, Rivian etc but for some reason (likely because of unions) they have elected to buy a foreign assembled vehicle.
As a private citizen, you would also be helping the American Companies by purchasing from US made products.

Personally, I don't care but it was you that was concerned where money is spent and I simply highlighted that point. Didn't "your" money come from US taxpayers indirectly as well? I am guessing that much of the money you have came from US citizens. ;)

I just think that it is ironic that you don't see that if a US manufacturer doesn't get "your" dollar, they really are in the same boat at the end of the day whether it came from your pocket directly or indirectly via a tax. That is, if you are truly concerned with the US worker. ?
 

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Buy America Act only requires 50% parts and labor be American. The Mach-E's may qualify. Also, there may be an exception in the law. I seem to remember that Canada has one. Why not Mexico? Ask your congress person.
Well technically both Canada and Mexico are America ?
 

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I just think that it is ironic that you don't see that if a US manufacturer doesn't get "your" dollar, they really are in the same boat at the end of the day whether it came from your pocket directly or indirectly via a tax. That is, if you are truly concerned with the US worker. ?
You're basing my past vehicle purchases on an assumption that I don't attempt to buy American products as a whole. My choice to purchase several Audi's in the past are because they have been reliable and they fit my needs whereas many other options at the time didn't or I had prior bad experiences with those brands. Ultimately, I'm going to protect myself and my family. The government has policies to do the same, protect our investments and increase reliance of domestic supply chains. All I'm saying is that there's a lot of EV options that are made here and I feel they should have chosen those vehicles over the MachE. It's not an insult to the MachE and it's unfortunate that Ford shipped assembly out of the country. Ford's reasoning for doing this is because of the free trade agreement Mexico has with the Asian and European regions. It's just a money grab on behalf of Ford while hurting American auto workers.

Yes, technically America is a continent, but Americans are typically referred to as those in the USA and that's the way I'm using it. Being that I speak, read and write fluent Spanish, in some parts of South America they actually refer to us as "Estadounidenses" or people of the United States rather than "Americanos" or Americans.
 

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You're basing my past vehicle purchases on an assumption that I don't attempt to buy American products as a whole. My choice to purchase several Audi's in the past are because they have been reliable and they fit my needs whereas many other options at the time didn't or I had prior bad experiences with those brands. Ultimately, I'm going to protect myself and my family. The government has policies to do the same, protect our investments and increase reliance of domestic supply chains. All I'm saying is that there's a lot of EV options that are made here and I feel they should have chosen those vehicles over the MachE. It's not an insult to the MachE and it's unfortunate that Ford shipped assembly out of the country. Ford's reasoning for doing this is because of the free trade agreement Mexico has with the Asian and European regions. It's just a money grab on behalf of Ford while hurting American auto workers.

Yes, technically America is a continent, but Americans are typically referred to as those in the USA and that's the way I'm using it. Being that I speak, read and write fluent Spanish, in some parts of South America they actually refer to us as "Estadounidenses" or people of the United States rather than "Americanos" or Americans.
I agree with you on all points, but I would say the police also prefer the classic brand and car image. Had the police been getting Ionic 5s there would have been revolt and more stir.
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