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The Foreign Markets 2024: Issues & Trends

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While many of the articles written for GoodCarBadCar are centralized on the North American market, the truth is that the global automotive industry is highly interconnected. There are vehicles from Japan, South Korea, the UK, and the EU playing significant roles in markets worldwide, sometimes with models and entire brands that are not available in North America.

Those models, trims, and markets all have their own triumphs and challenges, with many of those having ripple effects into the local North American market in ways that may not be readily apparent. Today, we will investigate a few key factors that originate in these foreign markets that quite often have global effects.

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