Redesigned for the 2024 model year, the Lincoln Nautilus has since gone on to become a commercial and critical success. However, as Ford Authority reported last fall, the U.S. Commerce Department has proposed prohibiting key Chinese software and hardware in connected vehicles on American roads, which would effectively ban all of those types of vehicles from the U.S. – including the Lincoln Nautilus, which is produced in China at the Changan Ford Hangzhou Assembly plant and imported into the U.S. Now, it seems as if we won’t have to wait much longer to discover the fate of the luxurious crossover.
According to Reuters, Raimondo and the Commerce Department plan to finalize proposed rules cracking down on Chinese software and hardware next week. If the proposed rules do in fact become law, Chinese-based software and hardware would have to be removed from vehicles sold in the U.S. by the 2027 and 2029 model years, respectively. “We wanted to hear from industry. We had to get it right. We digested all of that comment and now we’re going to get this out,” Raimondo said in an interview. “It’s really important because we don’t want two million Chinese cars on the road and then realize… we have a threat.”
Multiple entities have expressed concerns about this proposed rule, including the Ford-backed lobby group Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which stated that “there’s actually very little technology – hardware or software – in today’s connected vehicle supply chain that enters the U.S. from China. But this rule will require auto manufacturers in some cases to find alternate suppliers. You can’t just flip a switch and change the world’s most complex supply chain overnight. It takes time.”
China’s commerce minister Wang Wentao has also expressed “serious concerns” about potential restrictions for Chinese connected vehicles, while some automakers have called for an extension to the proposed deadline. Regardless, that technology could soon be banned from vehicles sold in the U.S., as well as Canada, potentially.
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Like the days of small imported pickups, where the basic vehicle was built overseas and the bed was put on here once it landed, build the basic Navigator in China and add the computer hardware and software once it lands in the USA. What’s Buick doing?
The same thing with the Envision! Pulling out of China might behove us all.
Makes no sense, all this anti Chinese is based on racism, the most likely adversary in the future is Russia, who doesn’t like the status quo now as their position in the world is diminished. China is happy right now, making money 💰. Most products are built in China, it’s the reason American Companies are making record profits as their manufacturing and labor costs are lower than ever, even after shipping back to the States. Bringing manufacturing back would fundamental change the US economy as their Labor costs would skyrocket.
It has nothing to do with racism. China keeps propagating cyberattacks on our country like the recent attack on the US Treasury. I would never buy a Chinese Lincoln. Bring it back to the USA.
I will not buy a Lincoln or any other domestic name that is made in China!!!!
So where does this insane policy leave those driving new Nautiluses? Hope new administration revokes this bs.
An American made vehicle should be made in the United States. Bring back all of the jobs that have been sent to other countries and put our people back to work. I don’t want a car that’s supposed to be US A made being made in China or any place else. Bring back our jobs to The USA
U’all get real friendly with the snake ’til it bites u . . .
Why ever manufactured there in the first place? Greed of the U.S. manufacturers and middle men for exorbitant profits.
The Chinese software and hardware should be immediately banned, if Ford thought producing a car in china for import, bad decision
And what about us that already have one. Will the vehicles have to be recalled, and technology replaced?