Land Rover has the lowest new-to-new loyalty of any manufacturer pretty consistently. This should be an excellent proxy for how reliable their cars are.

Yes, theoretically they could do that, but it would be pretty easily acknowledged as barely constitutional and illegal under US law (signed trade treaties) to ban named foreign competitors when you start losing.

That’s the thing though: a car made in Mexico can’t be banned without banning basically every automaker.

The only avenues to something like this would be convincing Mexico to make a major law change to prevent Chinese companies from operating.

I work for an OEM and one of the wildest things I learned on the job is that up until about 2017, Mexico effectively had no vehicle safety requirements. It was basically just seatbelts and headlights and you are good to go.

This made it easy to bring decontented European models to market. US safety laws (Canada uses a lightly modified version of US FMVSS) are a technical trade barrier designed to prevent foreign automakers from entering without significant cost.

And when companies do produce decontented vehicles, people wince at the price because options are typically the “cheap” part of the car and then don’t buy them.

The lesson is that most internet commenters are lying/cheapskates and you should produce what the market continually tells you to produce.