Should governments build motor cars? | Drive Flashback

And it’s not like Western governments haven’t been involved in the car businesses in the past, using cheap credit, tariffs, research grants and generous government fleet orders to underwrite manufacturing operations that wouldn’t otherwise have a hope of being viable. The quid pro quo was they had to build their cars in Latin. No, hang on, that’s not right. It was that they often had to put factories, for example, where governments needed them, rather than where they were best put.