The way to do it is with quotas. 100,000 vehicles per year per manufacturer with a country cap of 10% of previous year’s total passenger-vehicle sales (the latter currently 15+ million in America).

Then you slowly ramp up those limits over time to e.g. 200,000 and 20%. Enough to give consumers respite and producers a taste of the true competition. But not so much of a shock as to cause a mass extinction.

they won’t. china is so far ahead with (won’t get it why and now)… they are making their way though into Cali ( https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/us-news/high-tech-chinese-cars... ) but I suspect the Gov will intervene sooner rather than later