Every nation goes through this cycle. German cars once sucked. Then their engineers got better at making them. Japanese cars sucked, and "Japanese car" was once a synonym for junk. Now they are some of the best around. China used to have a reputation as making trash cars. That is now changing rapidly too.This is because American cars have never been distinguished by their quality. Only Chinese cars are worse.
With the new tariffs rewarding mediocrity in the US, expect US cars to become the new trash. and Chinese cars to be the standard for reliability.