Cheap russian gas is gone, so now all industry sectors (not only cars) are not as competetive as before.

They are now downsizing, etc in order to save themselves.

Do you know that German car manufacturers have factories worldwide (except Porsche)? And they are still quite profitable.

Sure but we are talking about german industrial output, and one of the main reasons for problems here is the absence of the cheap energy that was available until the russian invasion of ukraine.

Energy prices? Unit labour costs? Pisa Scores? VC Investments as percentage of GDP? Number of IPOs? Taxation of Income? Punctuality of public transport?