Chinese Cars are Coming! Chinese Cars are Coming!

They'll kill us dead. GM, Ford, D-C, all dead as a door nail. This is a
clear and direct threat to this nation. If the President and Congress do
not act to stop this in its tracks, constellation impeachment is in order.
Yes, you will get cheap cars. For five years you will get cheap cars.
Then our entire industrial base will be dead as a door nail and our dollar
will collapse. The depression that follows will make the Great Depression
look like Spring Time in Bavaria. It will be all over for us. We are dead
men walking and you have been warned.

Don't believe it? Look what happened to our commercial electronic industry
after Asia drove in its claws. Multiply this by a million-fold and you can
visualize what will become of our automotive industry.

 

Don't EVER forget what happened to the US fountain pen and pencil industry. Dead
too!!

 

If Bricklin is involved, it'll just be another scam to line his pockets -
probably with greedy would-be dealer cash.

Just ask the Canadian and New Brunswick (state) governments!

Jeff


They'll kill us dead. GM, Ford, D-C, all dead as a door nail. This is a
clear and direct threat to this nation. If the President and Congress do
not act to stop this in its tracks, constellation impeachment is in order.
Yes, you will get cheap cars. For five years you will get cheap cars.
Then our entire industrial base will be dead as a door nail and our dollar
will collapse. The depression that follows will make the Great Depression
look like Spring Time in Bavaria. It will be all over for us. We are dead
men walking and you have been warned.

Don't believe it? Look what happened to our commercial electronic industry
after Asia drove in its claws. Multiply this by a million-fold and you can
visualize what will become of our automotive industry.

 

Do you people believe the Chinese cars will be SO good, and SO cheap, they
will displace the cars we are buying??? Personally, I don't think so.
People in North America and Europe still enjoy a good measure of qualityand
reliability. If the Chinese cars are manufactured cheaply in the same
manner as other goods from the Orient, then I think consumers will stay away
from them in droves. Nomen.....you are an alarmist. Shame on you.

Arthur

 

The " chery QQ EZ-Drive " will come to the market ( US ) at 62,800
yuan ...... thats about $ 7600 US .... and not a bad looking little
car.

 

The same was said about Japan after WWII history will repeat itself.

HarryS

 

If the Chinese cars are manufactured cheaply in the same

Don't think so !! Consumers are flocking to buy all types of Chinese
and other Oriental produced goods thanks to our greedy big corporations
having the products manufactured offshore. It's difficult to find a
camera or any piece of electronic equipment that's not made in the
Orient. It's strange that communist China has became a major producer
of our goods but we had better not take a vacation in Cuba with that
Chinese camera! Sad that in one generation we have went from being a
nation of producers to a nation of consumers drowning in debt.
What's next? Borrowing from China?

 

I hate to tell you this but we are already borrowing from China. Who do you
think is underwriting much of our massive deficit?

 

That's OK we will just declare bankruptcy in about 10 years and all those
Chinese
investors will get screwed Mah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa!! ;-) It's the
American Way!! ;-)

Actually though I think it might be a net benefit to the economy - think of
all
those auto mechanic positions that are going to be created for people that
will
be needed to fix those cars. Maybe we can put all our out of work software
developers through retraining programs to make them into mechanics? ;-)

Ted

 

Sort of like that army of TV/VCR repairmen that fixes our Chinese
electronics? Hmmmm?

I think we'd be pretty foolish to not be able to predict how this is going
to play out. Cars are basically the last thing that is made in Japan.
Everything that used to come from Japan, except cars, now comes from China
with Japanese technology. Japanese labor is more expensive than American
labor, so they outsource some of their production facilities here where it
would be cheaper. Well, Chinese labor is reallly cheap, and the quality is
still good. If the Chinese goverment is logical enough to see this coming,
you should be too.

If you want to support auto mechanics, buy a Fiat made by the Italian
government, not the Chinese.

 

Customers seeking the lowest possible price, a not unlaudable aim. In many
cases you still have the choice.

Let's take a simple example of a suit I just bought from a well-known
department store in London. My choice was down to two very reputable
'premium' British brands. Even after the sale reduction one was still over
GBP 100 dearer than the other. There was a difference of over GBP 200 in
the pre-reduction price.

I asked the salesman in the dearer section to explain the differences, and
it boiled down to location of manufacture and source of fabric. But was
there such a quality difference? I doubt it.

(If you're wondering, I bought the dearer garment because it was a slightly
better fit and I fancied that label on this occasion.)

And, what's more, a friend of mine was the buyer for a famous brand of
casual wear based in New York and now he is production manager for another
big brand of casual wear, also in NYC. Both jobs entail visiting the
supplyers' factories. And why are they not in the USA, Britain, Italy etc
(all places where workmanship is very good)? Because you, the American
buying public, won't pay for it.

Of course, same applies everywhere. The UK textile industry has shrunk for
the same reasons.

DAS
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Already here, sunshine.

DAS

 

http://www.gm.com/company/corp_info/history/gmhis2000.html

Excellent idea (for US-centric positions)...well, quite good anyway...FIAT
has GM on the share register (hence good idea) but isn't quite up to other
western European companies' standards yet...

DAS

 

There's a reason for that and it's tied up in human nature.

If given a choice people will prefer to pay $100 a month for 10 years for a
particular product, than to pay $7,000 now, even when that monthly payment
is costing them an extra $5000. This is true EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE
the $7000!!!!

Buying good quality is the same type of deal. The best quality stuff always
costs more - but it lasts longer, and doesen't break down, so in the long
run you save money. Cheap crap generally doesen't cost much up front,
but it's more than made up for that over the same time period.

Thank God that there's enough people that understand this so that the
manufacturers of the best quality stuff don't go completely out of business.

Ted

 

<<There's a reason for that and it's tied up in human nature.
If given a choice people will prefer to pay $100 a month for 10 years
for a
particular product, than to pay $7,000 now, even when that monthly
payment
is costing them an extra $5000. This is true EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE
the $7000!!!!>>

Well, the nature of STUPID humans maybe...not me! Hard enuf for me to
want to spend the 7000 I got, let alone the 7000 I AIN'T got.

Frenchy

 

In all likelihood, Chinese cars will hit the market as "fringe players"
which are mediocre in design and quality like the first Japanese and Korean
cars, and over time, will mature to be competitive in many market segments.
Consider the first Japanese cars sold in North America. They were low-end
products which rusted badly and had power trains that were ok, but nothing
more. Now, some of the best cars in the world are Japanese. Korean cars
aren't that far along yet, but after only about 15 years in the US market,
they are now serious players in the mid-size car and small SUV markets.
Expect nothing different from Chinese cars.

 

The only Fiats you can buy in the US are the very fast, and expensive ones
from the Ferarri division. By the way, Fiat is now partly owned by GM.