Chinese cars coming to Australia
March 19, 2008 by Alborz Fallah
It’s official. Chinese cars will be here next year. Ateco, the Australian importer of European prestige brands such as Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Citroen and Fiat has just announced plans to import cars made by Chery Automobile Company.
The two companies have been in talks since late 2005 but the distributorship agreement was only executed earlier this month.
“We believe that China represents the future as a source of automotive products which makes this association with Chery a very exciting development for Ateco,” Ateco governing director, Neville Crichton said.
Ateco will import three Chery models to Australia next year, a light and a small passenger car as well as a small SUV. Depending on sales success, there is a good possibility of more models making their way here with Chery expected to expand its range with 38 new models over the next five years.
The SUV is more than likely going to be the Tiggo 3 (pictured above), the light car is still unknown while the small car could look something like this:
The A1 is a great attempt by Chery to enter the small car market. Utilising a front-wheel drive setup, the car was designed by struggling Italian design house Bertone. Currently it’s available with either a 1.1-litre (50kW @ 6000rpm and 90Nm @ 3500rpm) or a 1.3-litre engine (61kW @ 6000rpm and 114Nm @ 3800).
The A1 is only available with a five-speed manual gearbox and returns a fuel economy of around 6L/100km, according to official figures.
A national dealer network is currently in the works and all Chinese cars will be sold and badged as Chery.
The task to establish a new brand will be very difficult. Any early mishaps (e.g. bad ANCAP rating) could potentially damage the reputation of Chery irreparably. Nonetheless, with Ateco’s experience in public relations and marketing, Chery might just stand a chance.
Despite the many negatives we have seen over the last 12 months, with the likes of Chinese manufacturer Brilliance failing miserably in Europe, Chery is arguably the best of the Chinese automakers.
The company started building cars in late 1999 (yes, not that long ago) and managed to sell 1 million cars in its first 8 years of operation. In 2007 it sold 261,000 vehicles domestically and exported another 120,000.
Chery can currently manufacture 650,000 cars a year but plans to expand that to 1 million in the next few years. According to the company, all cars are produced in “ultra modern” factories using “extensive production equipment from overseas, usually Europe”. The company employs about 25,000 people.
It will be interesting to see how Ateco plans to advertise and market Chery next year. The Chinese brand will have a lot to prove and critics will undoubtedly give the company a hard time.
But the real issue is not about mishaps and negative reviews, it’s a core values question, if the price is right, would you buy a Chinese made Chery vehicle?
Print it: 
thats right Herbal Teapot,
it amazes me how many people bag Hyundais, yet they were actually pretty reliable and basic.
the cheap 13,990 prices got them market share. once they got in they started to really up the equipment levels. the excell replacement “accent”, actually won a few awards for its offerings. from memory it was pretty much one of the first small cars to have dual airbags etc
yeah… but Hyundai aren’t Chinese are they?
Why do people keep referring to the Korean manufacturers? Because they’re Asian too?? What the hell has LG got to do with anything?
Maybe it’s unintentional, but this reference to other oriental manufacturers in this context is a little racist…
…especially when you consider that the death of the British auto industry proved the English could never get it right.
It doesn’t matter that these little pus-boxes are from China – so is most of the Holden Commodore! – it’s the shonky reputation of Chinese manufacturing standards that has me worried. In a car – that’s a real concern. For anyone who cares about safety and reliability, that is.
I agree with Flying High. The situation’s frightful.
BTW: anyone remember the VW Polo sedan made in China and sold here a few years ago?
Thought not.
Oh dear – I guess the market here will decide if this brand will stay or go!
Ford is No.1; you make a very valid point in regards to protecting the industry- I personally , being a fan of variety embrace something (somewhat)interesting and new being brought to the table (even if in this case, its intellectual property theft).However, it will undoubtedly impact the Australian manufacturing sect- and the government is the only one who can help it. Tariff reduction has seen a 1995 scenario where an automatic Lancer coupe was only a few grand cheaper than a Falcon GLi turn into our local heroes losing their price trump card. Especially as they try and push a premium image. Bear in mind that Ford, Holden and Toyota can only work within the tight constraints of their parents, it is remarkable to see the cars they build. Any criticism is undue or media driven shyte , and I fail to see how they will survive (under current circumstances) when the Chinese juggernaut builds up steam. The invasion is coming-and I would hate to see manufacturers so dear to the hearts of many Australians fall to the red army. Don’t neglect your auto industry, Canberra.
Dusty, your point about the Commodore mostly being manufactured in China is a crystal clear indictment on how they trade on their BS Aussie image. Shame on you Holden for selling out Australian jobs overseas, and forcing Korean junk onto unsuspecting victims.
Hi Guys,
I’m from China. I looked most of your guys’ comments about this Chinese Brand coming to Austrilia.
Here are some of my thinking:
1. Here I won’t try to argue about Chinese Products’ Quality. As you knew, Chinese did make lots of poor quality products to world. I know part of reasons. The manufacturing in China didn’t have very long history, we don’t have advanced technologies like European Countries, US, Japan and so on, andregarding this will we still have a long way to catch up with those countries. Second reason is the trading enviroment in the world, the traders always want to have much more profit, they want cost-down on their importing. That means the supplier in China has to satisfy their requirement, if you don’t do, you will lose your customer. In China, the salary for workers is rising, so you can’t cut down workers’ salary any more. The only way for them is to use the cheap raw material. That makes products bad. If you like to pay reasonable price, I’m damn sure you can buy good quality stuff from China either. Third, I do think some companies in China don’t have long-term view to balance the relationship between quality and profit. That’s something driving me crazy.
Anyway, there are lots of Chinese trying to make good quality products for people from all over world.
Please don’t take all Chinese products as bad. Just like you judge people, I don’t like Japanese who deny the atrocity to Our Chinese during 2nd world war, but I still like those Japanese with right opinion with this.
Our Chinese like Austrilians. If anyone has ever been China before, they can tell Chiese people welcome your guys.
Hi Eric. I’m in the UK I agree with a lot of your points. I personally do not have a problem with Chinese made vehicles wherever so so long as they are safe and comply with various regions standards.
More of a problem for all manufacturers is what appears to be a massive over production of vehicles generally and with markets like Australia and Europe that are saturated already, unless your Chinese brand cars offer something beyond normal (cheapness possibly) then they will have a very tough market.
I also have an opinion that it is not good for virtually the whole planet to be using China as a manufacturing base, economically it might stack up now but what of the future? You make note of wages going up, soon this will make china uncompetative subsequently losing some of its manufacturing oportunites.
Another point I have is China does not have a good environmental or human rights history and things seem to be taking too long to change. Your government is to blame for their actions and unless they listen and change things will count against them. The only way to change this is to make the noises as I am with you and vote with my wallet.
All the best mate.
Although I wouldn’t buy one for another 15-20 years, i’m sure lots of Aussies would. Look at how many idiots have bought the current model Barinawoo.
If they are cheap enough they will sell, you can count on it.
Remember Niki and Lada’s?Cheap [and nasty] and still sold them.
Punters want *new* even if its c*ap, which we CANNOT comment on these just yet, can we?
They WONT be any worse than the Holdwoo being sold by GMH, and they would most likely be better than a 15YO Asian made vehcile [anybrand]
Cheers
F-0
Ford is No.1 (yeah right) says:
“Wouldn’t you have the sense or bad feeling of being surrounded by China crap, Korean cars are bad enough eg, Daewoos and Kias..”
Please don’t forget the streets were littered with FORD Festiva’s not so long ago – A KOREAN CAR. Ford Australia made a right bundle flogging these off to the public (mainly young female first-time drivers) – Holden are just catching up!
The Fiesta and Focus are a step in the right direction, Holden and their second-rate offerings from Korea are taking 2 steps backwards in my opinion. Swings and roundabouts…
Mitsubishi Australia made a seemingly very good car (the 380) with the best warranty in the business – but nobody wanted it, unfortunately.
Including me.
Frugal one, people will buy cheap n nasty because the uneducated don’t know any better or people just don’t do any research.
Dusty, yes 16-21 years ago Korea made (KIA) Festivas, they were everywhere and still many around today but Ford learnt from their past mistakes, now GM Holden on the other hand source cars from Korea and are bluddy Daewoos for god sake, half the models Holden sell are Daewoos..
The quality of a car has little to do with where its made, but rather the quality of its design and the quality of its build or assembly.
Does any body have a problem with the build quality of cars from Thailand? Probably not. Because Honda, Ford and Toyota build cars and utes there that start with a good design and back it up with good quality control. Same with BMW 3 series that came from South Africa. Or the 30 to 40 thousand Corollas that come from there each year too.
The big questions for the Chinese manufacturers are:
1. Can they come up with a good design?
2. Can they build it well?
3. If they are successful with the first two, can they keep their prices low enough if wages keep rising and they finally float their currency. It is curently pegged at a fixed rate against the US dollar.(hence our huge buying power in china given the current FX rates.)
I’m sure many people will buy cars from China if they represent value for money. In 1994 Hyundai had waiting lists 3 months long for the X3 excel becuase it was priced right ($14999 drive away) and its quality was almost passable at that time.
No doubt the Chinese will try and repeat this formula.
Oh Sh!t, they’re not mucking around either…
Whois Result for chery.com.au @ whois.ausregistry.net
Registrant
Name
ATECO AUTOMOTIVE PTY LIMITED
ID
ABN 34000486706
Handle
C4995968-AR
At the end of the day, these things are just like Kias. People who want something for (near) nothing will buy ‘em. Can’t wait to see the crash tests, hahahaha!!!
My my, people are getting so worked up even before the cars have landed in Australia.
Well to be honest, as long as the quality is good and they are safe – it then all depends on how exciting the cars are…. obviously apart from the pricing factor.
The “quality conscious” VW manufactures in China, same with Buick…. I mean Buick is considered all American…?
Chevy builds there and so do most other companies.
Australian cars, even though competent, lack excitement. Where is the innovation in taking a big engine from the US and smacking it into a sedan, which essentially is a derivative design from various other Euro companies? Admittedly Ford has its straight 6 cyl engine made in Australia, but not for long.
Why don’t Falcodore consider making a smaller car designed for Australia and manufactured here… Ford is moving to build the Focus from 2010 but what about Holden?
U can make fun of Toyota or whatever other company you want to target, but the fact is that underneath it all most cars are the same (platform sharing), i mean buy a VW and you have bought half of the European cars! I don’t doubt that its a good platform, but the characteristics are going to be very similar.
“The quality of a car has little to do with where its made, but rather the quality of its design and the quality of its build or assembly.”
So you say Dlr1. Funnily enough, this is the line the car manufacturers use aswell. The reality is there are huge variations in quality, standards, skills, work practices etc. from country to country. It’s not all the same and it’s foolish to suggest that the country of manufacture is mostly irrelevant. That’s what the manufacturers would like you to believe.
So long as people get sucked into buying over-priced base-models with German badges – mere taxis in der Farterland – they’ll keep popping them out in the third-world for ‘discerning’ buyers in this country. What a scam!
“Does any body have a problem with the build quality of cars from Thailand? Probably not.”
I think there are many owners of Thai-built Hondas in this country (CRV, Jazz, Accord… I can’t remember the other models, I nearly fell asleep) who may disagree with you. This example, and there are numerous others I could cite, rather disprove the theory that it doesn’t matter where your car comes from. You should do some research…
And this, from Ab:
“The “quality conscious” VW manufactures in China, same with Buick…. I mean Buick is considered all American…?”
VW wanted an “in” to the Chinese market and this was a requirement. Yeah, they cobble together the Polo sedan there for the Aus market. See my earlier post…
Buick is a DEAD brand in the U.S. But like AVON and many other tired brands they live again in China!!
“Chevy builds there and so do most other companies.”
Big deal. Drove a Chevy lately? I rented an Impala SS for a week last month in California. China deserves Chevrolet and vice-versa….
Sorry to be so negative, but the only thing more annoying than importers peddling shite to the Australian consumer, is the Australian consumers hunger for crap-ola!! We can’t get anough apparently!! No doubt some of the new owners will have a ‘FREE TIBET’ bumper sticker, unaware of the irony…
All this talk about the company getting its act together in a few years – let ‘em get the product right BEFORE they export. Instead of carrying out their R&D in the marketplace.
Just watch these Chery things sell like hot pork rolls…
A pox on Ateco.
Dusty what is this racism wagon u are peddling.
Bloggers compare or mention the Koreans and before them The Jap as they have been at different times new players to the market just like the Chinese are today.
Can anybody remember the crap the Japs served us in the sixties,seventies and eighties? Then the Koreans did the same in the nineties and “some” would argue are still doing so.
U seem to have a contempt for the consumer. Apparently ok to buy boring over priced Toyotas but not Korean cars.
I think Hyundai and cousins will do to Toyota what they did to GM/FORD.I think the communist system will impede the Chinese auto industry and to achieve acceptable levels of quality.
I found Eric’s comments interesting.
Not many people know that China throughout its history was always the masters of mass production, the Terracotta Warriors is a well known example. They have been known to produce well, but its under this modern guise of communism with capitalist ways is what pushes profits above pride.
I think the only way people would ever take China serious in cars if they started using the west to help them.
Im sure the Chinese can beat the British/US/AUS in quality, but then again thats not saying much.
will these cars sell cheaper than a Hyundai?, if not thens theres a problem with the chinese built stigma they’ll have to overcome. Plus has this brand been successful outside of China? Have they tested other asian markets? on these cars?
Realcars (ahem) says”
“Dusty what is this racism wagon u are peddling.”
I give up. What’s a racism wagon? Something made in South Africa during the apartheid years?? And why am I peddling? Did someone nick the donk??
and:
“U seem to have a contempt for the consumer. Apparently ok to buy boring over priced Toyotas but not Korean cars.”
You, my friend, have an OBSESSION with Toyota. I never mentioned Toyota. And I never called them boring or said they were over-priced. You did.
Try and keep up…
And what’s this about “The Jap” Realcars?
Very World War 2.
hahahaha look at all u ignorant dumbasses…completely oblivious to what Chinnese car manufacurers already produces, yet all want to put in ur 2 cents worth of absolute crap!
There are countless Chinese corporations out there making decent products in manufacturing…Chrysler for one sells rebadged Chery vehicles.
But hey, lets just bag China for crappy manufacuturing when we here down under dont even have a manufacturing base!
We Know what the Chinese are up to, I just don’t like large crap pile’s around me, it’s stinky, nasty and waste of space, just like your arrogant comment waste of my precious reading time, Chery vehicles Made in China are not welcome here in my books….
“There are countless Chinese corporations out there making decent products in manufacturing…”
Countless? Name one. If you could, you would.
“Chrysler for one sells rebadged Chery vehicles.”
Not here they don’t. Dumbass.
Eric
china people like australians?
get ovr it. the only reason why they like autralians is that they can get big tips from caucasians.
the only good products that can come out of china are western/japanese/korean/taiwan governed companies using chinese labour. that is my opinion. the attention to quality needs to filter down from the top management to the blue collar workers for it to work .
u are right to say that i would buy a china car for a price. and i set the price at 6-8k aud for an equivalent 20kaud japanese/euro car. but since i cant even be bothered with korean cars these days i do not think i would be taking a look at china cars. even those receiving rave reviews like the i30 which i think is too much hype.
my only concern is that these cars will be bought as a ‘beat-up’ cars and especially used like one around other cars. that is what i dont welcome.
Dusty,
no one is affiliating the korean made vehicles with the chineese because they are asian. thats your idea not anyone elses.
they have been compared from the point of a business model.
they also both have a reputation for “cheap” cars
since when was comparing cheap cars racist?
Chery
Ive yet to see a decent product coming out from china at all… clothes, toys etc ive had alway broke, or degraded quickly. For me, they will need to ramp up their techniques and quality control and make a name in the global media before I will accept higher end products, let alone a Car (big investment).
These cars will be popular!! Sure. The same sory was in Russia. 3 years ago there was no chinese cars att all. All magazines reported about poor quality unreliability and so on.. But price solved all the problems with sales of these cars.. Nowadays sales grows 10 times a year. Corofull, not agly designed and cheap – these cars can not be unpopular and place of the world!!!
Since everything in this country is made in China anyway, including the people, what’s the difference if overpriced Chinese cars flood the market?
But don’t worry, it’s only temporary. Just wait another 25 years and the world will be made in India.
it will be daewoo all over again.
as already said people will buy them because they will have a 10K price tag on them.
then they will fold in OZ and have round 2 when GM buys the corporation and brings them back with silver lions on the grill
Anti Spam word……Daewoo. GOLF, ANDREW M….maybe there is a conspiracy theory here. Will research that one as if I find words on superhighway it must mean Iam right!
bandwagon Crusty,bandwagon.
Yes The Jap Crusty. Those whale eatin SOBs!! Ha Ha Ha.
They also ate a bit of human flesh too during the war!
‘china people like australians?
get ovr it. the only reason why they like autralians is that they can get big tips from caucasians.’
I am just amazed that this forum allows those China-haters keep posting this kind of arrogant and irrational comments. What we can see clearly is that these China-haters are no only bashing Chinese-made cars, but also trying to discredit other Chinese-made products. They are even going beyond the discussion topic of this article and expanding their hatred to normal Chinese people. This is NOT a joke. Making fun with other people based on their race and country of origin is simply irresponsible and unacceptable.
So Dusty, Whats your solution? You seem to be happy to dish out the crap but have no substance in reply.
What do we do? Shut our borders to imports? Close the local manufacturers down? Only buy cars from Germany? Ride a bike?
You seem to have missed the entire point i was making. It doesn’t really matter where its built as long as the QUALITY is right. If the quality is crap, don’t buy it. No matter whether its made here, USA, Germany, Poland, UK, France, China, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Brazil, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa ,South Korea, Belgium or any where else that cars are manufactured today.
Any intelligent person would probably realise that both every country and every manufacturer has at some point produced one or many models where the design or quality has been rubbish. Some(or many) still do. The point is judge each vehicle or manufacturer on its merits, not by where its made.
Ever heard the saying: “Don’t judge a book by its cover”?
Probably not.
Just remember there could be a big difference if something is ASSEMBLED IN versus COMPLETELY DESIGNED ASSEMBLED and CONTROLLED in a particular country, generally products being assembled in china under global brands (usually international parents that youd expect quality) tend to produce ok if not good products. This is because they will usually built under stringent quality controls / processes in what that parent company impose on them because there are going to international consumers which may have a higher expectation of the product being of that brand.
Im not being rascist or anything, (Yes I am Indonesian, I can bag my own type of people) but many emerging countries like Indonesia, companies still suffer from lackluster internal controls let alone prone to corruption which can adversly affect the quality of product that comes out from the factory floor.
If China wants to go global with Chery it will need to stamp this out (if not done already) and start appeasing the Media that its quality can match the Euros/Japanese etc and really become that good alternative.
Dlr1 wants to know what’s MY solution.
Not that it’s MY problem but, in response to your panic-stricken questions:
First of all, your suggestion that we “shut our borders to imports” is moronic. This would never work and what would be the point? Do you live in the real world?
You then remonstrate that we “close the local manufacturers down”. An idiotic statement. Do you know that the Australian automotive industry employs thousands of people? You git.
“Only buy cars from Germany?” queries Dlr1… if that turns you on, I say. (But remember the most popular car ever made in Germany was the Trabant. There was a long waiting list but that doesn’t mean it was a good car!)
Finally, a petulant: “Ride a bike?” from Dlr1. Wanna tissue sniffles? They make bikes in China too you dope. You must drive a Kia! China was once land of the bicycle – did you know that? Probably not.
You then go on to rattle off dozens of countries and almost the same number of cliches. Here’s some advice: anyone who says “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is usually hiding something. Or a fool.
Ever heard the saying: “you get what you pay for”?
No doubt you will.
Dusty, youre full of it.
Of course each car should be judged on its own merits. Not by the badge or country of origin. And while you’ve been bagging all chinese made products why don’t you come clean and admit that youve probably been typing on a chinese made keyboard. Are they responsible for your typos too?
What’s a typos?
Is it a new car from Greece I haven’t heard about?
Typos is a supercharged Echo developed from the Toyleta TeRD department…
LOL Cobra!
a typo is like an error. the only difference is an error is a supercharged FWD TuRD from Toyota when a “typo” is a spelling mistake. :D
Whoops, I did make a typo error spelt TuRD wrong, oh well back to my dictionary… :-)
For those who say all Chinese goods are crap is just plain wrong. 20 years of reform, there are already quite a numbers of respective Chinese companies coming up, namely Huawei, Lenovo and a few more.
Huawei
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Competitive position
Huawei’s global contract sales for 2006 reached USD11 billion (a 34% increase from 2005), 65% of which comes from overseas market. Huawei has now become a leading vendor in the industry and one of the few vendors in the world to provide end-to-end 3G solutions.[citation needed] In 2006, Huawei ranked No.1 in the global NGN market (Infonetics), No.1 in Mobile Softswitch (In-Stat), No. 2 in Optical Network (Ovum-RHK), No.1 in IP DSLAM (Infonetics), No.2 in broadband convergence routers (Gartner), and No.1 in MSAN market (Infonetics).[16]
Huawei Technologies was included in the World’s Most Respected 200 Companies list compiled by Forbes magazine in May 2007[17], one of the six from telecom industry.
[edit] Quality
Huawei was awarded 2007 InfoVision Awards from the International Engineering Consortium (”IEC”) at Broadband World Forum Europe 2007 for its SmartAX MA5600T Series Products and OptiX OSN 6800&3800 solutions. This is the 3rd consecutive years it won InfoVision Award; and it is the only vendor that received two awards in different categories: the SmartAX MA5600T Series Product in the Access Network Technologies and Services category and the OptiX OSN 6800 & 3800 product suite in the Metro Network Technologies and Services category.
Huawei Technologies grew by 45% and hit a fresh record of USD16 billion contract sales in 2007
Lenovo
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Lenovo Group Limited (SEHK: 0992,OTCBB: LNVGY) is today the fourth largest personal computer manufacturer in the world, after Hewlett-Packard and Dell of the US, and Acer of Taiwan.[1]
One should not look down on Chinese goods, you won’t have to wait for 10 years for Chinese goods to flood into every household, you won’t be surprise another 3 to 5 years, quality Chinese goods starting to pop up everywhere. Some say that Chinese can’t achieve anything and lack of creativity is just plain wrong. Chinese in oversea such as Taiwan, Singapore etc has proven that they have the creativity, quality and respectable company such as Creative, Acer, Nvdia (Found by a Chinese) and lots more are all found by Ethnic Chinese. So if those Chinese can achieve that why not their brother in the mainland? Instead of being ignorant, try to look at the Chinese including oversea Chinese oversea success; you will know that they have achieve more than you have expected.
China is not stupid, national pride is very important to them these days. They also understand that their products are causing opinion backslash throughout the world in the past few years. They will improve it and that i can’t assure you that. You won’t be surprise their products are on par with Korean in another few more decades or even earlier. Lots of people have underestimated them, from 2000 to 2008, how many improvements have they make? With a huge R&D budget ranked 2 in the world, more new fresh homegrown technology and innovation are created in China, if you take a dig at the technology development in China you can find quite numbers of new homegrown innovation popping up in China.
Instead of being pure ignorance, it is better to get prepare on how to compete with Chinese company before it’s too late.
Exposing the Australian car industry or any industry for that matter, will do one of two things:
1. Australian car manufacturers will close down and jobs will be lost, due to inability to compete.
Why? No productivity. Poor operations management.
2. Australian car manufacturers will get their act together, implement sound operations management strategies, increase productivity and build better cars.
Those of you who wish for Australian manufacturers to be protected by tariffs are only doing the Australian public bad. Because it means consumers wont have a good product that is competitive on the global market. Introducing imports is good for consumers, more choice, more competition, better products, competitive prices.
If the Australian companies made good enough products, enjoyed high productivity, employed lean production operations management strategies, and built globally competitive products and services, they would not be scared of losing to imports. Right?
Simple.
Ok then, first lets get the “R Tag” out of the way – Im not a racist, I LOVE Chinese food, I am a BIG fan of chinese herbs and alternate medicines, and have known many fine Chinese people. Now to the meaningful stuff …………
The big question here seems to be are the cars going to be safe? Personally, I would doubt it. In the past 2 weeks, I have had a Chinese angle grinder handle snap off, causing me injury. This was a brand new machine. Today, I returned the Chinese stick welder that I bought new two days ago after the able had fallen out of the welding rod holder (for the third time)giving me a shock. Along with it went the “smart” welding helmet, with solar powered auto darkening, which failed within ten minutes of use, leaving me flash blinded. The list goes on and on, the Chinese made elctric kettle whose cord exploded five years ago as my 16 year old daughter was making tea, the Chinese tie rod end that seperated at the ball joint after three weeks.
Sorry, Chinese stuff is, in my humble opinion, about 85% dangerous crap. The very thought of having to share the roads with CHINESE CARS makes my flesh creep! They could not pay me to own one. A further and tragic example is evidenced by the way so many of their buildings came down during the recent earthquake, it was clear from the news coverage that this was contributed to by shodd construction, including chicken wire for reinforcing in concrete!
This is to say nothing of toxic toys, anti freeze substituted into medicine, formaldyhyde in pet food, and many more.
Chinese cars? Naaah, dont think so!
Why should somone make profit from a product that is not competitive and is uses resources beyond its means. Should the Australian industry look at what is should produce? only the market can decide this, the same as why we are trying to sell rice to asia? crazy!
Is veryone forgetting the poor sweatshop workers. The only way to stop this, is by supporting the product, which in turn will bring economic strength to that country.
China will be undoubtdly the strongest economic force and possible the most powerfull nation ever, forget the sniveling USA. this is a reality, get with it.
Guys, these are the answers. stop talking about stupid things. Chinese cars are crappy.Korean cars are crappy. chinese cars are copycat and so are the korean. hyundai has been copying europiean and japanese cars for decades. Korea is not a first world country and they are a copycat.
how about samsung?there are a professional copycat.lol
wtf, what are you on Dave? SKorea is the 13th biggest economy (purchasing power GDP) in the world and 3rd in Asia with a per capita close to Australia, you don’t get to this stature by copying, and if they do they do it better!
Get back into your delorian and back to the future i mean past…
Japanese makers were same as korean makers last time or many years back. They copy from european or germany cars too. And now these japanese maker continues to copy too. But much more intelligent as they copy and reinvent or improve it. Blindfolded many of us. But just many years ago we not aware of it but now as many are more educated result in these insult to korean makers that tried to stand up in the market.
Hi, I am a Chinese who been living in Aus for 8 yrs. By reading everyone’s comments, I am surprised to see so many Australian got bad perception of Chinese made products. But be reasonable, before any of you actually drive or sit inside Chery, how could you judge its quality just because it’s China made?? If it is not safe and the quality is really bad, I believe it won’t pass the Australian standard to appear in the market here. So, DONT worry about the quality.
And extend to the general Chinese made products. 10 years ago, have you ever heard about or really saw Chinese made products? Now they are everywhere. Yes, you can say it’s crappy or copycat or whatever, but as time goes, it will get better quality and innovated design and advanced technology. It’s the competition. No matter where the products are made, if the customers are not happy, if the competitor got better products, they will not survive. So DONT worry about the future of China Made.
Further to talk about China, just only thirty years ago, China started introducing economic boosting policies and opening its door to the world. Then, see what happened – global companies enjoyed the benefits brought by Chinese cheap labour cost, consumers enjoyed the cheap goods made by China, and China enjoyed the polluted air and the running out of energy. I am alway amazed how little westerners know about China before they start criticizing. They don’t even know where Tibet is, however rudely shouting Free Tibet in Beijing during Olympics. And again, human right, can I ask, when millions of people are struggling to survive, would they really care about the politics system? They need to feed themselves before they can vote. And Chinese government did the good job. I doubt any other countries can feed as many people as China.
Thanks for listening to me. Go Chery! Go China!
SH, if China can feed more people then any country in the world, why are you in Australia. Please go back to China and enjoy your oppressive regime.
I think everyone knows where Tibet is. Everyone also knows that Tibet was once an Independent state. Everyone also knows that the CCP is an expert at painting a different picture of what is happening in Tibet.
Chery is blatantly copying other car models. Shame on Chery.
F&@K you all. China rules. China is the next super power.
Thank you.