Comments on: Fiats to be made in China

By: Lukaas

Lukaas — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:00:49 +0000

Shak…
I’ve seen a lot of your posts here, made me chuckle on some of them, a few were worth reading. But what you said just then about China..

You’re pretty much on the ball.

Why?
Those guys are relentless workers, sure they have limitations in their society in comparison to the other western countries. But they make everyone look lazy.

No joke, I was once one of those people that always had doubts on Chinese manufactured things, they are cheap for a reason. But you know, with some guidance from established corporate systems etc… and in combination with the effort they put in…. give them 10 years and they’ll be one of the most significant manufacturing countries in the world… automotive included. I for one can attest some “established” and “BIG” automotive companies are racing to establish Chinese plants…. and soon they’ll be there… a lot more!!

By: Frontman

Frontman — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:43:29 +0000

Realcars, Itake on board what you have said, but stand by my electronics comment. Last Italian I owned with elcetrical gremlins?? 2000 y/m 156 selespeed.
Would I own another Alfa, considering the pain? You bet.

By: Marcoz

Marcoz — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:19:06 +0000

Ok i think i might just resubmit my first comment with more specifics. I for one am not bagging italian made fiats, ive owned 7 of them over my 37 years on this planet and the majority were the 70′s cars (rust an all) and i loved them all. but the new ones are just so so much better i love them, the 500 i love it but the price, thats another story, i probably would look at a ritmo for work/promotional purposes next year. But the quality that might come from china with fiat badges right now,im sorry but they have a long way to go in china in regards to car quality. When that gets better thier will be no question of more people buying them for sure.
And someone made a comment about chinese technology in the fiats will go a long way in the near future, i would agree with that totally. Every manufacturer/car company or whatever needs time to get things right, but for now id like to buy my fiat or alfa from italy…im also looking forward to the thought of rwd fiats or alfas, now thats back to the good old days of fiats…without the rust..

By: realcars

realcars — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:05:21 +0000

U guys that talk rust and Italian cars are living in the seventies when everything else on wheels suffered the same fate to varying degrees.

Old designs being reborn and Mitsubitshi must be the equivalent of Fiat in Asia.

Chinese materials in any form will be substandard.
Must add other muck to make it go further I reckon.

By: AAA

AAA — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:16:52 +0000

FIATs made in Italy: Nobody in Aust or the US buys.
FIATs made in China: ?

By: Shak

Shak — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:19:46 +0000

So what many of you are saying is just because something is made in China you wont buy it. Well that means that anything you buy in the next week will also fall into this category. If you guys didnt hear this news you would have had the same image of Fiat in your minds. China will overtake the world in manufacturing and they have to start somewhere.

By: Frontman

Frontman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:13:34 +0000

The part of this mariage that I will appreciate the most will be when the Chinese Electronics make their way into the Italian cars.. too many hours of my life have been spent figuring out the electrical faults of Fiats and Alfa’s (to the dulcit tones of them quietly rusting whilst you work )

By: Ben Richards

Ben Richards — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:05:32 +0000

All the old italian jokes are really boring, the italians are the new 80′s japenese. They are the best at the business table now. As I always say ‘There are italians, then those who want to be italian’. Fiat is the new world super power in cars

By: Benito

Benito — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:03:19 +0000

FrugalOne, your irrelevant 2000 year old examples are disturbing my concentration while I try to cut the rust out of my new Ritmo.

By: DGS

DGS — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:00:41 +0000

Any one else remember where Lada got its designs (perhaps tooling) from?

Will we be seeing a repeat of history, resurected Fiat models flooding the cheap and extreamly nasty end of the market?