Mattel trusted their factory to continue on painting without lead paint after they performed their initial CE approval on the toys,but typical Chinese too save a buck do what they want !

Buy Chinese cars……..even if they did finally have them 5 star safety rated who would trust them that every car that came out of the factory was the same as the first! Not me.

even thier sweet wrappers are so high quality.

i would avoid chinese cars at all costs. even hyundai has not reached toyota levels yet and they would need another 20-30 years. so for china to reach hyundai levels….i’d be pretty old then and life would be too short to even consider buying a chinese car to save money.

Does that justify the right of critizing other cultures such as food and such?

Our products are tested for arsenic ……ect do you even think about everything else they dish out to us! Try not too!

We too make kids toys and supply the world market……Mattel would have had NO idea what the Chinese were doing to them!

We deal with Chinese manufacturers every day……You have NO comeback in that Country ,they do what they want,,,,even with Mattel……trust me they hide what they can and make money from what every thing they manufacture

You think you should worry what is in your kids toys, what about what is in every thing you put in your mouth? Toothbrush included! They make every thing ….almost. Test every thing we come in contact with!

There isnt enough watch dog practice there.
I feel this is the way it is due to the flipflopping practices of its own government…

Communist when it suits them but trade like capitalists.

With communism, everyone is poor equally.
Captitalism, only select few help each other to gain market-share due to handshakes and not quality.

Back to the topic however, I think some successful lawsuits & minimum safety requirements may be what the Chinese manufacturers need to lift their game. Remember it all comes down to what’s profitable, if copied and unsafe cars aren’t able to be sold to foreign markets then the Chinese manufacturers will be missing lots of potential sales, and the oportunity to break into a new market, so they’ll play ball if they have to. I’d guarantee a relatively safe (and lawsuit free!) chinese car could sell well in the small (read: cheap) car market here.

As for FIAT – anyone seen the new 500 based Abarth SS? What a ripper! *180HP*.

Many of their executives went to jail for failing to do warranty recalls on faulty products, including wheels falling off school buses.

And the Japanese ripped off many English cars in their early days, some with permission, some not.

We were privileged to be able to choose between quality cars such as Vauxhall Viva and the frightful Toyota Tiara, all of which were far better than the current Chinese offerings.

Many years ago I was warned to be cautious when doing business with international people, the saying was you had to count your fingers after shaking hands. I’ll leave it up to your imaginations as to which nationalities issued handshakes that were dangerous.

I saw many people burned badly when purchasing computer parts from overseas during the PC boom days of the early 90s

Now there is one country which has cost a toy company many millions of dollars by using lead paint on children’s toys. Won’t name the country, you know, may be interpreted as racist, but it serves Mattell right for taking their eye off the ball.