China will not flood market with cheap cars
November 14, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
Chinese automakers will not flood the Western markets with cheap cars, according to Zhou Wenzhong, China’s ambassador to the United States.
With manufacturers in the U.S. and Europe worried about a Chinese invasion, Mr Wenzhong has assured the west that China’s own desire for cars will absorb the vast majority of the vehicles produced by Chinese manufacturers.
Although that doesn’t seem to be at odds with Chinese manufacturers Chery Automobile Co. and Geely Automobile Holdings Group which are already planning to export vehicles to the US.
Chrysler has already signed a deal with Chery which will see Chinese cars rebadged as Chryslers starting in 2009. It’s a similar move to Holden and Daewoo in Australia.
Chinese cars are still a few years away from the Australian market given the Chinese have decided to go for Europe and the US first. Chinese cars suffered a massive blow in credibility in Europe after the Brilliance BS 6 failed miserably in crash tests (video here).
There are rumours the Chinese government will rigorously inspect exported cars to prevent a public-opinion backlash. A rumour which the Chinese government has denied.
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*****PRIMO!*****
LOL,
They can keep them.
From what i have seen, they are rubbish, mutton dressed up as lamb.
A few that where crash-tested returned ZERO [0] in rating!
Might as well just lie down on the road and get run over, THAT bad.
All the same, if it was new and $5000 would be hard to ignore!
Cheers
F-0
To be fair Frugal, the said car above has re-taken the ENCAP and recieved 3 stars. Not to mention that there are some cars designed and made there that are quite appealing.
http://www.chinacartimes.com/2.....eets-soon/
I remember in school when the first Hyundai’s hit the market and how we used to laugh mercilessly at the poor schmoes that were picked up by their overweight mothers in them. Will it be our kids doing the same to their mates driving away in their little Chinese “XiangXhen Allure” or something as equally oxy-moronic in name.(Asian Brand name with a European Model designation)
Give ‘em a few years and they’ll be putting a few manufacturers out of business.
The dude is correct, they won’t be flooding the west with their substandard crap.
When their own home market is saturated with the stuff, and they have a road toll of 200 or 300 million deaths a year, they may improve the quality enough to capture some other third world markets.
We don’t want or need their death traps.
Wow looks like now holden will sign up to one of these companies and the best part they will not even have to make the crap that they are putting on our roads. China is cheaper then Korea so they would be creaming themselves over the thought of the gross profit.
Pfftt Chinese Government not implementing themselves in quality control…now theres a surprise! NOT!
I pay a quality control company in China and you still cant trust them………cars into AMERICA that become a safety problem,Chinese will simply blame someone else like they always do in production.
Until you can get quality controlled toys for your kids from them I wouldn’t be importing their cars America!
I wouldnt trust China on this.
They are just saying this so no big companies create plans to save their arses.
The EU is now protecting countries liek Italy for their huge textiles industries so china doesnt eat into it with their cheap labour. If anything Australia should be careful as aussies have a habit of buying cheap and not good.
FYI Hyundai is Korean not chinese.
Australian for Chinese manufacturers is like a land full of sheeps. They won’t bother before they conquer EU and US. After them, OZ will surrender within seconds. Just watch after say five years… OZ still make nothing like now and still laughing at some other countries they at least make somthing..Pathetic!!
Spot on, Binladen.