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Chinese Autos coming to U.S.
If you do a google search for Chinese Chery, it suggests...
Chinese Cherry....hmmmm I thought. What could that be? So I clicked. This is what I got. Whew! That was close. Chinese cars headed for U.S. Visionary, China's Chery plan to import cars priced 30% less than comparable models. January 3, 2005: 12:12 PM EST NEW YORK (CNN) - A U.S.-based company plans to sell cars manufactured in China at American dealerships beginning in 2007. Visionary Vehicles has partnered with Chinese automobile company Chery in efforts to create and import high-quality, stylish cars priced 30 percent lower than comparable models currently on sale in the United States
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Well, just so long as they use sesame oil. AND I want a choice of wonton or egg drop soup no less, these places are getting cheap.
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I smell a Yugo
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Oh you mean car...not women.....
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They did mention the Chinese is going to export their cars to the US in The World's Greatest Auto Shows Bejing edition on Speed Channel recently. They intend to fill the gap where the Koreans left off in the low end car market, now that the Koreans are making inroads to compete with the Japanese.
I would think the built quality will pretty much like when the Koreans first started. If the Chinese learn from the Koreans and Japanese mistakes, they may not repeat the Yugo episode.
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That thing was an early term miscarriage somebody tried to bring to term in their back pocket.
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The Chery is being imported by none other than Malcolm Bricklin. In addition to swindling the Canadian government and New Brunswick out of several million on the promises of the gull winged SV-1, Bricklin also brought the first Subarus to this country in 1967. In the late 70's he began to import Fiat autos (the Fiat Spider 2000 was renamed the Pininfarina and the Fiat X-1/9 became the Bertone) to the US after Fiat pulled out of the US market and in 1985, after the Fiats still didn't sell well in the US, he started importing another low priced car similar to the original Subarus: that prime example of engineering prowess, the Yugo. Fortunately, Bricklin stopped importing them in early 1989.
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Sort of like the Yugo....they wore out fast but rusted out even faster.
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ha, that's funny because I saw a Chino truck last night and wondered what the heck it was. I think it is Japanese unlike the name suggests but i haven't found anything on such an animal...
I bet you'll be able to pick up a Chery at sprawl*mart before too long... Last edited by mzsmbs; 01-04-2005 at 01:41 PM. |
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I just came back from Italy where Fiats are everywhere and seemed to be pretty decent machines. I was surprised.
Of course, there's no support at all for them here.
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Not quite. Yugo America went bankrupt in '89. Once out of bankruptcy, Yugo's were still sold here in the US with a limited dealership market untill we blew the plant up in '93. Every once in a blue moon, you'll see a fuel injected Yugo come across Ebay. I've even seen two automatic transmission models, and a couple of cabrio's. Believe it or not, the Yugo GV Cabrio fetches a nearly $10,000 price tag in the collectors market. |
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http://www.globes.co.il/DocsEn/did=801536.htm
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Watch Walmart get into the car biz. Hell 10% of everything imported from China goes to Walmart anyway, what's another 1-2%.
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