Would you buy a car thats made in China? Do people in America have attitudes against Chinese products? I work with Chinese products in Europe, we imports heavy machines (excavators and forklifts), and their quality is surprisingly good, and the Chinese manufactures are becoming smarter, they have realized the meaning of quality, after sale and branding. I believe in 5 years people will treat Chinese products as they treat South Korean products now (which is cheap and relatively good quality). What do you think?
Ummm....Chinese products don't have a very good reputation right now given all the news of late. Better to buy Japanese
And not to mention that one toy where you spray little beads together and that spray contained the same formula as some date rape drugs. None of these toys nor toothpaste have affected me thus far.. but it seems like every other week they're coming up with new Chinese products recalls.
I'll buy Chinese food and cheap stuff. need to wait for cars and big ticket items to catch up in quality control.
Just use google. The chinese cars are so unsafe you can watch videos where the test guys at the crash facilities almost fall over laughing after watching how horribly they perform.
Remember how Japanese cars used to be considered junk? How Korean cars were considered bad quality? Well, looks like they all passed the American made cars in quality. I wonder when will the Chinese cars do that, 10 years? 15 years?
Chinese cars are complete crap right now. Who knows when, or if, they'll ever improve. I have my doubts that they ever will...China just is too "regulation-less" when it comes to trying to make something on the cheap.
Weird thing is, even Chinese people don't really buy Chinese cars. Foreign car brands dominate the Chinese market right now. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can clear this up. But from what I hear, the Chinese government doesn't seem to place a major emphasis on domestic cars. Chinese cars suck because the companies don't have the capital to compete with import brand. So most cars models in China foreign, like Hundai, Honda, Volkswagon, and Buick.
There's no OSHA, no EPA , no Autoworkers union, few child labor laws, no copyright protection, an artificial value on the currency, no freedom of information so the only public accountability is the occasional show trial where they decide to execute the fall guy. Chinese capitalist make the American Robber Barons look almost palatable. You know what they need in China? A people's revolution. I like cheap crap as much as the next guy but one thing I don't want cheap is the 4000 lbs of steel I go hurtling down the highway in at 70 mph . And I don't want that guy coming at me at 70 in one either. (off to the D&D we go!)
a car? not at the moment. people used to think japanese and korean cars were junk, and they were until very recently. ill buy a chinese car when the quality catches up.
Chinese products have to pay their dues and build credibility through solid, trusted products and name brands. For decades, it's been where you get cheap products because of labor costs, etc. Every cheap little -whatever- you get at the dollar store is from China. Japan had to go through the same thing. Korea had to and is still going through it to some extent with Hyndai. So there may be good quality stuff coming out of China, but there's a stigma that needs to be overcome.
I've had a couple of friends buy Chinese motorcycles, Suzuki look-alikes, and they both ended up saying that they wasted their money. They bought them because they were really cheap (like $2200 new), but they were so unreliable that they ended up scrapping them. One of them's motor siezed up with less than 1000 miles. He tried to get parts to fix it, but because the company changed parts so often, nothing was standardized, everything had to be ordered, and it usually didn't work when he got it. If the Chinese automakers work really, really hard and get good guidance, they'll be good enough for the US market in 20 years. But right now, they aren't good enough, and they're going in the wrong direction.
I'm Chinese and I would not buy anything with a Chinese brand on it. We're some of the biggest crooks out there. The lack of regulation and oversight on the safety of products is disgustingly high.
Which American maker is contracting Chery to make its line of subcompacts? They're on the way. Personally, I'm extremely conservative when it comes to car brands. Outside of trucks, I steer clear of American. I try to stay within the Honda/Lexus and Volvo lines. And I'm keeping an eye on Volvo - if their quality gets compromised, forget it. I'm not interested in the Benz and Beemer premiums. I doubt I'd buy Chinese cars, just like I wouldn't buy Kia. But I will try not to be closed minded about it. Evan
