Hah. Chinese manufacturing has one goal, to make it cheaper. It begins and ends there. Safety, reliability, longevity, quality, even usability are not factors.
“Safety, reliability, longevity, quality, even usability are not factors”.
As another poster pointed out, this is exactly what was said about everything made in Japan, back in the 1950’s.
Then the Japanese imported AMERICAN EXPERTS to introduce Total Quality Management methods (in order to better sell to the American market) and the rest, as they say, is history.
Considering the number of Chinese young people attending universitites here in the U.S., I suspect the transformation of Chinese vehicles to meet the demands of the American marketplace will be remarkably fast.
As a business owner I can add; the simple calculation of the Chinese labor rate versus the American labor rate will be such a factor in the pricing of vehicles that this will potentially be a death blow to American car manufacturing.
The U.S. will probably remain the leader in technological innovation, however, but find a market for that innovation...in China.
Perhaps driving a “U.S. Government/Union Made” car will be a status symbol for some; sort of like folks driving a great big full-sized sedan back when compact cars first were introduced (people laughed at the small Ford car they introduced...can’t even remember the name anymore) and when Toyota introduced the Corolla into the U.S. everyone thought it was a joke (yes, I owned one; paid $56 a month for it for three years).
They once said that about Japanese cars........
And FWIW, look at the impact of the Korean vehicles Kia and Hyundai.............