[lbryce]

That's because you need to buy the car first, to find out it's a lemon. GM's products have jut only recently been introduced to China's car market. GM having produced inherently obsolescent products for decades in the US gives us the dubious luxury of knowing which cars to avoid buying.
In the heyday of American economic, manufacturing prowess, it was once a common refrain that What's good for America is good for General Motors and visa versa.
Today, it's more like, GM's Fate is Detroit's Destiny.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I guess the Chinese do not realize how crappy a car the Buick is.

Frankly, I would rather have my grandfather’s Buick. That car was reliable. The current ones are not so reliable unless you are measuring how you can rely on them to break down.

[Responsibility2nd]

Buick Sells Four Times As Many Cars In China As In U.S

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That’s great. Yessiree.

The next time GM needs a government buyout - let the Chinese handle it.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

We send them our crappy cars as revenge for them sending us their crappy.... everything.

[FAA]

The Chinese have had and continue to have some strange affinity for Buick and I have no idea where it comes from. The only thing that kept Buick alive when Pontiac, Saturn, and, Hummer were all axe was its success in China. They’ve been selling like this over there for years now.

Apparently China’s last emperor owned Buicks and it somehow achieved a oversized reputation for luxury as a result. The Chinese look at them like affordable MBs.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've visited China twice in the last couple of years...both times focusing on the region that's within a 100 mile radius of Hong Kong with Shenzhen and Guangzhou being the two major cities I visited.I can attest to the fact that Buicks are surprisingly common on the streets of those cities.

[Carriage Hill]

“...some automakers, like Volvo, are even owned by Chinese firms.”

Really? Somehow, I missed that one. I remember Jaguar and Land Rover going to India’s Tata Motors, but Volvo to the Chi-Comms? Bummer.

[FreedomGuru]

The Chinese bought more Buicks because the Chinese have more jobs and more money than the USA.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Can they even pronounce Alero?

[nascarnation]

China passed the US in new car sales in 2009 and is pulling away fast.

For 2013:

China 22m
US 15.6m

Warren Buffet’s BYD plans to start imports to the US in 2015.
http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/1399934/byd-plans-launch-us-market-next-year

[upsdriver]

I was in China earlier this year. Buicks were quite common. I believe they have a factory in Shanghai. I was impressed with the quality of many of the cars there. Way different than what I expected.

[sushiman]

I'll take this : 1957 Buick Roadmaster

[driftdiver]

By chinese standards the buick is built pretty well.

[factoryrat]

GM has been wanting to build all of their vehicles in china since at least the late 90’s. The only thing stopping them was the tier suppliers who wouldn’t jump on board, and move to china. It took a bankruptcy, and a shakeout of the supplier chain to make the dream a reality, with the help of their US government cronies of course. Ford and Chrysler moved operations to mexico and canada a long time ago, so GM needed an edge in the market, and jumping on the china bandwagon was just the answer.

[anton]

That’s because in China they don’t know “Buick” means to puke or vomit.

Yet.

[bmwcyle]

GM let America down by siding with Obama and the Unions. Sales in America may never recover.

[James C. Bennett]

LOL, Buick and its fake plastic vents on the hood. It’s a shame.

[Baladas]

This reminds me of all those Japanese cars sold in the US during the 1980s, except now, we’re doing the exporting.