Posted on 05/16/2004 8:03:00 AM PDT by Dog Gone
Sound familiar?
Etc., etc., etc.
I'm not willing to agree that America is fascist with the amount of oversight we impose over business. We allowed the dotcom boom and bust. We allowed an Enron to flourish and fail. It's a matter of degree of control, and we're remarkably less fascist than we were before Ronald Reagan began deregulation.
About ten years ago the Honda Marysville Ohio plant was starting to manufacture right hand drive Accords. These were being sent to Japan. Before that, in the 1980's the Japanese did not look to kindly at American made products - even industrial equipment made in Japan would have some US component content if it was being shipped to the US.
To me buying a Mainland Chinese car is the same as helping to pay for a Mainland Chinese ICBM targeted at St. Paul, Minnesota - I live four miles from MSP.
Damn. When do they work?
No way. No how. Not ever.
I'd buy a Renault first, and that's not too likely.
Chinese cars will do very good and you better be prepared and serious about them, they are coming to US and will do well just like toyota and honda making GM and ford bankrupt lol!
check http://www.chinacarforums.com for pics and info
My husband was at a "Farm Show" recently where they had some Chinese tractors. Mind you, these weren't large commercial ag tractors; more like landscaping tractors; they were being shown by a new distributor here in Iowa.
He came home laughing hysterically about these tractors, as they were cheaply made, looked like they had been painted with spray paint...general pieces of crap.
The next day, our local rag had an article about these tractors in which they asked a John Deere exec for his take. He (among the quality issues) casually dropped the fact that the company has no liability insurance.
They asked the distributor for his comment; he said that the manufacturer is "working on it."
Level playing field? Why is this company even allowed to export tractors to the U.S. when they have no liability insurance?
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