Posted on 05/16/2004 8:03:00 AM PDT by Dog Gone
ROFL, that is truly horrid.
I'd need to buy one for each foot!
When you think you are buying an American-made car, you are not. Most cars made in the US have a large number of parts made elsewhere, including Commie China. I saw a list of such parts in a car dealership showing all the brands and the high percentage of foreign-made parts in each model and all US manufacturers were on the list.
Even Harley is doing this. And then when the quality suffers (because using the cheapo china stuff) people assumed it suffered because made in america.
They also come with a spare bicycle.
LOL!
Like a charming immigrant still learning the culture, the Web site for Geely USA offers some delightful car descriptions.
That's just so touching leftist.
yup!
The PRC is now entering the game the same way. In 10 years they will probably be making top of the line cars for the American market. They are going to eat our lunch and use our business processes, tools, and technology to do it.
Wanna bet the safety and environmental rules are relaxed?
I can see DiFi pushing relaxing the Kalistan air pollution requirements so he hubby's commie chines bidiness connections are kept happy...
Amen! Screw the unions. They're American sellouts.
They and others have been doing that here in California for yrs...not just used cars but RV's too.
perhaps a metallurgist lurks, and can shed more light than i can, but im pretty sure that the alloys used in jap engines (toy & honda at least) are superior, and are the main contributor to those models' well known reliability. detroit has pretty much caught up with the design....they had to....but they're still using poorer, lesser quality materials. (must be all the labor, enviro, work comp, & legal costs)
design is one thing, wonder where in the spectrum the commiemobiles' alloys are.
It's my contention that corporate bean counters and engineers have more to do with the perception that our cars are of a quality inferior to that of Japanese vehicles than union autoworkers do.
IMO, most American cars are deliberately designed to start falling apart at a time certain. They would fall apart even if they were being assembled by Japanese autoworkers.
Do you agree or disagree?
I know planned obs used to be a real thing. I learned about this in highschool history class. Like appliances, vaccums, etc. used to last forever. So, no repeat business. Then the companies caught on and . . .
But I think with cars its a combo of using the cheapest parts they can get by with.
I know you are talking about China. But in a lot of ways, this is true in the US, maybe to a lesser degree, or maybe not. I think the corporate tax rate exceeds 30 percent which makes our govt. a "partner" too.
Did it come equipped with the Mexican flag hanging off the rear-view mirror?
Bada Bing!!!
30% a partner or an albatros :-)
A couple of years ago I was cussing some screws I was using because the head was stripping on every one of them. Yep, made in China. If they don't use better quality hardware on theirs cars they will fall apart.
If their first run of cars is junk they won't get a second chance to make a first impression.
You can look back before the Japanese cars came here and find quality made Japanese products like camera's for example...Can you point out ONE "top of the line" quality made Chinese product made today?
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