are you one of them to complain korean car are junk 8 yrs ago?
Comment by okano, posted on October11 at 7:09 pm

Perhaps Chery will get the hang of building cars around the time you get a hang of English.

Big Deal.

Actually, Okano, if you know the Japanese culture, they are incredibly dedicated to their product development. They are good at improving their cars, or even technology used in rivals product.

Koreans “dislikes” Japanese on the national level, and they are very patriotic. So naturally, they don’t want to be #2 in everything. Both countries industrialized much earlier than communist China. It was a matter of time before the Koreans would learn enough about making cars to catch up with their neighbors. First Hyundai was the Excel in the mid-80s (MUCH older than what you claimed “8 years ago”) and even Toyota was trying to establish themselves here. 8 years ago would be 1999, and Korean cars have improved, good enough for Ford to source two generations to rebadge as the Fiesta and Aspire. So acutally I was not a doubter 8 years ago. If you are talking about 20 years, maybe, and I am sure you were too if you were born already.

Chinese, on the other hand, has huge problem with quality control. If you have been to China, you will know copyright privacy, scams, fakes, etc are out of control there. Right now, people will do everything to make a buck and “get-rich-fast!” They don’t care about product liability, food safety, quality control either, let alone having the mind set to compete with the meticulous Japanese and Korean car companies outside of China. So I doubt they will make the safety cut here anytime soon.

On a side note, America is now seeing problem in Chinese manufactured goods. That is not news to people in Asia, such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. You think poison toothpaste and lead based paint is bad, have you heard of fake egg? They look like egg, taste like egg, but they are anything but egg, and they don’t care if you eat it and die either.

No, LLN is less than 2 years old.

are you one of them to complain korean car are junk 8 yrs ago?
Comment by okano, posted on October11 at 7:09 pm

Actually I complain Korean cars are crap today. But that is only based on personal observation of kids I know with Kias and Hyundais that are constantly in the shop. Who cares if they have 10 year warranties when they are driving a rental most of the time – at their expense. My kids will never drive one for that reason.

But that is neither here nor there since this is an article about a Chinese manufacturer. One that cant pass less stringent safety tests to get into markets like India so seeing one in the US will take some time.

are you one of them to complain korean car are junk 8 yrs ago?

um… you think china will catch up in time shorter than japan?

um… you know the answer

The bad part is the poor engineering. It leads to a crumple zone that consists of the entire car which makes them unsafe (read: deadly).

I bet the paint will look amazing, resist chips and last forever because it will be hard lead based paint not conforming to any environmental standards. Most cars today have paint problems like orange peel because the stringent environmental standards force the process and paints to be sacrificed for environmental safety. But not in China.

It definitely looks like a G6 ripoff, with a little Solara mixed it dimensionally.