Comments on: Chinese car buyers moving to smaller, more efficient vehicles

By: kool_aje

kool_aje — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:37:28 +0000

Why should you hate Chinese? It’s plain logic. Some people are just stuck on KKK mind-set. Shame on you.

By: Diel

Diel — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:42:50 +0000

I’ve got one acronym to say about this, WVO.
In other news, if your heading to the Fabulous Fords Forever show at Knott’s go toward the Sears parking lot near there to see a production Dodge Challenger SRT8 in silver with Michigan manufactures plates. Don’t know if its still there but it was when I left at around 1. I’m putting some pictures up on flickr if anyone wants to see em.

By: autonut

autonut — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:13:19 +0000

Veda, Surprisingly enough their roads are terrific and last year were practically empty outside of metropolises. Apparently commies are readying infrastructure for half a billion cars. Cities are congested, but they do have well developed rings around them. I even think that commies figured out that most of citizenry will never drive well due to peripheral blindness and build extra capacity on top of it.

Johnny, I could not find ANY bicycles not made in China even in the bike shops. Schwinns and Rosses are made their for long time and even performance bikes. Of course for 10K you can get Italian or German bike, but I am not racer. That $sum$ will buy books for my kids for one semester .

By: sharpie

sharpie — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:20:37 +0000

You know LLN, you make it sound like most Chinese drive huge full size trucks. In fact, most don’t! In the city, there are still a lot of bicycle riders. In rural area, motorcycle is the norm. If I saw any car at all, they are generally the VW Jetta class and some Toyota Vitz (Yaris as we know it on this side of the ocean). Those aren’t exactly huge cars, at least no where near the amount of full size trucks and SUVs in the U.S.

By: AMGoff

AMGoff — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:05:23 +0000

“At this point… if there was a motorcycle with a roof that I could ride year round in the rain and snow… I’d buy it.”

There is more or less… it’s called the “Carver One” and it’s built by those zany Dutch… it’s actually a pretty wicked machine. I don’t think they’re on sale in the US yet, but I’m sure you could pay to import one.

Anyway… a Honda Fit, you’ve got to be joking?? What’s the point? It gets what, 27/34mpg… and it will end up costing your life as well because you’ll end up driving off the road after falling asleep from overwhelming boredom. If you’re actually serious about getting something that sips fuel, why not get a late-model VW TDI… they’ll give you 31/40mpg and you might just have a little fun driving it as well. Hell… even a Mini Cooper 28/37 AND they ARE fun to drive… but a Honda Fit?

Please…

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:34:05 +0000

autonut: all bicycles sold at WalMart are made in China. And I’m going to throw one out there: there will come a day when WalMart will sell Chinese cars as well.

By: Veda

Veda — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:27:16 +0000

The new gen Fit seems like a very nice economical car, what’s not to like? If you’ve been to China you’d agree that micro/mini cars are the future. With many people riding on bicycles in the past, the only way their roads can fit cars is if they go with ultra small cars. Probably the same amount of pollution due to the volume though…

By: HemiRoadRunner

HemiRoadRunner — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:56:02 +0000

5.7??? It’s a crate 426. Who the hell would put a small block in a Road Runner?

By: autonut

autonut — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:51:55 +0000

All bicycles are build in China nowadays.
Well, 11 gallons will cost you $40 in a Fit, but you can travel over 400 miles on it. That’s what 5.7L Hemi will use from traffic light to traffic light by burning rubber.

By: HemiRoadRunner

HemiRoadRunner — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:35:47 +0000

What really pisses me off is on this story they show a picture of the chinese flag. Where’s my matches……….

By: HemiRoadRunner

HemiRoadRunner — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:54:13 +0000

They did, they were called rigshaws, like a carriage. Then we started buying all their crap and now they have more money than most working people from the sound of how many cool cars they are getting over there.

By: Madcapp

Madcapp — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:52:59 +0000

Build bicycles for the chinese. That’s pretty small and efficient.

By: Impulsive

Impulsive — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:47:39 +0000

‘mayer’, congrats on quality and humour.

By: HemiRoadRunner

HemiRoadRunner — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:38:05 +0000

My Road Runner is a hybrid, it burns gas AND rubber.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:33:44 +0000

And if you don’t know what a “reatrd” is, then you are a freakin retard.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:30:47 +0000

Raineman apparently thinks that if he puts 11 gallons into a Fit it will cost less than $40. He’s as big a dummass as the reatrd in that flick.

By: LaCaLover

LaCaLover — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:17:47 +0000

Wait for the 2009 model year Fit, it is way superior to the current model

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:14:08 +0000

At this point… if there was a motorcycle with a roof that I could ride year round in the rain and snow… I’d buy it.

By: LaCaLover

LaCaLover — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:59:32 +0000

I hate the chinese

By: Commodore

Commodore — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:36:43 +0000

Your comment RaineMan hinted at being an advertisement for a Fit or something

By: HemiRoadRunner

HemiRoadRunner — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:35:08 +0000

Maybe I should just strap a 4 banger to a shopping cart and called it the next generation Fit…..

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:26:27 +0000

Well… it was $40 to fill up my 11 gallon gas tank today. Maybe I need to go over to the Honda dealer on lunch and see about trading for a Fit… these small cars are kinda nice.