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Chinese car to arrive in 2008 for $10k

03/16/2006, 1:06 PM

By admin

Chinese automaker Geely has confirmed it will bring its first car to the United States in the fall of 2008. According to Automotive News, John Harmer, COO of Geely USA, says the car will retail for $10,000.

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03/16, 1:40 PM

posted by:

chas williams

Here it comes.

03/16, 2:04 PM

posted by:

KissMyX

werent the chinese cars marked as ‘death on wheels’?

03/16, 2:41 PM

posted by:

Andre Neves

Please don’t.

03/16, 2:44 PM

posted by:

Andre Neves

And under the car “Made in china 2008″ will be engraved.

03/16, 2:49 PM

posted by:

Madcapp

Wal-Mart is the perfect place to sell this type of car. They could cross-market it with an order of General Tso’s Chicken.

03/16, 3:57 PM

posted by:

manny

andre, engraving is expensive… itll just be a big gold sticker…

03/16, 4:20 PM

posted by:

John

lol

03/16, 6:02 PM

posted by:

Andre Neves

lol manny, that’s exactly what I was gonna say before I posted!

03/16, 8:08 PM

posted by:

Tim

Finally, a new car that I can actually afford.

03/16, 9:49 PM

posted by:

J

to be fair, everyone has to start at some point.. once upon a time, when a little japanese company called toyota brought thier tiny beer can cars to america, everyone got a good laugh…. but whos laughing now…

03/16, 11:12 PM

posted by:

MJ

overpriced pos….it really is.

03/16, 11:16 PM

posted by:

StanFord

The begining of the race to the bottom.

Henry Ford (Sr.) help us..

Who in the west (even Korea) can complete against communist controlled forced labor built cars coming from factories with no environmental standards on the production end. We’d better take this one very seriously as what Madcapp said about WalMart isn’t far from the truth…

03/16, 11:32 PM

posted by:

manny

but j, people didnt really stop laughing until the 80s… which means ill be laughing at chinece cars till i’m like 55, which is fine by me…

03/16, 11:34 PM

posted by:

WHUT

Let’s embrace yet another car company that pays no duty, tarriffs or taxation for bringing product into the US all in the name of “fair trade”, which is only fair to every other country but the US. Then let’s buy a whole bunch of them and let them ship all the profits back to their country to build and develop said countries infrastructure of manufacturing and technology. Thanks again, Slick Willy!

03/17, 12:16 AM

posted by:

jim sanders

WHUT.. that’s called world trade… that’s exactly how the world is made to work… the US get rich by selling products and services to other countries, and so do other countries. Countries lift themselves out of third world poverty by exporting; so did the US when it was poor. You don’t want any other country to have a modernized infrastructure? Nobody but the US should be modernized?

03/17, 1:21 AM

posted by:

Samuel Chen

WHUT, US always “fair trade” with its guns.

By the way, I like American systems such as legislation and administration. They are fair and effective.

And you should know that there was a dynasty called Tang in China. US today is not good enough relative to Tang. But Tang subverted.

There is a saying in China: No flower keeps sweet smelled for hundred days.

So I say, all the world should develop together.

03/17, 1:27 AM

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03/17, 1:44 AM

posted by:

Alan

i’m really concerned about how people use this as a veiled means to legitimize what is quite simply xenophobia.

03/17, 3:01 AM

posted by:

KissMyX

“fair trade” is something that both China and the US know very little of :)

03/17, 11:07 AM

posted by:

Andre Neves

I used to drink Tang when I was a boy

03/17, 11:45 AM

posted by:

中国龙

中国�利,加油��

03/17, 3:32 PM

posted by:

JoJohn

The problem with “fair trade” between the US and China is that the Chinese Yuan is kept artificially low to the dollar (they estimate it is only worth 75% of what it should be). Japan, Korea, and pretty much every other Asian industrialized nation does the same (if I were president it would be counter tariffs across the board based on the amount the currencies are manipulated – we in the US get played for suckers).

03/17, 4:36 PM

posted by:

JoJohn

The car itself doesn’t look too bad, although it borrows from the Mercedes – it sort of look like a cross between a mercedes and a 2000 Jetta, at least from this angle, didn’t BMW help with the design?

03/17, 5:59 PM

posted by:

Sean

I dont really care if this crap comes over because if anybody crashes into me with it they will die. Just like how Euro crash ratings gave that Chinese SUV 0/5 stars on safety.

03/19, 1:09 AM

posted by:

Cyx

I heard that Chinese carmaker “Chery” will develop a elegant sports car in the 2008,how I wish!Chinese aren’t lack of capacity to develop a nice car,because this country is able to make a spaceship that many countries cannot be done.

03/23, 3:19 AM

posted by:

jackie

Actually they just announced it iwll be starting at 7500$!!!…much cheaper than 10K…and they are nice..but watch out for chery and Lifan..they are coming b4 geely to US perhaps…for more info look at http://www.chinacarforums.com

jackie
chinacarforums.com

 
 
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