Greenwich-based Miller Motorcars is planning to sell Chinese-made luxury cars next year alongside the Aston Martins, Ferraris and Rolls-Royces it sells now, according to the Connecticut Post. The cars — made by Chery Automobile of China and imported by Malcolm Bricklin’s Visionary Vehicles — will sell for about $20,000. Miller is the importer for the Fairfield County and Westchester County, N.Y., markets. One model the dealers are looking at selling in Fairfield is the M14, a Chery with a hardtop retractable roof. The $20,000 roadster will compete with the $47,000 Mercedes SLK, according to Bricklin. Malcolm Bricklin introduced America to Japan’s Subaru in 1965. Will Chinese cars catch on in America like Japanese cars did? Time will tell…
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03/21, 3:25 PM
posted by:
gsh
if they can be first to introduce a cheap raodster with retractable hardtop roof they will sell….and force others to reduce price (read: volvo)…
03/21, 3:40 PM
posted by:
Angel Rivera
quality will be the issue… if they reliability is o.k. they’ll sell like hotcakes. If they’re crap, I won’t walk near them.
03/21, 6:44 PM
posted by:
Dallas
the new volkwagen eos hardtop convertible will be less than 25 thousand. Personally, I’d rather have a german made car than a chinese made one, and pay another 5 grand…
03/21, 9:20 PM
posted by:
Nuno
Funny, I live in Westchester, yet I have never heard of the guy or his work.
03/21, 9:33 PM
posted by:
Chad
Come on, you don’t trust your tools that are made in China, the toys always break first that are Made In China, so what makes you think that cars with the gold sticker “Made in China” are going to be any good? Seriously, the only reason they are so cheap is because they don’t have the same US costs and they pay their workers in rice cakes.
03/21, 9:48 PM
posted by:
manny
nuno… youve heard of his work, you just dont know it…
bricklin was the guy who started importing subarus to the US…
however, he also was the dude to import yugos to the US…
with the current quality of chinese cars, i think visionary may follow the latter…
03/21, 11:54 PM
posted by:
lars ulrich
this should be interesting
03/22, 6:06 AM
posted by:
Shut Up
Chad: Everything you buy is made in China. Electronic equipment, clothes etc. Open your eyes.
03/22, 4:08 PM
posted by:
Adam
Chad, I would be willing to bet that your computer that you posted that ignorant comment on was also made in China, or at least a majority of its parts.
03/22, 4:48 PM
posted by:
Chad
Sorry for all of you, but I watch what I buy and spend the extra money to get Made in the USA stuff. Atleast if I buy a american car, even alot of the work is overseas the money stays in the US and I’m not killing off another US employee by skipping out on charges foreign automakers don’t have to worry about. And lets not forget the amazing Bricklin SV-1 that was his first endeavor that failed after a few years.
04/04, 2:48 PM
posted by:
nick c
not to mention an artice I read before showed how cherry reverse engineered several american and japanese cars and copied the designs for them…. ie, a headlight from I THINK it was the cavalier would literally bolt into the cherry car, and things like that. I’ll never buy one, and if I ever see one, I’ll key it.
04/25, 11:34 PM
posted by:
Niels
No question about it. These cars will flop. A lot more is made in China than what should be made there. It’s all junk. They’re paid so little they don’t focus on quality. If everybody knew the man responsible for bringing these rice grinders to America was the same man who introduced us to the Yugo in the 1980s, NOBODY will buy it. I agree with Nick on this one. If I ever see one, I’ll just key it, like I have the instinct to with Priuses. China’s only making money because companies move there to pay less to employees. It’s the Mexico of Asia, and anything and everything emerging from China is bound to be kicked, thrown, beaten, or laughed out of the United States. Look at the press release brochure for this car. There’s more spelling and grammar errors than a report on the periodic table of elements written by a kindergartner. While this isn’t a deciding factor in the car’s success [or should I say failure?], who the hell is going to buy a car from a company that at least SOUNDS Chinese?