Let’s have ICE go outdated, and guess who’s leading that charge? Let’s see, is it the Americans? No!! It’s the Japanese, an ASIAN country. Yeah… let’s make ICE obsolete and put the final death blow to the GMs. GO JAPAN.

That will bruise the ego of “dumb prick” John.

“You dumb prick”, that statement sure lends to your credibility. Your ignorance about the orgin of the equpiment in your computer only demostrates your out of touch with the realities of global economics, just like 1c3d0g. Your computer may have several compenents engineered in and final assemly completed in the US, but absolutely most compnents are built outside the US, including China. I worked for a company that produces some of the most expensive, highly rated, and highly desireable notebook computers on the market and every last one of them was assembled in Shanghai.

I love your whole “let them build ICE cars and then the domestics switch up to electric and stick it to the Chinese”. Thats hilarious, becuase thats exactly whats happening to domestics right now.

You and the other ignorants here at LLN simply assume these particular Chinese built vehicles will have bad build quaility. How would you know that? Thats right, you don’t. Thats not to say I think they will be fantastic high quality vehicles. That would be doing the same thing as you, assuming something that I’m actually ignorant of. We won’t really know until production models show up. What we do know, if you bother to read up on the subject, is that VV has consulted established manufactuers for engineering and design. Off the cuff assumptions like yours is the same kind of attitude that the domestics had years ago and landed them in the trouble they are in now. Japanese cars? Korean cars? Dog **** tacos, nothing to worry about….

What I really see from the people who are unable to give Chinese made cars a fair evaluation is xenophobia and racism. Try a little objectivity.

I would never own a chinese car… ever. Certain things I’m okay with poor build quality. My mop, my shampoo bottle, and 90% of the crap in my house.

Stuff that must work… my car, my phone (designed in U.S.), my computer (designed, engineered, and manufactured in the U.S. for the most part you dumb pricks)… better be made in the U.S. or Germany.

Let the Chinese cars come to the market. Let the Chinese build a huge infrastructure for car manufacturing. Let the become the biggest auto manufacturers in the world….

Then, let Ford and GM restart the EV program. Watch as ICE cars become outdated. Watch as the government mandates that all new cars sold, other than heavy trucks (GM ‘n Ford bread n’ butter) are ZERO emission.

Then watch the Chinese economy and ego take a hit…

There’s a whole spectrum of buyers with all different price ranges and all different quality tastes.

RangeRoverBoy for president !! Go RangeRover. Go RangeRover. Go.

If anyone has any question as to why the price would be so cheap….it’s the difference between the US companies paying union workers $30-$80 an hour as apposed to the Chinese who pay $2 – $3 an hour. GM I believe has the longest average cycle time for manufacturing which I believe is somewhere around 30 hrs per vehicle, where Nissan has an average of 18-19 hrs per vehicle. A lower cycle time, at a lower cost per hour means extreme savings. Just make sure our trusty federal government doesn’t impose such a hefty tarriff that we lose all of those savings.

In case you don’t know it, many things are made in China or south east asia. And again, it allows us to buy things cheap. I would not like to spend double the money for a decent watch. And I dont’ think most Americans would either. So I guess you spend most of your day removing labels off the stuff you buy… whatever floats your boat.

You don’t trust hardly anything from China now? Do you live in an empty house? Have you taken inventory of all the Chinese made goods you own now? The computer your posting from is probably mostly from China. The Dell (American company) keyboard I’m using right now has a giant made in China sticker on it. Inexpensive does not always mean poor quality, just has expensive does not always mean excellent quality.

Look at the proposed model lineup of VV. Unlike the Yugo, these vehicles are not designed to simply sell simply on the fact they are the cheapest vehicle available. They will be the cheapest in segment due to the realities of the Chinese economy (cheap labor, less regulation, government support, etc.) This situation is not comparable to the Yugo rollout 20 years ago.