Geely Comes to America!
"The Chinese are coming, The Chinese are coming!"
Geely revealed its plans to enter to US market sometime this Fall. (I think that's when)
Discuss the first wave of "Made in China" el cheapo automobiles here.
Geely revealed its plans to enter to US market sometime this Fall. (I think that's when)
Discuss the first wave of "Made in China" el cheapo automobiles here.
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Just like computers...
How were you able to see it? I was in Detroit and I didn't catch it. Granted, I was there for the public show. Did you go on one of the industry preview days, or did you have press credentials?
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Nah, they must have changed their mind about entering the N.A. car market and scaled back their efforts to prove they could make a better flower box than a Yugo at half the price instead.
And in the airport that article in the Detroit Free Press was just ripping Geely apart.
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Opposite results for some of the other transplants like Yugo, Fiat, Alfa and more recently Daewoo. Heck even Kia has a black cloud over its vehicles that they are even trying to shake.
If Geely believes that a similar approach to the market is a good one, and that falters will be forgiven over time, good luck to them... The current market is brutal, some of the most reliable products are coming from the current crop of car makers here in the U.S. and I HIGHLY doubt there will be many risk takers for these new Geely cars.
If they offer a brand new car at under $6000 my son might be a taker also depending on how cheap it is and how long the warranty is
Geely HAS no record at the moment. Wouldn't want to be a guinea pig no matter how cheap it is. Hey, it's your choice though.
i love kia. their cars today are amazing. more reliable than anything a US automaker offers. yes they are still trying to make end meet. they always have something about them that is a decade behind honda/toyota/nissan. but i thik the majority of people out they, if given a choice, would rather buy a kia/hyundai than a mitsubishi/suzuki/isuzu/subaru. kia/hundai beats all of them, and honestly, i think they might have surpassed nissan.
kia/hyundai are on the coat tails of honda & toyota, and good for them. i love the new rio5, the Rio Cinco was a better name, but whatcha gonna do? the Cinco had a horrible interior, and not the rio5 has a great interior (for its price) the only problem is the stupid black cladding lined above the bumpers, the cinco beats the new model in exterior styling just for that. and, i've read in several place that the new rio5 beats the new fit and versa, so more props out to kia.
yay.
from,
--Rob.
The more times I visit Malcolm Bricklin's Visionary Vehicles website, the more aggressive he gets in trying to get people to sign up and sell his cars.
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His reputation with the Yugo doesn't help either.
That hardtop convertible looks nice, especially if he can do it at the promised $19K starting price.
I wonder what happened to the few dealerships that signed on to sell the Chinese cars...
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/22/brilliance-bs6s-adac-crash-test-is-anything-b- ut/
P.S. When I here Tiger, I think GTO, and I wish the latest iteration had looked more like this tiger. It is cutting on the razor's edge.
-mike
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enjoy.
As for people buying the panda, if it is released into the US, they will.
The $4,000-$6,000 price range that is to be expected will mean that these cars will flood high school and college parking lots, not to mention metro areas.
As for the looks, the Smart Car has proven that a large amount of people don't care about looks.
People have tried comparing the Geely to the Yugo, but the big difference is that the Geely is made by a country that knows how to manufacture. The Yugo wasn't.
There were those who declared that Hyundai and Kia were doomed to failure in the US too. Look at them now.
Believe what you want, but if the Panda hits the market at $4-$6k, then I see it selling well, regardless of what one believes.
From an economic standpoint, if the vehicle sold for for around $4800, on a 48 month loan with high interest (8-9%), the payments would be just over $100/month. That would make this vehicle very appealing in a lot of people's eyes.