Budget cars en route from China

[charrison]

Their names are Solo, Deer, Leopard, Safe and Sing, and thousands of them are on a boat headed this way.

U.S. car buyers will soon have a new option: very-low-priced Chinese cars, trucks and SUVs.

Four Houston partners will be exclusive dealers for two major manufacturers of Chinese cars for the entire state of Texas, with the first dealership scheduled to open in the city this summer.

China Motors of Texas will import automobiles made by Geely and trucks and SUVs made by Great Wall, China's leading manufacturer of such vehicles.

Cars will sell in the range of $7,000 to $11,000.

The manufacturers and dealers are hoping Americans will embrace these new import brands like they did the Toyota ? as opposed to, say, the Yugo, a Yugoslavian import that came to the United States in 1985 with high hopes but flopped so badly it became the butt of jokes.

Auto industry observers say that any consumer love affair with these Chinese products will not develop overnight, no matter how good the vehicles are

It will be interesting to see if these turn out to be yugos....

 

[heartsurgeon]

pics?

i googled and couldn't come up with any..

 

[Perknose]

I can't wait for the auto mag reviews, a la Yugo:

"If you have only $X,000 (price of a Yugo) to spend, we recommend you go buy a quality used car intstead."

 

[Talon]

The Geely Leopard is produced as the Beauty Leopard. This site has a bit of information and some small photos. There is a short review of the company on this site. I can't say I'm impressed with them.

 

[BarneyFife]

Stuff made in China is usually low quality. You're better off buying a bike.

 

[Martin]

I guess we'll see how far people's apetite for low priced sh!t goes. Jugding by walmart, this cars may do very well.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Stuff made in China is usually low quality. You're better off buying a bike.

All bikes are made in china. Can't win. Sure they still make some Cannondale and Trek frames here but all the money parts are from red china. Soon every car will be built in china. heard big 3 or 2 is building plants there now.

 

[Dissipate]

Hey, if they undercut the current competition, I'm all for it. Even if they are low quality there are a lot of poor people, especially hispanics and blacks who might be in the market for these things.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Stuff made in China is usually low quality. You're better off buying a bike.

All bikes are made in china. Can't win. Sure they still make some Cannondale and Trek frames here but all the money parts are from red china. Soon every car will be built in china. heard big 3 or 2 is building plants there now.

Yes, they want to be able to make cars to sell to the chinese in china...

 

[magomago]

well, if they are good quality and cheap...I won't complain

but if its horrible quality, I'm not going to buy it....just like I would not buy an American car

 

[Wag]

They selling this at Wal-Mart?

 

[Siddhartha]

Can you imagine what is going to happen to the price of oil once 30% of China starts driving? Time to buy Oil stocks.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
Can you imagine what is going to happen to the price of oil once 30% of China starts driving? Time to buy Oil stocks.

Actually time to invest in whatever is going to replace oil

 

[RabidMongoose]

Will these be disposable?

 

[ShinX]

I wonder if the cars in China are so low quality that the ppl rather ride bikes lol (yes i kno the traffic in China is bad so dont think about slamming)

 

[jagec]

man, when I get my own house I'm going to start collecting unusual cars...the Yugo and these Chinese cars will def. be among them.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
Can you imagine what is going to happen to the price of oil once 30% of China starts driving? Time to buy Oil stocks.

That is going to happen very quickly. They are already experiencing sh0ortages for fuel because they don't have enough filling stations to handle the demand. They are already seeing traffic jams and increases in traffic fatalities.

Have you seen the pickups and delivery vans? I'm sure these will be very big hits here.

$11,000, Goodbye GM, Ford and Dodge overnight.

 

[ShinX]

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[charrison]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
Can you imagine what is going to happen to the price of oil once 30% of China starts driving? Time to buy Oil stocks.

That is going to happen very quickly. They are already experiencing sh0ortages for fuel because they don't have enough filling stations to handle the demand. They are already seeing traffic jams and increases in traffic fatalities.

Have you seen the pickups and delivery vans? I'm sure these will be very big hits here.

$11,000, Goodbye GM, Ford and Dodge overnight.

Got links to the trucks?

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
Can you imagine what is going to happen to the price of oil once 30% of China starts driving? Time to buy Oil stocks.

That is going to happen very quickly. They are already experiencing sh0ortages for fuel because they don't have enough filling stations to handle the demand. They are already seeing traffic jams and increases in traffic fatalities.

Have you seen the pickups and delivery vans? I'm sure these will be very big hits here.

$11,000, Goodbye GM, Ford and Dodge overnight.

Got links to the trucks?

Geely.com

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
Can you imagine what is going to happen to the price of oil once 30% of China starts driving? Time to buy Oil stocks.

That is going to happen very quickly. They are already experiencing sh0ortages for fuel because they don't have enough filling stations to handle the demand. They are already seeing traffic jams and increases in traffic fatalities.

Have you seen the pickups and delivery vans? I'm sure these will be very big hits here.

$11,000, Goodbye GM, Ford and Dodge overnight.

Got links to the trucks?

Geely.com

Looks like a standard light truck and a stadard light truck with a camper shell