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If you thought that your Kia was priced low, wait 'til you see the prices planned for these imports!
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Chery, Shuanghuan, Geely, Oriental Son, Windcloud, Flagcloud, Tiggo, Daewoo, Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM, Kia, Nissan, cheap cars, discount cars, cheap imports, free trade, Sino-US relations, money, UN
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China is laying plans at this very moment to begin shipment of passenger vehicles to the North American market by mid 2007. Chinese automobile manufacturer, Chery, yes read that again ... the company sound strangely like Chevy, is looking at bringing not only one, but a whole fleet of low cost production vehicles to our shores. Do not think for even my mothers Japanese Korean automakers will be immune from this flood of low Cars of long-awaited war with the US - at one time expectation to begin with a Red Army attack on Taiwan - may be fought on an economic front instead.
Chery, a state-owned car producer formed in China bought a number of cars in the QQ - a compact car strangely similar to the Daewoo Spark [GM 'Korean division], as well as several sedans and a compact SUV. Indeed, recent charges made by Toyota, GM, and Honda have all alleged that Chery mimicked or outright stole designs from at least one of each automaker's vehicles including the Honda CR-V. For the record, the Toyota case was rejected , Honda is still trying to work out a solution with their case, and GM recently dropped its to the Chinese automaker agreed not to sell their cars in the US under the Chery name which GM has stated is too close to the Chevy name. courts have also ruled that the Daewoo Spark design was not registered in China, so GM dropped its suit.
And present singles: the Oriental Son, the Flagcloud, and the Windcloud. Recently, Chery unveiled a newly designed crossover vehicle along the As you might guess the Chery crossover, if equipped similarly to the Pacifica, could be priced some ten thousand dollars <i> less </ i> than the Chrysler model.
Three thousand dollars less than </ u> than </ u> than </ u> than </ u> than the next lowest priced car, the Chevy Aveo [from GM's Daewoo unit, naturally]. Of course, this particular pricing strategy has raised all sorts of alarms within the automobile industry, chiefly how to counter a flood of low cost cars invading the US market . Still, it only took Hyundai less than one decade to begin to produce cars which is consistently matched the quality levels. So, it could be just a matter of a few years before Chinese cars receive the positive press now given to many other Asian automake rs, resulting in a sharp surge in sales.
While the Cherry dealer network within the dealer network is expected to be in place development Summer 2007 when the first Chinese vehicles arrive. Oh, I can not expect that whatever it is planned over the ensuing years and the the US, you can expect it that whatever name selected cars will impact this way many Americans buy their cars from that point forward. by the way, two other Chinese automakers - Shuanghuan Automobile Manufacturing, LTD and Geely Automotive - are also expected to export cars to the North American market soon after Chery makes its debut.
I, for one, shudder to think just how all this this might unfold.
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