There is few review about Chinese cars from a US view. I thaught that for a premiere, they made something great, far from the usual “Chinese cars are rubbish” we just hear all the time in western countries.
So it’s a disapointement to me to discover that this great article wasn’t actually written by Winding Roards.

You mean your Winding Road copied that article from China daily ?

I can give you the link to the original article if you want (from China daily) and btw most of the news source copy article from each other, if you read news more often you will see, I can give you a lot of websites that copy this article. And if you come here just to be one liner and leave your blog URL and to troll then I suggest you not to come here.

Perhaps they syndicated it, although its not as if China Daily doesnt borrow articles now and again.

It has nothing to do with the culture really, as you can see developing countries tend to manufacture low end low quality goods, mass produce things to grow, as the country get better and more developed, the people’s view of quality also starts to develop with it or can you name one developing country that can produce quality goods ?
And talking of culture I think you still have a lot more to learn about Japanese and Chinese culture (as phillip woon said), so culture is kinda out of the question here.

One more thing here for you to think about , Toyota auto department was established in 1933 and Toyota managed to reach its height in the 1970s, now we have something to think about.
Thanks for reading.

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If the Chinese ever figure out quality = Result of work efforts/total costs, then they might just crack the intl. markets.

I believe that the Chinese car makers biggest problem now is recruiting capable managers at every level of the company chain to oversee quality production. Design work can always be outsourced, but quality cannot be outsourced, nor can it be an afterthought.

I agree with your other statement however, I believe that Chery/Geely will become major players in the developing world and various emerging markets but to tap into Western Europe, Japan, and North America its going to be a long uphill battle. These markets are too well established, any new brand will be like Christians being thrown to lions in Roman times. I believe SAIC, FAW, and NAC MG may crack Western markets with their own brand of cars (which admittedly are just existing cars with their own designs) but they will need to spend a lot of money doing it. Obviously the only way to go for them is to buy an existing brand (ala NAC) and rework it into a world player.

But of course, in recent years the whole ‘China’ brand has been tarnished through various incompetent actions of mainland companies, sometimes I wonder if it would be easier to stop the Titanic from sinking than reverse the negative publicity trend about Chinese goods.

I will stop here, I am clearly blabbering.