Are the Chinese players afraid of the Indian markets?
China Car Times often wonders why the Chinese automotive manufactures arent taking a more pro active role in tackling the Indian subcontinent, we know that Chery have made certain inroads into Pakistan, but India remains off limits in some ways to the Chinese marques.
Why?
The reasons why Chinese car makers should be in India are obvious – India is a massive country, with a similar population size to China, the number of people who can afford to buy a car in India is growing day by day, just as it is in China. The market for mini cars to SUVs and pick up trucks is ready to grow at an extortionate rate over the next five years, as is the market for small Toyota Coaster type coaches, Chinas Chang’an motors makes such coaches. The American consulting company, Keystone, (a subsidary of Laselle) believes that by 2030, India will be the worlds third largest auto market after the US and China (althouh, China will most probably replace the US as no 1 by 2030)
Lack of Customers?
Maybe its a lack of a market for cars in India that keeps Chinese players away from India, but then again, maybe not. Although in some places it seems there are as little as 32 cars per 1000 people, and as high as 82 cars per 1000 people, the scope for car sales is just as big as China.
Who will win the race to the sub continent?
It seems that Chery are leading the way into the Indian subcontinent with their entry into the subcompact market, early news reports say that Chery were going to enter the Indian market with their QQ mini car, priced at 2.5 Lakh to 3.5 Lakh. The recent Tata Nano car was an amazing 1 Lakh, in comparison the QQ would be seen as an expensive import, but has a similar basic specification (except for the bigger engine) BYD has set up a battery factory in Chennai, India, but has yet to begin producing its line of cars in India.
The Competition
The competition from Indian marques seems very low. TATA seem to be the only company with interesting designs, and with much of India still rolling around in Hindustan Ambassadors (Morris Oxfords). The rest of Indian car makers seem to be joint ventures with Euro or Jap marques, what do the Chinese independent brands (Roewe, Chery, Geely, Lifan etc)really have to fear?
What do China Car Times readers think of the non action of Chinese makers in India?
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I have seen cars of foreign companies(GM,FORD etc) in Indian Markets with quality 40% comparison to India Cars.
So with the price that of Indian cars, Forieners can not compete here. Event if You have to stay in Indian Market your car’s lowest model should start from as low as INR 2.5 Lacs.
Good Luck China and others.
Actually the thing is that most of india’s population drives Suzuki Wagon r or alto, Much more high quality car than any of the copy cat chinese car makers make , Moreover chinese autocar maker are nothing in front of tata , no automaker dares to compare itself to tata.
Jaguar landrover and tata motors , mahindra and mahindra , icml,have come up to exports to brazil too
can brazil government supports chinese quality vehicle, no man.
In 2.5 lacs one can have a chevrolet spark or a tata indica ,who will buy chery qq
chinese consumer are immature but indians are , we can have hyundai santro or i 10 are 3 lakh
who will buy low quality chery qq
please india does not roam in ambasador these days , there are more high quality car on indian roads than china
Please don’t write bull shit if you don’t know about a country , china still has to pass 25 years to reach the quality which indians are making
a reader from india
@ abhigo86
Plus Indians intensely dislike China and all things Chinese.
As one Hyundai executive puts it, India is one of few “China-free” auto market in developing world.
@abhigo86
From the tone you are talking, you are surely a nationalistic Idian. I have no objection with this kind of attitudes. However, if you are talking about cars, please be careful. Idian car industry is in no comparison with the Chinese. All I can say is you are just an idiot in front of CCT. You got a friend liked IHC is a perfect match……
@ hk
> From the tone you are talking, you are surely a nationalistic Idian.
No, he is a very typical Indian. The real Indian nationalists call for a war against China. If you didn’t know that India was one of few “China-free” places in developing world, it shows your own limited understanding of the outside world.
> Idian car industry is in no comparison with the Chinese.
Western automakers rate highly of Indian automakers for their innovation, while Chinese are lowly regarded.
A little too much attitude in here. I am far from someone that says Chinese cars are great and should be sold in all markets. But if Indian cars are better than GM and Ford, why aren’t they being sold in other markets. Brazil is far from a market demanding the best cars. Are Indian cars in any developed markets?
Also please don’t throw in Jaguar, or Land Rover into this. They were pretty recently acquired and their development does not really trace back to India.
Common guys We are now gonna exort Tata Nanno to Taiwan soon !
You can checkout the latest news !
Is there any developed country in this world that can make a Nano [ People's Car ]
You guys have a log way to go for such a car !
Good Try by VW,GM etc in Indian Market for launching Small Car like Tata’s but see the difference in Price !
Common guys We are now gonna export Tata Nanno to Taiwan soon !
You can checkout the latest news !
Is there any developed country in this world that can make a Nano [ People's Car ]
You guys have a log way to go for such a car !
Good Try by VW,GM etc in Indian Market for launching Small Car like Tata’s but see the difference in Price !
Taiwan isn’t too impressive. Once they are established in Europe, USA or Canada or Japan you can celebrate. Even Australia.
I there any developed country that would let a Nano on it’s roads? It has little to no safety features. IMHO A car is meant to bring you safely from A to B. If the car is not safe, then I don’t car what price it sells for.
Like Head Honcho said: Once the Tata is established in Europe, USA.. Then you can celebrate.
There is a version of the NANO meant for Europe, but it needs so many upgrades, that the price has increased a lot.
@ Bob
> I there any developed country that would let a Nano on it’s roads?
Nano is undergoing an EU harmonization, and received a 4 star rating in EuroNCAP test. US harmonization may be hard because the US crash test and emissions standard is now much tougher than Europe(2 stars for 2011 Honda Civic, for example).
> If the car is not safe, then I don’t car what price it sells for.
Nano is much safer than Cherys and BYDs if that’s what you are asking. Tata is a real auto company that does its own engineering, unlike Chery and BYD.
> There is a version of the NANO meant for Europe, but it needs so many upgrades, that the price has increased a lot.
It’s still like 6,000 Euros, not much by European market standard.