Chinese-Made Trumpchi Cars Coming to US in 2019

The Drive ^ | NOVEMBER 18, 2017 | DAVE BARTOSIAK

[nickcarraway]

[tumblindice]

Nice and shiny! Throw in a full auto Norinco Type 56 and I’m there dude.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Best import since the Yugo.

[NorseViking]

You can see Nissan with a naked eye in it.

[jiggyboy]

Obligatory public service announcement: Please view a few of the videos from this youtube.com search for “chinese crash test” before you consider buying a Chinese car.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chinese+crash+test

[jiggyboy]

What happened about halfway through your post? All of a sudden Skynet took over and gave us a robot stream of consciousness that doesn’t match the article.

[davetex]

Here’s one that surprised me.

https://youtu.be/BDfgqZjxCro

[NorseViking]

Old news. First of all the Brilliance car is in class of compact Chrysler and it is about a decade old. You can’t compare it to 7er on safety. Chinese cars are heavily improving over time. 15 years ago it was garbage, 10 years ago they were already bearable and given the right price you might consider getting a modern one right now.

[newfreep]

An electric concept car from Chinese automaker GAC Group at the Detroit auto show. btw, Volvos are now built in China...

[mcmuffin]

Old news. First of all the Brilliance car is in class of compact Chrysler and it is about a decade old. You can’t compare it to 7er on safety. Chinese cars are heavily improving over time. 15 years ago it was garbage, 10 years ago they were already bearable and given the right price you might consider getting a modern one right now.

So true.

Quality-wise Chinese cars can't be any worse than our 2005 Hyundai Sante Fe!

[central_va]

We need a tariff NOW! Try shipping cars to China and selling them there, good luck. Globalist Free Traitors™ are killing us!

[PIF]

I suppose if you like electric vehicles with absolutely no structural integrity, love paying more for electricity, one of these things could be parked in your driveway someday soon.

Trumpchi, crash and die!

[central_va]

The United States’ success exporting autos to China has come in the face of substantial barriers at the border, notably China’s 25 percent auto tariff. China also imposes a special tax on cars and SUVs with large engines, which tends to fall on imports (a luxury tax is imminently reasonable by the way; it only arouses suspicion because of the relative absence of domestic Chinese production in this segment).

Auto Trade with China

[setha]

Nice looking deathtrap. Pity that China manufacturers tend to underpower their cars (I4’s where *6/*8 would be) as well.

[trebb]

LOL! That’ll get the Left going - a Chinese version of a Russian rifle.....;-)

[setha]

Yet their engines are still poky and cars too global. Even if they improved, they still don’t make anything I’d want to drive.

Now if they managed to clone an American landyacht with a US-style (read: >3L, not an I4) engine, but without the stratospheric price tag, I’d show some interest.

[corkoman]

Thanks! - i thought I had a small head clot and ported into another thread. Plywood F117’s??? wha??

[NorseViking]

The biggest Chinese engine in a car I saw was a 2.4 liter 4 cylinder Mitsubishi clone from 1990s on 2009 Great Wall Hover.
I also drove a newer Chinese full-size SUV powered by 2 liter! 4 cylinder engine. It was turbocharged to about 200 hp.

[setha]

Aside from emissions and cost, anything that keeps them from going further?

[NorseViking]

I believe Chinese domestic tax policies puts 200hp+ out of the reach of the Middle Class.