The thing though is this. If they follow S.Korea's method they mgiht make some headway. Hyundai had the worst quality (even worse than Detroit) for the longest time up and until around 3 yrs ago when their quality started going up until now Hyundai has some of the hgihest quality ratings. Chinese vehicles will obviously have the price point advantage compared to Detroit (and Japan and Korea for that matter), and the only factor will be quality.
Anyways, I hope Detroit does not sit still and let China pass them by (in much the same way they sat sucking their thumbs as Japan passed them in the 70s and Korea passed them a couple of years ago in quality).
Detroit better treat the threat matrix of future Chinese imports with meticulous focus because if they do not their (Detroit's) death knell will be rung by the chinese 8-10 yrs from now.
DETROIT and Quality are an oxymoron........