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BMW CEO Fuming Over Chinese Knock-Off Of Popular X5 SUV. (Pics)
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| 8/28/07
Posted on 08/28/2007 11:27:43 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: taxed2death
"...the effin chinks cant even build a ..."Is that necessary? Are you proud of that post?
What if Bill O'Reilly used your post. Would you step forward and take a bow?
Shame on you.
61
posted on
08/28/2007 1:04:19 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: LibWhacker; Paul Ross; Jeff Head; DarkWaters; Tailgunner Joe; Thunder90
What I am about to write is extreme but true. When you go to China to manufacture or even sell, you are asking to be couterfeited and knocked off. Even if you are dealing with a reputable EM, or, control your own factory there, people working for you turn over fast, and take the IP to somewhere else. Solution - go back to a de facto embargo. Painful but necessary for this and a whole host of additional reasons, especially the growing China / SCO threat.
62
posted on
08/28/2007 1:04:59 PM PDT
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
To: DCPatriot
....sorry.... I should have said effin “COMMUNISTS”....there...more PC. BOR?
hey, this is a no spin zone......LOL I’m sure the mod will come along and delete it shortly...don’t fret.
63
posted on
08/28/2007 1:07:19 PM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: VOA
Yeah. I recall the Chinese were only making stuffed animals and sneakers and plastic junk for WalMart. Then I looked stuff up, and as of now China makes 1/3 of the world's steel (up from 13% ten years ago - that is when they passed the US, which has gone from 13% to 8% in the same period - I kid you not) and 1/3 of the world's aluminum. Just little things you know, like that.
The closest actual parallel isn't even Japan in the 60s, it is more like the US itself in the 1890s to 1910s. The US passed Britain as the world's leading industrial power first, passed in total econ next, and a generation later in world power. Here's hoping China gets democratic and nice as fast as it gets big.
64
posted on
08/28/2007 1:08:52 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: Sicon
“Anyway, you have my condolences on the whole Fiero thing!”
LOL! Exactly. :)
65
posted on
08/28/2007 1:08:55 PM PDT
by
L98Fiero
(A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
To: DCPatriot
I always heard that one as a “schoolbus and a pickle”
66
posted on
08/28/2007 1:10:06 PM PDT
by
CMailBag
To: Sicon
now just what the hell’s wrong with chewing tobacco and spitting into an empty beer can??? :)
67
posted on
08/28/2007 1:10:14 PM PDT
by
Andonius_99
(There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
To: taxed2death
Ask him/her to delete mine #61 too then...to get rid of what I copied.
Cheers!
68
posted on
08/28/2007 1:10:51 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: Wally_Kalbacken
See number 64. They aren't competing on quality. They are competing on sheer brawn. And winning, too.
69
posted on
08/28/2007 1:11:20 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: Wally_Kalbacken
“But you could see incremental improvement in everything the Japanese
did with autos.”
Yes.
The post-WWII Japanese had a number of advantages:
1. understanding of how to build/run a real “hard metal” industry
2. plenty of hungry people that were desperate to succeed
3. the luck of latching onto a quality-control guru...from the USA
To some degree China doesn’t have those factors.
And while they are (relatively) getting rich and fat from selling
junk to the USA...that sort of knocks the wind out of any attempt to
try to build real quality/safety into their autos.
(just my inexpert opinion)
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posted on
08/28/2007 1:12:16 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: CMailBag
I always heard that one as a schoolbus and a pickleYou've piqued my curiosity now...what's the answer???
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posted on
08/28/2007 1:12:52 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: LibWhacker
I can see all sorts of dissimilarities between them.
By this standard Honda should be suing Hyunda for producing a Sonata that looks so similar to my current-model Accord from many angles. You can’t (at least so far, to the best of my knowledge) copyright style. Get bent, BMW, ya bunch of arrogant Germans.
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posted on
08/28/2007 1:14:55 PM PDT
by
-YYZ-
(Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
To: VOA
I could recall my late father...a UAW member...always ragging on toys or products with "Made in Japan" on them.
If he were alive today to see what the Japanese did to his domestic auto industry's standing in the market, he'd flip out.
73
posted on
08/28/2007 1:16:59 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: DCPatriot
My civility goes out the window when I work on a high quality photo paper attachment for a very large and reputable US corporation...then said corporation takes beautifully functioning prototype and ships it and the blueprints off to China.....where three months later a shipment is sent back with 3000 of these instruments that have been made cheaper, sleazier and very carelessly. Now they shred high quality photo paper. Marketing is trying to figure out how to sell them as such (shredders).
If it’s made in China, it’s crap.
/rant over
74
posted on
08/28/2007 1:18:42 PM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: gridlock
The ChiCom car actually looks, from the rear, more like the Lexus I was behind a little while ago (although the tail lights are different). Did you even look at the pictures showing the rear bumpers before you said they looked alike? Hint: the BMW is the one without the indention for the license plate and the cow catcher underneath. And the taillights are not similar at all (and BMW did a much better job on that design element.)
Come on. If you saw the two cars parked side by side in a lot, would you think it was the same model?
75
posted on
08/28/2007 1:18:59 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: DCPatriot
If he were alive today to see what the Japanese did to his domestic auto industry's standing in the market, he'd flip out. I'd say Detroit, the UAW, and management did it to themselves. If they lose the light truck market, American vehicles will go the way of American TV sets.
76
posted on
08/28/2007 1:19:44 PM PDT
by
dashing doofus
(Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
To: LibWhacker
The rear window is different, the tailights are different, as are the door panels, quarter-panels, the rear wiper, the rear bumper etc.
77
posted on
08/28/2007 1:21:37 PM PDT
by
4CJ
(Annoy a liberal, honour Christians and our gallant Confederate dead)
To: taxed2death
I excuse them and call it 'growing pains'.
Talk about a sleeping giant...if they every adopt the immediate-post Pearl Harbor attitude Americans industry enjoyed.
78
posted on
08/28/2007 1:21:57 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: LibWhacker
Won’t catch me in either. One’s too expensive for my taste and the other...............Chinese
79
posted on
08/28/2007 1:22:41 PM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(tagline on holiday)
To: Andonius_99
now just what the hells wrong with chewing tobacco and spitting into an empty beer can??? :)Not a thing, actually - it just fits the stereotype I was shooting for.
At least you didn't ask what's wrong with taking your cousin on a date!
80
posted on
08/28/2007 1:24:25 PM PDT
by
Sicon
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