To: mgc1122
Im pretty sure Chinese cars crappy quality and materials - regardless
of style cue thefts - are going to be easily differentiated from BMW.
Give 'em time.
Because similar things were being said about "Jap junk" only a couple
of decades ago.
I remember our apt discription of the exhaust note of Japanese cars
(compared to our Mustangs, etc.):
"Sounds like a squirrel farting into a tin can".
But things changed.
6 posted on
08/28/2007 11:33:53 AM PDT by
VOA
To: VOA
When my dad was buying stuff for the Army & Air Force in 1950s Far East, a manufacturer offered some machine parts that were made in USA. Usa was a tiny Japanese fishing village that might have had three or four hibachis but no manufacturing capability...
To: VOA
Give 'em time. Because similar things were being said about "Jap junk" only a couple of decades ago. LOL ... well, as just one example - the ChiComms have been trying to manufacture an AK47 knockoff for decades, and to this very day, it's still crap and likely to be that way for the foreseeable future.
24 posted on
08/28/2007 11:49:59 AM PDT by
mgc1122
To: VOA
But you could see incremental improvement in everything the Japanese did with autos. The Chinese seem to be approaching things in a haphazard manner. Obviously they are unconscious of the PR impact of their blunders (killing household pets with poisoned dog food ingredients and putting lead paint on children’s toys?). I’m not sure they are on a path paralleling the Japanese yet.
55 posted on
08/28/2007 12:49:33 PM PDT by
Wally_Kalbacken
(Seldom right but never in doubt)
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: VOA
Give 'em time. Because similar things were being said about "Jap junk" only a couple of decades ago. No, there's a difference. The Japanese were on a learning curve, leading to the best manufacturing capability in the world.
The Chinese deliberately use inferior materials and skip QA/QC steps.
All the difference in the world.
83 posted on
08/28/2007 1:25:45 PM PDT by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: VOA
Because similar things were being said about "Jap junk" only a couple of decades ago. The difference is that these claims were greatly overstated about Japan back in the day, largely due to lingering bitterness about the war and stuff, whereas in the case of China it is completely true. The Japanese were manufacturing planes during the war that in many ways were superior to the ones we made, and they have always taken pride in their work.
There was never any serious epidemic of Japanese products killing people, animals, etcetera.
106 posted on
08/28/2007 1:45:53 PM PDT by
jpl
(Dear Al Gore: it's 3:00 A.M., do you know where your drug addicted son is?)
To: VOA
Yea now it sounds like the squirrel is running around in the can.
129 posted on
08/29/2007 7:33:41 PM PDT by
mad_as_he$$
(Republican DOES NOT equal Conservative!)
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