[Responsibility2nd]

A Chinese Buick?

Great. That should be an improvement. Like all Chinese imports, I would expect to pay about $8,000 for a new Buick.

Now that price - along with no union bloat - would and could entice me to buy a Buick.

But until then - forget it.

[Zhang Fei]

“Like all Chinese imports, I would expect to pay about $8,000 for a new Buick.”

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No idea if that will ever materialize, but here’s a list of the cheapest cars in the world:

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/the-ten-cheapest-cars-in-the-world/

The problem will always be reliability and collision standards. In poor countries, salaries are low, and this translates into relatively low labor rates for repairs.

[alloysteel]

The Chinese are not dummies.

A tricked-out Buick (really a rebadged Australian Holden) will be sold for a price competitive with something like, say, a Toyota Avalon or equivalent.

GM’s subsidiary Holden in Australia is not doing so well either, but that in no way detracts from the quality of the cars they design and build.