[Paul Ross]

Consider just the cream, say the top 1% of China buying a car a year -- that's about 12 million cars.

A car a year? Highly unlikely. Even the Saudis have slowed down on their profligacy. Anyways, all 12 million will be built in China, no matter the name badge on the hood, because their Government has said so. So much for your fabulous Chinese Market. All you have instead created is the Chinese Manufacturing Collossus...with Western technology and industrial product and manufacturing design handed to them on a silver platter.

[XBob]

120-"A car a year? Highly unlikely. Even the Saudis have slowed down on their profligacy. Anyways, all 12 million will be built in China, no matter the name badge on the hood, because their Government has said so. So much for your fabulous Chinese Market. All you have instead created is the Chinese Manufacturing Collossus...with Western technology and industrial product and manufacturing design handed to them on a silver platter."

boy you can say that again. people who think of china as a vast market are fools. what they are is a vast and unscrupulos competitor.