Are China's cars finally going to make inroads in Western markets?

i am certain they can build good quality stuff. But that is expensive and not how China has gotten where it is. As a consumer what I have seen is a good quality product that over time degrades with each successive generation. Having said that the dollars are only gong to get harder to come by so a cheap dangerous alternative to expensive and safe vehicles will grow more popular for the majority of buyers. Trump is promising fewer regulations so this is likely the future for Americans. He will do this to pocket some dollars from China cause he is addicted to money. Eventually the tables will turn and China will make lovely safe vehicles for the home market and dangerous cheap cars for export much as everyone else does because money and dominion. ..

Visser who? Get ready for the recalls...

"China is passing you at a speed that in our arrogance we don't even see...

That is exactly what the Western globalist elite have helped create and support. Foreign automakers are legally barred from setting up in China, unless they partner with Chinese state firms, an arrangement our "multinational" automakers and globalist policymakers have little problem with.

Without his arrangement, and the forced technology transfer it involves, there would be no Chinese auto industry, beyond ox carts. If Western countries were allowed to do the same, the Chinese would have no export markets, and Western auto workers would be better off by being able to supply our homegrown models to China in huge numbers. And that is exactly want our globalists DON'T want.

Wouldn't they be required to partner with local companies first?

What happens when there are recalls and class-action lawsuits? How open would the Chinese manufacturers about hiding defects? It's hard enough from private companies like Volkswagen and false inspection scandals - how much harder would it be to extract reliable information to come out of China

How much would ya trust the cars are as what they say

Jeff and Lost - very good posts. Look up the drywall issues from Florida in the early 2000's for a case study on the great stone walling that will happen if there are defects.

I would never buy a auto manufactured in China no matter how cheap! They would be a step below American brand and Korean brand autos. I have never had any luck with American brand autos as they all turned into sodai gomi. In other words garbage that have to be paid to be removed.