Image: Robin Buckson / The Detroit News
Last year at Detroit Chinese automaker Geely gingerly tiptoed into Cobo Hall, barely registering a blip on the Wow Meter. This year the Chinese are back with Changfeng Motors putting up a display of five models, two SUVs, two pickups and a concept car. Surely the Wow Meter was wowed a bit more this time around...
Changfeng promises to enter the US market at some point, but no date has been announced yet...
billt9 says:
07:48 AM, 01/ 9/07
I don't see any chance this is possible.
Especially when we already have enough struggling manufacturers/brands in the US.
Volkswagen 235k/yr
Mitsubishi 118k /yr
Suzuki 101k /yr
Audi 90k /yr
Land Rover 48k /yr
Saab 36k /yr
Jaguar 20k /yr
Isuzu 16k /yr
gmguy111 says:
10:12 AM, 01/ 9/07
nope im not impressed at all if they do make it here it wil crash and burn like yugo and renault did.; While what they are displaying is an imporvement from the chery car that no one paid attention to last year I'm still not impressed.
estreka says:
10:42 AM, 01/ 9/07
I dunno. With DCX's infrastructure, Chery could indeed make a big impact.
firstwagon says:
11:41 AM, 01/ 9/07
I'll bet they make a slow start and then quickly grow. Korean cars will be first easy target and then they'll go after the Japanese and American competition.
If they can sell the cars for what they actually cost (without the government tacking on giant trade restrictions), then they will be everywhere within 10 years.
civicguy3 says:
04:45 PM, 01/ 9/07
I can't imagine buying one of those cars, especially after I watched this video on google.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4291830697517725289&q=crash+test
rlyon says:
02:30 PM, 01/10/07
Where are the pics of the 5 cars?