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Is still cannot comprehend how in the world Chinese fell for American cars. One thing I noticed is that recent Chinese immigrants to the West often get a very
by baybal2 6y ago
Is still cannot comprehend how in the world Chinese fell for American cars.
One thing I noticed is that recent Chinese immigrants to the West often get a very unpleasant surprise after buying GM cars in North America. GM in China is known to be much better than American GM, but they are still known as quite a bad deal to more technically literate buyers.
I guess, some people will drive just any car for as long as it's not Japanese.
Or may it be the appeal of a an image of a product made for "rich old people" is still so irresistible to Chinese buyers.
- MiroF 6y agoAmerican products are considered a luxury status symbol in much of China. There are literal "Jeep" stores in Beijing that are just selling Jeep-branded camo apparel at upscale prices.
- rsynnott 6y ago> Is still cannot comprehend how in the world Chinese fell for American cars. Well, because it's not an American car as such; it's a car designed for the Chinese market by an American company. Similarly, Ford is pretty popular in Europe (and so was GM until fairly recently when they sold off Opel), but their big sellers are largely cars designed for the European market. This goes both ways; Japanese and Korean manufacturers have models that are primarily or entirely designed for the US market.
- nickik 6y agoGM basically lost money in Europe for 15 years straight. Ford does make some money in Euope thanks to their commercial vehicles mostly, they don't actually make all that much money on the personal cars either. That said, Ford did much better in Europe then GM and are actually profitable there.