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> But I’m not sure if Chinese cars will make a significant dent in the US market. Spoken like someone who has not driven a Polestar 2 or checked out its build
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
> But I’m not sure if Chinese cars will make a significant dent in the US market.
Spoken like someone who has not driven a Polestar 2 or checked out its build quality, I believe. Of course they're really Volvo built by the super modern Geely factory in China, last i saw.
- coredog64 4y agoI owned a Great Wall for two years (H5/Haval). It wasn’t terrible (it had a Mitsubishi gasoline engine and GM engine computer), but GW did the integration engineering themselves and it showed. My go to example was the belt tensioner. It tensioned the belt, but all the forces went through one bolt head. Whereas my ‘95 F-150 had a specific boss cast into a bracket that accepted a half inch ratchet allowing you to use a breaker bar. Ford and GM have more than a hundred years of experience in what works and what doesn’t (although cost-cutting may not really let the former shine). It’s not until these vehicles see widespread adoption in the native market that the industrial practitioners will build their own knowledge base.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoDo you mean (I can't tell) that Volvo doesn't have experience like Ford and GM?