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One thing from a consumer perspective (brand perspective) is chinese cars have very bad company names eg., BYD, Zeekr, Xpheng, Geely if compared to other brand
by i67vw3 3y ago
One thing from a consumer perspective (brand perspective) is chinese cars have very bad company names eg., BYD, Zeekr, Xpheng, Geely if compared to other brands from other countries like Toyota, Hyundai, Audi, Ford, TATA etc.
Personally, I would not roam around with 'Xpheng' name etched on my car.
- londons_explore 3y ago'007' seems like a great name though.
- PebblesHD 3y agoAt least here in Australia it’s a popular option to de-badge your BYD removing the ‘Build Your Dreams’ from the back hatch.
- YeBanKo 3y agoIt’s only bad if you aren’t used to it. When Japanese brands tried to break into automotive world, they sounded weird too. Xiomi and Hiawei don’t sound too different to Samsung and Nokia these days.
- fyrn_ 3y agoYou kind of proved GP's point by misspelling both names. They are Xiaomi and Huawei. The fact that you misspelled them isn't surprising, as both have "foreign" spellings compared with the Japanese brands like Toyota, Honda, Nissan. X is rarely used in English, and they have paired and less common vowel pairs. Both are also not pronounced phonetically, which is also true of the the Japanese brands but the approximation is arguably closer for them. Certainly for some of the brands sounding like Amazon 3rd-party re-resellers is a big mark against them.
- YeBanKo 3y agoLol you overanalyzed it. I fat-fingered in mobile. U is next to i and unlike Nissan or Toyota, my swipe keyboard does not recognize Huawei yet.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoThey’ll just come to the states under a different name.
- powerapple 3y agoXPeng is actually similar to Mercedes-Benz, or Ford, the brand is just the founder's name :)