I vowed to never buy from dictatorships, authoritarian or Lenin style governments ever again. Its not easy but also not hard to find products.
I’d never ever buy a Chinese car. Are you sure the airbags will work when the time comes? Are you really really sure or only 85%?
The same as I wouldnt buy Nazi Germany products or Imperial Japan products.
Edit: guys, I know it cant be 100%. I also drink coffee and eat bananas. But on the smile curve I try to assess my purchases from the value added perspective.
Any-Original-6113 on
I hope that Europe will be able to survive this, just as it survived the invasion of American brands in the late 1950s.
DoubleSaltedd on
I support everything that makes VAG weaker.
wolflance1-5 on
European brands can still hang on for a bit through sheer inertia and sentimental value, but this battle is already lost, if there was even a “battle” to begin with.
The overtaking of European car brands is total and complete. Performance, cost, technology, comfort, eco-friendliness, features, safety, quality….everything you can name or not name, China has surpassed them all. It is simply not worthwhile to buy European car brand anymore.
And it is a good thing. A competitive market is a fair market. Those that can’t survive the competition SHOULD be eliminated, and consumers stand to benefit from better product at a cheaper price.
r0w33 on
I will never buy a car made in China. I avoid buying anything Chinese more complicated than injection moulded kitchen utensils and local food. It’s simple – if we want Europe to be prosperous, we have to support European businesses.
smallbatter on
EU car will still survive in the next 20 years, but it is very hard to sell any of them outside the EU.
I am living in Australia, and I will never buy any EU car. NOT because it is shit but I can’t wait 4 weeks for spare parts.
tokyo_blues on
I will never, ever buy an expensive Chinese product. I’ve been burnt too many times. Enough is enough.
Also we live only once, I will not be seen around driving a Chinese car in this life.
helena-dido on
there is pretty popular opinion that Europeans cars have poor reliability, or at least inconsistent quality control (people say it’s hit or miss during buy), while Japanese have strong reputation at reliability and longetivity
is this opinion based?
AverellCZ on
I’m still hoping that one day Europe will understand the Chinese tactics of subsidizing their own industries to eliminate non-chinese competition to the point that they seize to exist and the world has to solely rely on Chinese manufacturing.
But right now we’re even inviting them ( see Hungary) or keep selling them our key technologies (see Kuka).
And the money China makes in the process, they use to prop up their army. While helping russia which keeps us distracted.
Recent_Blacksmith282 on
Lower your prices
TheGaelicPrince on
None of what we take for granted would be here without Arab, African & Latin American oil, resources & labour.
Fluffy-Anybody-8668 on
Well, may the brands that offer the best overall deals to the consumers win
DasistMamba on
With the fact that Chinese cars are strongly progressing, after 3 years of active sales in Russia, for the owners surfaced such a problem that in the secondary market they are falling in price. Few people want to buy 3-5 year old Chinese cars.
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I vowed to never buy from dictatorships, authoritarian or Lenin style governments ever again. Its not easy but also not hard to find products.
I’d never ever buy a Chinese car. Are you sure the airbags will work when the time comes? Are you really really sure or only 85%?
The same as I wouldnt buy Nazi Germany products or Imperial Japan products.
Edit: guys, I know it cant be 100%. I also drink coffee and eat bananas. But on the smile curve I try to assess my purchases from the value added perspective.
I hope that Europe will be able to survive this, just as it survived the invasion of American brands in the late 1950s.
I support everything that makes VAG weaker.
European brands can still hang on for a bit through sheer inertia and sentimental value, but this battle is already lost, if there was even a “battle” to begin with.
The overtaking of European car brands is total and complete. Performance, cost, technology, comfort, eco-friendliness, features, safety, quality….everything you can name or not name, China has surpassed them all. It is simply not worthwhile to buy European car brand anymore.
And it is a good thing. A competitive market is a fair market. Those that can’t survive the competition SHOULD be eliminated, and consumers stand to benefit from better product at a cheaper price.
I will never buy a car made in China. I avoid buying anything Chinese more complicated than injection moulded kitchen utensils and local food. It’s simple – if we want Europe to be prosperous, we have to support European businesses.
EU car will still survive in the next 20 years, but it is very hard to sell any of them outside the EU.
I am living in Australia, and I will never buy any EU car. NOT because it is shit but I can’t wait 4 weeks for spare parts.
I will never, ever buy an expensive Chinese product. I’ve been burnt too many times. Enough is enough.
Also we live only once, I will not be seen around driving a Chinese car in this life.
there is pretty popular opinion that Europeans cars have poor reliability, or at least inconsistent quality control (people say it’s hit or miss during buy), while Japanese have strong reputation at reliability and longetivity
is this opinion based?
I’m still hoping that one day Europe will understand the Chinese tactics of subsidizing their own industries to eliminate non-chinese competition to the point that they seize to exist and the world has to solely rely on Chinese manufacturing.
But right now we’re even inviting them ( see Hungary) or keep selling them our key technologies (see Kuka).
And the money China makes in the process, they use to prop up their army. While helping russia which keeps us distracted.
Lower your prices
None of what we take for granted would be here without Arab, African & Latin American oil, resources & labour.
Well, may the brands that offer the best overall deals to the consumers win
With the fact that Chinese cars are strongly progressing, after 3 years of active sales in Russia, for the owners surfaced such a problem that in the secondary market they are falling in price. Few people want to buy 3-5 year old Chinese cars.