[gkanai]

> they're cheap, you get what you pay for, but they work and are reliable enough.

Chinese vehicles are not as safe in accidents as those cars which have had a longer time to engineer safety technologies. Also the price point of most Chinese cars do now allow for addition of safety technologies at the level of most other non-Chinese vehicles.

Same thing with the upcoming COMAC Chinese-made airplanes. You do not want to fly those planes when they finally hit the market.

[boznz]

Ford, BMW, VW, Volvo, etc already manufacture cars in China, and with 50% to 100% Chinese ownership its pretty obvious the next generation of Chinese cars are going to have the same level of refinement and safety as these (because, well Fuck IP rights) and at about half the price