Look Out Toyota, Here Comes The Good Enough Chinese Car

[*MAD DOG*]

Originally Posted by junorico24

They are already sold in Australia.Presently there is two Chines brands in Australia. Great Wall Motors and Chery. Great Wall Motors produce SUV's and pick ups and they are selling like hot cakes. They are cheaper but not by much.You would be surprise to know they are only a few grand cheaper than other makes.

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

How do Australians (government officials and consumers) feel about vehicle safety? Less of a priority than for Americans and for Germans?

Originally Posted by junorico24

They comply with safety.The biggest problem is drink driving like an idiot and speeding not the cars fault per say.If you can get past the mental paranoia about Chinese vehicles being unsafe.Then you will have a normal safe vehicle to drive around in.


Peace..Go scoop yourself a Great Wall.

http://www.greatwallmotors.com.au/de...ticle&ID=21794

There is 25 559 Great Wall Motors on Australian Roads and growing baby. So they are not as bad as you think. However it is by no means cheap buddy.$ 28 990 for a suv DIESEL. Which is not bad. The Panda is less than 10K. You get what you pay for..BTW you can purchased a pick up truck loaded with features power package, air con, air bag, abs and power windows etc for the same price as a midget YARIS. End of STORY.

It is true. We do have Great Wall here in Australia. The ute's do sell as they are priced to do so. They scrape in and meet the minimum Australian design standards. That's how they are in our market. Only tight arses purchase these vehicles.

However, I would not be caught dead in one and they still use asbestos in their cars, making these cars a real problem in my opinion. Who knows what else they are using to manufacture these cheap, tacky, nasty pieces of crap? Lead paint? Depleted uranium doors?

They recalled almost 25,000 of the cars just on the asbestos use alone http://news.drive.com.au/drive/motor...814-246a8.html

An example of how crap these vehicles are is the only way to put the 4 cyclinder X240 into 4WD mode is to turn the steering on full lock and putting it into reverse. This is a review of the Great Wall X240 http://news.drive.com.au/drive/motor...810-23xtz.html While it survived a trip over 1100 sand dunes in arguably one of the harshest climates in the world, I still would not own one, nor get in one.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by *MAD DOG*

However, I would not be caught dead in one and they still use asbestos in their cars, making these cars a real problem in my opinion. Who knows what else they are using to manufacture these cheap, tacky, nasty pieces of crap? Lead paint? Depleted uranium doors?

Obviously this is a marketing statagy designed to appeal to the Aussie sense of ruggedness.

"Come with me babe. My car has ASBESTOS in it! And which is more dangerous the asbestos or me...well...you'll have to find that out for yourself!"

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

Obviously this is a marketing statagy designed to appeal to the Aussie sense of ruggedness.

"Come with me babe. My car has ASBESTOS in it! And which is more dangerous the asbestos or me...well...you'll have to find that out for yourself!"