China Goes Wild For CRappy GM Cars

[Kommander_KornFlakes]

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Please, somebody tell them that they are buying junk

GM sold a whopping 775,000 vehicles in China in 2008

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=efe_1234431459

[voodoo401]

After seeing the Chinese designed cars being crash tested I would too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SRyG6UR2A
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/C...Car_151645.htm

[bokep]

leave it to the japanese and europeans

no seriously

[KorruptioN]

The Chinese engineers like you over there won't even buy Chinese cars!

[Kommander_KornFlakes]

After seeing the Chinese designed cars being crash tested I would too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SRyG6UR2A
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/C...Car_151645.htm

Well sadly I do have to agree that chinese tin-can cars are inferior to GM crap cars

[AudiDude]

They are cheap metal. They melt them for scrap and make four cars out of one and sell them...

[danfromwaterloo]

As bad as many people on here feel GM is, they are only inferior because there are better cars available to us. In China, GM is wayyyyyy better than Geely or other Chinese-made deathtraps

[JAC]

Well sadly I do have to agree that chinese tin-can cars are inferior to GM crap cars

I thought you were too young to drive. How could you possibly know?

[Hairball]

You can still buy lots of GM cars with a 6 figure salary. Even more Chinese ones.

[nornet]

So GM has about 10% of the market. Not bad. What's your point?

[Emancipated]

What's the domestic market share in NA? Ok, keep it simple and just Canada? Canada being very multicultural and some what on the forefront of technology savviness; an avant-garde culture, I suspect the market share for Japanese imports dwindles that of the domestic brand. Aren't we largely to credit for the Civic's success?

[teknoluv]

GM sold a whopping 775,000 vehicles in China in 2008

It's interesting that you read (decode) the same piece of news in a different manner. Or is that the fault of BBC?

This is what really made the news:

China monthly auto sales overtake US for 1st time (Associated Press)

I'm actually more interested in how GM would shift its market attention to where the money goes.

[SkiD]

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Please, somebody tell them that they are buying junk

GM sold a whopping 775,000 vehicles in China in 2008

You do realize that not everything GM (or Ford/Chrysler) make is 'junk' and not everything made by Toyota (Honda/Nissan/etc.) is perfect. If people would do research they might actually buy vehicles that match their lifestyle instead of just being sheep and buy something because they once made a better product than someone else.

I congratulate the Japanese for raising the bar on vehicle reliability, but I loathe them for removing the soul from vehicles.

What's the domestic market share in NA? Ok, keep it simple and just Canada? Canada being very multicultural and some what on the forefront of technology savviness; an avant-garde culture, I suspect the market share for Japanese imports dwindles that of the domestic brand. Aren't we largely to credit for the Civic's success?

Canadian Market Share
2008(January to December) - Domestics 55% - Imports 45%
2009(January) - Domestics 45% - Imports 55%

Market share decline in late 2008/early 2009 has more to do with financial crisis and uncertainty than brand/model preference.

[KawaiiTentacleBeast]

OP, did you know that in Europe, Ford sells more Ford Focuses alone than all of Honda Europe's models put together?

Europeans and Chinese are just not sophisticated car consumers like you are. You really should go over there and tell them. Bring them out of their benighted ignorance with your superior North American taste!

[stuntman]

What's the domestic market share in NA? Ok, keep it simple and just Canada? Canada being very multicultural and some what on the forefront of technology savviness; an avant-garde culture, I suspect the market share for Japanese imports dwindles that of the domestic brand. Aren't we largely to credit for the Civic's success?

Honda gets credit for the civic's success.

When you get a good meal made fo you do you take credit for that too?