Look Out Toyota, Here Comes The Good Enough Chinese Car

[TPA5]

Main problem with this? I value my life. VW may have built no-frill cars, but I actually trust a VW car to keep my butt safe. I'm not trusting the Chinese industry to actually build something that won't;

1) Randomly have parts fail or rip apart

2) Flake apart like a paper crane in a collision

I'll stick to brands I know. I'm good with being adventurous and switching up toilet paper and breakfast cereal brands every now and again, but I'm not putting my life in the hands of a country famous for shoddy goods.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by TPA5

Main problem with this? I value my life. VW may have built no-frill cars, but I actually trust a VW car to keep my butt safe. I'm not trusting the Chinese industry to actually build something that won't;

1) Randomly have parts fail or rip apart

2) Flake apart like a paper crane in a collision

I'll stick to brands I know. I'm good with being adventurous and switching up toilet paper and breakfast cereal brands every now and again, but I'm not putting my life in the hands of a country famous for shoddy goods.

"I value my life" 'I'm not trusting the Chinese industry to actually build something that won't (keep my butt safe)' ----- I agree. These were my first two thoughts while reading the article Bronsin posted.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by TPA5

Main problem with this? I value my life. VW may have built no-frill cars, but I actually trust a VW car to keep my butt safe. I'm not trusting the Chinese industry to actually build something that won't;

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The VW Beetle had to be one of the most unsafe cars ever built. Gas tank in your lap, eggshell construction, manually adjusted drum brakes all around, and directionally unstable.

I put hundreds of thousands of miles on them and loved to do all the work on them.

If you can drive a Beetle surely you can drive a Chinese concoction.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

The VW Beetle had to be one of the most unsafe cars ever built. Gas tank in your lap, eggshell construction, manually adjusted drum brakes all around, and directionally unstable.

I put hundreds of thousands of miles on them and loved to do all the work on them.

If you can drive a Beetle surely you can drive a Chinese concoction.

My dad was a rep for Chevrolet in the early 70s. In dealerships they had these big clunky machines (covered in plastic) that would play different promotional videos that customers could watch. I don't know how they changed the videos (this was before Betamax). One of the videos was a promotional video for the Vega. It showed the Vega going around a fairly sharp corner and taking the corner just fine. Then the video showed a VW Beetle taking the same corner at the same speed and the Beetle ROLLED OVER and off the road into a ditch!

Beetle.....Chinese concoction.....what about the old (can't properly type this on an English keyboard) Citroen (the 2V I think) with the basket weave seats!!!......and of course the Trebant.....those polluted Germany for a fair amount of time after reunification.