Don’t threaten me with a cleaner environment.
Wasn’t already a big tariff on anything that’s not made in China to the point that is a status symbol to being able to afford a foreign car?
This is anecdotal, hearsay and probably not true, but a digger driver once told me that the reason theres so many chinese diggers and other heavy equipment over here these days is that if you are a chinese company and want to buy 1 western machine, you need to buy 10 locally manufactured ones and keep them for x amount of years.
So according to this dude the chinese companies would buy like a 100 local diggers and 10 western ones, park the locally produced ones in a storage until the x amount of years have passed and then sell them to the west.
Again, this was according to just some dude who digs holes in the ground. No idea if its actually true, if anyone knows I’d be interested to hear whats the reality.
Have you ever tried starting up a car that’s been sitting for a year?
That should tell you all you need to know about the reliability of digger man
Do it. The attractiveness of EU cars in China has a lot to do with expression of wealth, status, and exclusivity. It’s free marketing.
Make a cheaper model aimed at the market to offset the tarrif and the logo on front will sell itself.
According to this reddit post many European car brands are offering massive discounts to compensate for lack of sales.
China is already at around 50% of new cars being plugin electric