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From whom did Sir Nicholas Stern get his crazy idea that US vehicles aren’t sold in pristine, environmentally-aware China? Why, possibly from Holy Al Gore himself:
“We can’t sell our cars in China today because we don’t meet the Chinese emissions standards.”
Wrong, almost-President Gore. Check the links.
(Via James S.)
“We can’t sell our cars in China today because we don’t meet the Chinese emissions standards.”
What’s the difference. It doesn’t matter if we can or cannot, nobody wants a crap American-made car anyhow. Thank the UAWU for destroying what used to be some of the best made cars around. But start paying a guy $30/hour for doing a $4/hour job and this is what you get: an over-priced piece of crap that’s ready for the crusher in 4 years. Sheesh.
The Goreacle™ Hath Spoken, and Stern must listen.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 03 at 01:46 PM • permalinkWow, ok, the company I work for has a car dealership DMS that we are selling in China, doing ok too, problems more with the Chinese changing their business practices to one of accountability :). We’re, um, there because we’ve been signed as Ford’s preferred car dealership DMS in China.
Oh well, at least the screens are pretty in Chinese.
China’s traffic is amazing. Typically you will have eight lanes of traffic on a four-lane road. Every available spot is filled. Drivers cut in, go the wrong way, flout every law, but even more amazing is the lack of road rage. Indiscretions which would require a punch-up in Australia don’t even cause an eye blink in China. Except for one thing - nervy drivers of fancy new imported cars who stick to their lanes and won’t use their wing mirrors to test the width of gaps in the traffic. Those guys interrupt the flow.
The chinks have been building awful Jeep Cherokees under licence since the mid 80s, and no doubt doing other makes and models now as well as their own horrors. Gore wouldn’t know if you were up him with an armful of chairs. Has the fat bastard ever been to China? I can’t recall any recent blizzards there, and if the flabby sod turned up unannounced the Peoples Army might mistake him for a return of Buddah and blast him into the ether, so probably not.
GM Sales in China jump 25% -
GM’s flagship brand, Buick, registered sales growth of 25.3 percent year on year to 82,195 vehicles, with the Excelle family remaining its best-selling model. Sales of products from Chevrolet, GM’s second mainstream brand in China, rose 19.0 percent to 41,144 vehicles in the first quarter. The Chevrolet Spark enjoyed its second-highest monthly sales ever of 4,428 units in March, while the new Chevrolet Epica generated sales of 3,629 units in its single month on the market in March. GM’s luxury nameplate, Cadillac, had sales growth of 62.2 percent in the first quarter to 1,797 units.
The Buick is a locally made variant of the US model, the Excelle, Spark and Epica are GM Daewoo models, and the Cadillac is directly imported from the US. But that is unfortunately a fact, and cannot be allowed to upset the prevailing tenets of Warmenisers.
Anyone that has been to China would find it laughable that they have any pollution restrictions on anything. It has the dirtiest air, water & environment I have ever seen, and I have been to some shitholes. You actually see a lot of American cars, some made in China (GM & Ford have plants there) some imported. Any import restrictions would probably be based on politics.
As a matter of fact I have been to many countries (not Oz or NZ unfortunately) and find the US to be the cleanest. The amount the US has invested in cleaner cars & power plants over the years has paid off. Our cities are one hell of a lot cleaner than, say EUROPE where most of their buildings are eroding before your eyes from all of the pollution. I blame Bush.
#14 - In Birmingham, that smell was probably from all the amateur bomb makers the place now houses.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 04 03 at 11:23 PM • permalinkWas recently in Shanghai for a weekend. Sun? What sun? This with no clouds in the sky either, unless they were unseen above the permahaze. Anyone who could believe that place has stricter pollution standards than the U.S. would believe “Inconvenient Truth” is non-fiction. Oh, wait…
And yes, there were plenty of foreign cars—most locally made VWs and Buicks with a few Beemers and Caddies—on the streets.
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2007 04 04 at 12:44 AM • permalink#11
The new model Goremobile for the world market: overweight, poor handling, poor economy, poor performance and has a voice-prompting system that condescends and speaks slowly, as if to an 8-year-old.Stablemates:
Mooremobile (gas turbine)
Flummery (SUV)
Sternwagon: EU model, with buy back credits due to unreliability, as produced in Eastern blocJust back from the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Convention, where one of the booths had an all-electric vehicle manufactured in China, the Javlon. Theoretically due out next year, it had a top speed of 80mph, so it’s not for street racing. On the other hand, it actually looked like and was built like a real car, which is more than can be said for the glorified golf carts that pass for electric cars these days.
The rest of the convention was interesting, especially for an environmentally-conscious conservative like myself. Several booths focused on ‘independence from foreign oil’ as a motivating factor, with ‘reducing pollution’ being the closest they strayed toward AGW silliness. The Honda rep, Annabel something, I suspect of being a closet Republican. She was way too level-headed to be a Dem. Of course, there were also a few presenters who made me sorely regret neglecting to bring a few Global Warming Swindle DVDs along for.
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