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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry (insideevs.com)
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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Americans, like most people, are open to just about anything if you hit them with enough marketing or propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

You don't need a lot of marketing to prefer a basic but decent car for a third (or less) of the price of the average American car (read: truck). American cars are bloating like crazy, and even if the tracking is insane on a chinese car, it's no better on a domestic car. The American (and European) auto industry needs to get its act together and stop blaming consumers for not happily donating them stupid amounts of money and data

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I have yet to see a single ad for a Chinese EV I am constantly seeing ads for trucks. I don't own a truck, I highly doubt I will ever own a truck. So either I am special (very doubtful) or no amount of effort will convince me that black is white and white is black.

Now sell me a low cost EV already and not some penis compensation device that guzzles fuel.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

You mean TikTok. He means TikTok.