Anyone who's actually ridden inside a BYD car would understand why. The cars are extremely well-designed for their price.
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Honestly I'm not really surprised, they're a battery company that moved into making cars. Considering how important batteries are to electric cars, if they make reliable, cheap and powerful batteries, it won't be hard to move cars, even mediocre ones, and from what I've seen, their cars are anything but mediocre.
"sales"
Ah yes, the same argument behind "gee look at this ghost city and this subway station in the middle of nowhere. must be investment by stupid Chinese trying to pad numbers."
Do these idiot YouTubers think before making a video?
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Hope this gives striking workers more leverage.
Why would Ford care when it can just petition the US government to block the sale of Chinese cars? It's the same thing Boeing did to block Bombardier sales in the US.
I'm hoping for Chinese cars because the low end of the US market is a mess.
If I want a sedan, my choices are more limited than they've been in decades.
Everything is more expensive, which I blame on adding a lot of complexities and gimmicks. At this point, an ICE drive train is a solved problem. Nominally, it seems like most of the features are about making it more luxurious but plenty of use cases don't need that.
Save $500 million on engineering an infotainment fiasco; sell me a car with the legally mandated back camera and a DIN sized slot, and I'll let Pioneer/Kenwood/JVC figure put the rest. Don't replace the chirping remote for power doorlocks-- which itself can be offered one model up from the base trim-- with a cloud-enabled, app-privacy-fiasco breaking point that turns into a vector for a $10-per-month subscription. Make sure cloth seats are available since Arizona exists and nobody wants to weld their ass to leather/pleather, oh wait now it's "vegan leather", which I guess is made from the skin of pretentious pricks.
Basically, sell me a 2002 Elantra built to modern crash safety code.
Ford's market is world-wide. Sure they can get their competition banned in some countries, but they're still losing market share elsewhere.
So is Boeing's.
Ya, I'd trust a Chinese car as much as I'd trust tiktok.
Ever driven one?