China The great fall
Chinese cars were tipped to dominate the budget car class and challenge established brands in half the time it took the Japanese and South Korean companies - but the bubble burst before it's properly inflated.
After some early success since becoming the first Chinese brand to sale in Australia, Great Wall Motors hit reverse and his Chinese counterparts are struggling to enter the first report.
Official figures for the first five months of the year show the Great Wall Motors deliveries were down 35 percent compared to the same period last year - a record market is up by 4 5 percent .
Other Chinese brands such as Foton also had an early stalled after the announcement of major projects there two years Foton sold less than 300 pick-up at that time.
Budget Geely brand still limited its sales to Western Australia and small Chery cars were thwarted by new competition from the established brands Chery sales are down 35 percent.
Chery J1 hatchback is the cheapest car in Australia for nearly two decades when it is on sale with a price of 9990 away from training in 2011, and is now available with a half pay now, half later case but also did not rock the sales charts.
Sales have slowed for now, but they will recover, says Daniel Cotterill, spokesman Ateco, Great Wall Motors distributor and Chery cars and range of Foton trucks.
It's been frustrating for us and the dealers not to have more new models available to us as quickly as we would like.
The other challenge for Chinese automobile brands Marques is that the general public such as Suzuki, Nissan and Volkswagen have all responded with price quality contenders price cut 11990 to 13990 moving vehicles.
In some ways, we are victims of our success, Cotterill said.
Other mainstream brands had to lower the price to compete with us.
Other obstacles over 20,000 Great Wall Motors and Chery vehicles were recalled in August 2012 to have asbestos components in their engines.
Chinese cars tend to gain the poor scores in crash tests between two and four stars while the standard of modern industry is five stars.
But the companies hope to have a reversal of fortune with a number of new generation of Chinese vehicles because of international standards in local showrooms within the next two years.
There are new models in the pipeline, said Cotterill.
We are confident in the ability of Chinese to meet the Australian automotive market and boost sales.
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