Why China fears AMERICA - 2016 Full Documentary
Well, it finally happened Swedes and Chinese gathered to build a car for us mericans The Detroit News reported last week that Volvo would export an extended length S60 sedan called the S60 Register from a factory in Chengdu , a city in southwest China surprise, surprise, Volvo wants to sell about 5,000 of them per year in the U S.
Technically, this is not the first made in China car for the US We saw a few isolated projects, Coda Automotive electric sedan short of the Chicago Uber test fleet of electric cars BYD But if Volvo reached close of sales targets, it will dwarf previous efforts.
The writing was on the wall from Chinese automaker Geely bought Volvo from Ford in 2010 Chengdu, a city with over 14 million inhabitants, is where Volvo and Geely have a 3-year-old assembly plant .
Are Americans welcome a new wave of cars built by Chinese experts think so, provided that there aren t any quality problems.
Today, you can test 100 people, and I'm sure that 99 of them say they do not know what real country their car came, said Sam Fiorani, AutoForecast Solutions vice president of global vehicle forecasting today many electronic devices come from China many toys are from China unless Sá remember about it, most people do not know or don t care that is China.
Volvo will put a great effort to assure consumers that quality, according to The Detroit News Chengdu Each car will get five hours of track testing, and Volvo plans to tear apart a car every month to examine the quality of welding and more than many of its more consideration that the manufacturer gives the cars he built in Sweden and Belgium.
S60 Registration gets 3 additional square inch leg over the back seat S60 standard length that would give him more rear legroom that Volvo S80 larger, although it is still far from many luxury sedans full size .
Volvo executives said at the Detroit News that the move to the automaker Geely released years of shared parts Ford and Geely would keep the interference of a minimum of two years after purchase, Volvo said it would spend 11 billion of its own funding, not s Geely, create a unique technology and manufacturing that seems to materialize in the coming weeks, Volvo will announce a location for its first passenger car assembly plant in the U S.
Fiorani suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg Chinese automakers have spoken seriously to enter the United States for nearly a decade, but the quality of the car was spotted Now Volvo opens the way forward , selling a vehicle brand Geely here, although the Swedes develop.
If they came with, say, a Volvo entry as Geely under the Geely brand instead of Volvo, we have a brand of two-tier Fiorani said Chinese automakers have acquired these Western companies for technology and market penetration, and Geely is in the best position because they have a comprehensive network of global distributors they have a distribution ready to go All they have to do is to have the product ready for Western Europe and North America.
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