[magellan]

Originally Posted by Bydand

Very nice. I thought that Bricklins vision for Chery was a bit optimistic at first. Selling SUV's that would compete with the offerings of BMW for $20,000 and targeting 250,000 units sold the first full year. Shoot Subaru doesn't sell that many yet I don't think.

I can't see fitting my family of five in it, but I'm sure it will appeal to a lot of buyers at that price. If they put a 10 year full warranty on it like Hyundai, it will be a good seller. I thought I read recently though that Chery was going to sit out 2008 and wait until at least 2009 to fully enter the U.S. market?

[Coldjensens]

Cool. Is it painted with lead based paint?

I do not think you will see a lot of these in Michigan. I had a Honda CVCC in 1981 and I got run off the road regularly by people who would scream "Buy American ***hole" Eventually someone pushed me off the road and into a tree. Small Hondas and trees were a bad combination back then (probably still are).

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

Cool. Is it painted with lead based paint?

You owe me a keyboard! Awful to read something this funny while drinking a Pepsi. LOL

[sfbc]

I had people tell me that about my subaru, I would tell them that my subaru was made in Milan Ill. and their buick was made in mexico. Who is giving americans jobs?
The local paper just has a cartoon that showed a man getting out of his new 9ft high suv, his wife is looking at him like what are you thinking? he says but its a hybred, the caption says, Detroit finaly gets it.lol. They keep coming out with crap like the hemi and 400hp dodge charger and carp people are not buying. I went with my brother to a toyota lot and they are selling out of the yaris and carolla, they will not deal on price and do not keep them in stock for long.
Detroit is just not getting it through their thick skulls, that making a electric car that has a 50 mi on a charge run is not something any one will give you a nickel for.
The prius on the other hand that can get from 55 to 65 mpg is a great short term fix to high gas prices.
As for those who say bigger is safer they do not understand the making of a car. Iaccoa said it in his new book bigger is not safer. better thought out for safty is safer, weight does not = saftey.
I am afraid detroit has seen its day and the car industry is moving to other countrys and states.
Unless they get off the pot and fast, and it does not seem like they have a clue, they are lost at sea. and SOL

[M TYPE X]

Economy, weight, and safety are major issues, but GM/Ford/Chrysler have difficulty with creating attractive exterior and mechanical designs that are durable or reliable. Chryslers, Dodges, and Jeeps are not the bottom-basement in resale value for no reason.

[stock66]

Originally Posted by sfbc

I had people tell me that about my subaru, I would tell them that my subaru was made in Milan Ill. and their buick was made in mexico. Who is giving americans jobs?
The local paper just has a cartoon that showed a man getting out of his new 9ft high suv, his wife is looking at him like what are you thinking? he says but its a hybred, the caption says, Detroit finaly gets it.lol. They keep coming out with crap like the hemi and 400hp dodge charger and carp people are not buying. I went with my brother to a toyota lot and they are selling out of the yaris and carolla, they will not deal on price and do not keep them in stock for long.
Detroit is just not getting it through their thick skulls, that making a electric car that has a 50 mi on a charge run is not something any one will give you a nickel for.
The prius on the other hand that can get from 55 to 65 mpg is a great short term fix to high gas prices.
As for those who say bigger is safer they do not understand the making of a car. Iaccoa said it in his new book bigger is not safer. better thought out for safty is safer, weight does not = saftey.
I am afraid detroit has seen its day and the car industry is moving to other countrys and states.
Unless they get off the pot and fast, and it does not seem like they have a clue, they are lost at sea. and SOL

I agree with you but at the same time do they give us what we want?
Lets go back to '73-74 with the oil embargo and gas crisis. All those monstrous cars that would not sell. You could get Polaras, Galaxies, Imapalas, Caprices, New Yorkers, etc. for about a penny a pound.
Everyone screamed for smaller cars but once the crisis was past we moved back up to ridiculous vehicles like Navigators, Armadas and Hummers. I don't think anyone had a gun to their head to buy those vehicles. Auto companies will follow the $$, if no one is buying the product the product has to change doesn't it?

[Cliffie]

I read in a magazine that every British home is required to be carbon-negative by 2012. And yet you still see Hummers on the road in this country.

[UpperPeninsulaRon]

"I read in a magazine that every British home is required to be carbon-negative by 2012. And yet you still see Hummers on the road in this country."

Once again, this is a ploy for the masses to be forced to play by the rules, but the select few do not. Our Nobel Prize Award recipient just got a great gig in helping financial companies pick out stocks that are green. Let's sort this out:

- He gets a great salary picking out stocks
- He uses a part of his great salary to buy carbon credits (what a scam!)
- He continues to ride in limos, fly inn private jets, and gets to tell the rest of us how to live

Does anyone else out there see any hyprocracy in this?

[TaxBait]

Originally Posted by Cliffie

I read in a magazine that every British home is required to be carbon-negative by 2012....

That's funny considering the average British home is probably 100 years old. Unless they've found a geothermal source to heat those drafty, poorly insulated pieces of junk there is absolutely no way they can achieve that.

[stock66]

Originally Posted by UpperPeninsulaRon

Does anyone else out there see any hyprocracy in this?

ROFL, so do you think things are "fair?" The rich never have the same rules as the rest of us, where have you been?