No, it’s not any make of car that you would be likely to guess. Additionally, Canada is the only North American nation where the cars are being sold at this point. For the somewhat surprising (at least, to me) information, take a look at: [image] First Chinese Car Goes On Sale In North …

I guess that confirms that the automobile industry is truely, totally global now. The days of knowing where a vehicle is built by its maker or model have disappeared in our rear view mirrors.

“The days of knowing where a vehicle is built by its maker or model have disappeared in our rear view mirrors” As the article said, just look at the VIN. Someone like you, SMB, can easily ferret out where a car came from. I wonder what "“Fit” means in Chinese?

And good old John Deere has been making lines of it 's tractors in India for more then twenty years. This is nothing new, but the scale of in breeding is changing. Now, heck it’s been going on for ever…

The VIN might tell you where it was assembled, but it won’t tell you where “it” came from b/c there are so many its in the car. So it might be assembled someplace but the parts are globally sourced. But the global economy is not new - as dagosa noted. And its even way older than John Deere’s fora…

The backlash has started…The United Steel Workers have filed several complaints alleging China has violated trade agreements by subsidizing industries that produce auto parts for export to the U.S. and dumping them here at below cost pricing…The Obama administration has upheld similar complaints of …

20 years ago when the US had a bigger economy then China and much of China’s industry relied on the US…THEN we could have forced China to change it’s ways. But now with China having a bigger economy (or at least faster growing)…we need them more then they need us.

Corporate Politics has convinced Americans that Duties & Tariffs levied against imports are the most terrible, evil, thing in the world… But from 1776 until 1913, it was the revenue collected from Duties and Tariffs that ran our entire Government…No income taxes, no sales taxes…Buy today, in the era…

Soon to be on sale at you local Walmart Super store. I thought I saw a year or so ago that they were just taking popular European models and copying them. Kind of like they have done with everything else. Doesn’t mean the bolts won’t break or they’ll last any better than the no name tools, but th…

I would find it very hard to disagree with any of the sentiments expressed by Caddyman, above.

Chinese-made cars now offered for sale in North America!

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the_same_mountainbike February 3, 2012, 11:38pm 7

And we will do WHAT again???

China’s history on complying with trade agreements is about as compliant as Iran’s is with not creating nuclear wepons, or North Korea’s is with respecting the autonomy of South Korea.

I don’t have an answer to offer, but I don’t think anything we can do will make China change its ways.

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