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 …

“A few years ago, someone said that about Korea, and before that it was said of Japan. And before that, it was said of Germany.” And that was exactly true. For a while. It was also true of the Detroit 3 for a while. These days, most manufacturers selling the the USA build reliable cars and truck…

Although I would not rush out to buy a Chinese made car right now, it won’t be long before you’ll see many of them. That may start with low priced electric cars. The Chinese are already selling those for about $20,000 or less for a compact model. I’ve bought 3 Dell computers over the years; the fir…

During the Korean War, Koreans were largely bumpkins; especially in rural areas where the MASH unit operated. I met bumpkins in college on the east coast of the USA. Several had never been outside their county before they went to college.

The only foreign car that entered the US market in recent memory that was extremely unreliable was the Yugo. It was cheap…and very very unreliable.

That may be true, Mike, but the early Japanese models to enter the US were…pretty close to crap. My brother had the misfortune to own a Datsun SPL-310 (or 311?), made in 1967, and that car was essentially a total disaster. Nobody could ever figure out why the engine would crank, but not start, if…

I had Japanese cars as early as the 70’s. Though they were no where near as good as they are now, at least by then, they were no worse then the American and European cars they competed against.

Early Japanese vehicles were just slightly better mechanically then a comparable American vehicle back in the 70’s. But they also rusted out a LOT earlier. My wifes 1980 Datsun 510 was rusted out in 5 years.

Datsuns and later Nissans always had less quality in their rust protection. Even my wife’s Nissan is starting to rust out at the rocker panels. This car met all the rust perforation specs the government put out. The Toyota Corona was the first Japanese car in the 60s that was substantially better t…

Datsuns and later Nissans always had less quality in their rust protection. Even my wife’s Nissan is starting to rust out at the rocker panels. This car met all the rust perforation specs the government put out. I haven’t seen any problems in later vehicles from Toyota/Nissan or Honda (starting abo…

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Mike; there were also the Hyundai Pony (in the 80s), it did have a good engine but the rest was “fragile”.Hyundai learned very fast, but others, such as Renault (Le Car), and Fiat never bothered to find out what US buyers expected and demanded in a car.

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