‘08 NAIAS: China’s BYD Motors Brings ‘Game Changing’ Hybrid to Detroit
Until about five years ago, Chinese manufacturer BYD wasn’t even in the automobile business, building its reputation as the world’s largest producer of rechargeable batteries instead. That history goes a long way to explaining the fascinating F6DM dual mode hybrid that BYD Motors brought to the Detroit Auto Show this year.
BYD is making some pretty amazing claims of its hybrid F6, a car that bears an uncanny resemblance to a Honda Accord, saying that its new ferrous battery is a “game changing
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2008 NAIAS Coverage
trustable? i don't think. just claim.
Chinese carmakers do not take a good reputation as their tech always steal from others
detroit9000
Baste your dog? Tiger versus Big Yellow Dragon?
There is nothing beautiful about leveraging labor to lower price at the expense of human rights. The Chinese garnish my contempt.
Buy your cars from companies that pay taxes that send kids to good schools.
Jonathan Fung
This car wins. Easily the highlight of the show. Over the ZR-1, tops the Furai, and even better than the R8 V12 TDI or the ABAT that I love so much. And no, that is not sarcasm. Check it out.
http://jalopnik.com/344806/detroit-auto-show-world-exclusive-surreal-ill...
Major props to BYD for having the gall to pull that stunt. Great way to stand behind your product and promote what would otherwise have been a car which nobody would have taken another look at. I would have loved to be the writer from Jalopnik that got that first test drive.
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[...] focus on the lower levels turned to the Chinese automakers. Of the four present (ChangFeng, Geely, BYD and Tang Hua), only Geely and Changfeng had their products open for public sampling. Visitors [...]
smokefreak2003
detroit9000. The Chinese educational system is 20 places ahead in ranking over the American system. Japanese and Korean Labor is cheaper than Chinese Labor based on currency exchange rates. People talk about fair trade in terms of China. However, we have a hypocritical foreign trade policy here. The currency exchange rate with China is actually overestimated, and the rates with Japan and Korea are underestimated. If everything was fair, then even a Fit or an Accent would cost more than $50,000 US. Then again, Japanese and Korean cars are not as potent a threat as the Presence of Chinese cars here. Toyots may be the #1 contender globallty for GM. But Chinese carmakers in 20-25 years will have the capacity to sell more cars just in America then GM and or Toyota can globally. Plus, Chinese cars will nuke the used car market here. That might be good news for new American, Korean, Japanese, and European car buyers. They would have to be made a lot better and filled with top trimmings and garnishes, just for the established carmakers to stay in business. The Chiense ownership of the low end of the market would actually start a race between all of the established makers. I think that would add to the greater diversity of available cars for all segments in America. It will be like the Market Pre-1970 before the American Big-3 ate up the smaller brands in mergers, buyouts, or financial collapses.
Korea= 67 won to $1 US
Japan=128 yen to $1 US
China= 8 Yuan Rimimbi to $1 US
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