ChangFeng Considering U.S. Production?
Chairman Li Jianxin, the head of Chinese automaker ChangFeng, says that the company is considering building a manufacturing facility in the U.S. as part of its plans to begin sales in this country by next year.
The Chairman was either slightly confused or mildly dodging at ChangFeng’s NAIAS press conference yesterday, when asked directly when his company would begin U.S. sales. Through a translator the Chairman said the company was still on track to make good on last year’s speculation of a U.S. launch in three to five years, eventually saying that 2009 was the goal.
(Click through the jump to read on about ChengFeng's U.S. plans.)
Later in an interview Li would say that “Building an assembly line is one of the options,
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Rex
I hope that start building them in Michigan. Finally Global Manufacturing can benefit America.
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Jonathan Fung
Is Chinese entry imminent? Yes. It'll be a bit of trouble for them to set up a dealer network (unless they really do end up selling them out of Walmarts) and for them to get the emissions and safety up to American standards. But they will come. It's just a matter of when.
smokefreak2003
Yeah but johnathan. What American, Korean, European or Japanese car sold here gets the same same high MPG numbers these Chinese cars are supposed to get. Remember, the American auto industry tried to stop the latest CAFE standards becuase they would not be able to compete with the Chinese in that time. it is too late to fix emision based Climate Change. However, we still have to deal with "Life after Petroleum." The Chinese are father along with solving that prbolem tha most of the other makes are.
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