Are YOU Ready To Follow As China Sets The Design Trends Of The Future?

Are YOU Ready To Follow As China Sets The Design Trends Of The Future?
After a century in which American tastes largely set the course of the global automotive market, China is poised to increasingly take on the role of global trendsetter.

Automakers say just as car buyers around the world saw more sport utility vehicles and cup holders because that was what Americans wanted, they will probably see more features that the Chinese favor, from greater fuel efficiency to more comfortable backseats.

Vehicle sales in China passed those in the United States in the first quarter, as China has weathered the global downturn much better, and there are growing signs that China will become the leading market in the long term as well. Those signs were not lost on automotive executives from around the world who gathered Monday for the opening of the Shanghai auto show.

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_43LE_43LE - 4/20/2009 5:00:50 PM
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Hmmmm, I wonder if we'll start seeing chopstick holders?


_43LE_43LE - 4/21/2009 9:42:24 AM
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OMG, I happen to be Chinese and it was a funny comment, okay?


LexSucksLexSucks - 4/20/2009 5:08:13 PM
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"China Sets The Design Trends Of The Future?"

- Says who?


91z4me91z4me - 4/20/2009 5:48:53 PM
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The auto companies that will be producing designs for the biggest, most profitable market on the planet.


dlindlin - 4/20/2009 9:52:32 PM
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I wonder why this site keeps posting something this stupid.

~Great job, 009!~


0to600to60 - 4/20/2009 5:57:51 PM
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Dont they just copy other designs? So technically I dont think they will set the trend. They will likely follow it.


DiamondJimDiamondJim - 4/20/2009 6:04:25 PM
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like the great investor, Jim Rogers, says, being in China right now, is like being in New York City in 1909.


cocococococo - 4/20/2009 6:31:07 PM
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Right now, Chinese cars tend to look cheap or like clones of other cars. In ten or fifteen years, that could be the other way around.


topneurotopneuro - 4/20/2009 6:38:02 PM
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Remember Made in Japan junk from the 1950's?
Of course not, your Dad was in your Grandpa left testicle.
China and India were there only a decade ago.
Japan and Korea and other counties have change a lot since in all aspects of society, industry and cars.
Poland cheap labor is stealing jobs from Ireland.
China still has big time quality control and corruption issues in manufacturing.
They will eventually overcome that like everybody else.
Read "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman.



WimmerWimmer - 4/20/2009 7:16:07 PM
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"Read "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman."


Good book. I'm currently reading "Latitudes and Longitudes" by Thomas J. Friedman!


abcdabcd - 4/21/2009 11:48:56 AM
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topneuro, you should also add:
Remember Made in Germany cheap and nasty products from nineteenth century?:

http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob49.html


Yonder7Yonder7 - 4/20/2009 7:14:45 PM
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topneuro: When amercans or europeans como to my country, specialy to buy electronics....If those are not Japanese, they decline to buy it. That also is starting to happen with the cars...and yes soon or later the chinese cars will be side by side with best of the best....Still if they are communist...I won´t but any car from....I prefer to support democracy even if the cars are not so good...


bimmerMeister999bimmerMeister999 - 4/20/2009 9:09:23 PM
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Chinese the trendsetters?? HAHAHA! Someone celebrated 4/20 a little too much.


sectorsector - 4/20/2009 11:59:27 PM
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Design trends? Haha, do they even know what design means? you mean copy don't you? very badly might I add.

never mind the fact that Chinese cars completely failed the Euro NCAP crash test standards recently with a big ZERO star rating... you'd better pray these death traps don't make it on to our shores.

Remember these are the same people who deliberately taint baby formulas with melamine to artificially beef up the "protein" content. They'll make typical BMW cost cutting look like it was done by second graders.

Their cars are so ugly, they should just call it the Shaghai Freak Show.


wins555wins555 - 4/21/2009 12:17:17 AM
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Years from now, (say 20 years) all of you will be telling your grandchildren how China was just copying designs when they began and look at where they are now. History repeats itself in some form or another. Its just how it is.


wins555wins555 - 4/21/2009 12:17:45 AM
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You have to start somewhere.


topneurotopneuro - 4/21/2009 1:52:03 PM
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Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism
by Thomas J. Friedman
Yes, the germans had some growing pains, but 19th century?
I am old but not dead.
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