How Long Until A Chinese Luxury Car Is Sitting In Your Driveway?

How about "when hell freezes over?"

Kidding aside, when China makes vehicles that compete well with the vehicles I'm interested it, and compete well on all/most criteria and not just price, then i will consider them. That time has not yet come. Not by a long shot. And there's no indication it'll happen in the next few years. China still has a ways to go with respect to auto manufacturing.

Actually - Since the "question" did not say - "Manufactured in China" - it just said Chinese - which would mean A Chinese owned company - then IT may have already happened IF agent 009 considers a Volvo to be a Luxury car (They are Chinese owned). I do not consider Volvo to be a Luxury car - I believe it competes with Buick and Audi and Infiniti and Lexus as second tier near-luxury vehicles. However - Buick also have a SUV that is made in China too (But they are not a Chinese owned company).

But this is how I suspect it will first happen - with one of the top tier companies that manufactures in China - bringing a model made in China to the USA - not by any real Chinese identified brand bringing in a car. AndI suspect most will not even know they bought a chinese made car.

TomM: According to your interpretation, I agree.

Just as a data point, the world's most popular single-engine piston aircraft, the Cirrus SR22, has a new big brother, a revolutionary single-engine, center-line thrust personal jet: the recently fully certified and in production Cirrus VisionJet SF50. Designed and built entirely by Americans in Duluth, MN. They're world famous for making the best products of their kind; technically advanced, standard ballistic full-frame parachute, glass cockpit, relatively easy to fly. It's a marvel. And it's American. Sort of.

In 2016 Cirrus was bought by a State Chinese aviation consortium.

100% Chinese owned. 100% designed, built, and managed by Americans.

I know this is a contentious point as to whether it's an American Company or a Chinese company. *I* see it as an American company, but I could be wrong. I don't see this as "The Chinese build the world's popular single-engine piston aircraft."

TomM, I saw a recent news item that the overwhelming majority of Buick Envision owners do not know their car was made in China. Separately, something like 2/3 of Americans did not know which wheels were driving their car.

With the Laws the way they are in China (Laws?) - Mercedes and BMW both manufacture cars there - as do Audi and Buick. I could see a car made for China in China being exported in limited amounts to other countries - and even the USA. The car manufacturers cannot overlook the lower cost of production (Ie profits). Rolls Royce once made cars here in the USA - but I would expect them to be among the only that do not make cars anywhere else but in England.

The Japanese and Koreans have not reached my driveway yet, so I would say it will be a while.

What is that "thing" that's the picture for this post? If this is pure Chinese design then they have a long way to go.

Oh, and does it come with Nexen tires?

How about "already" for every Envision owner?

I find the anti-Asian bigotry here hilarious. The Japanese aren't as good as the German, but superior is many ways. The same can be said of Hyundai/Kia products in the mainstream and the Genesis G80 and G90 will only disappoint automotive bigots.

To assume that the Chinese won't be "on game" when they arrive is IDIOCY.

..and there is no bigger idiot than you...

When the you rebut with bullying, you demonstrate your lack of intelligence which is why you cannot engage ideologically.

You obviously need me though and you obviously care tremendously about me.

If you didn't need me or care about me, you wouldn't respond.

Perhaps you need therapy.

Namaste.

Never. I do not buy Asian marques.