Chinese automakers want to come to US. They could be here fairly soon

[angrycaveman]

37. competition is the only thing that forces quality

Can you imagine the junk we would be forced to buy today without the Japanese? But it wasn't all roses and fanfare at first and I'm sure the Chinese car makes will face the same harassments as the 70/80s.

early U.S. owners of Japanese cars, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, faced harassment and anti-Japanese sentiment driven by industrial decline in Detroit, trade tensions, and the "Buy American" movement. Japanese cars were initially dismissed as poor quality "tin boxes" in the 1960s, but as they became popular for fuel efficiency and reliability during the 1970s oil crisis, they became targets for public destruction by proponents of domestic automakers.

Firm believer that the Japanese car makers had a direct impact on forcing American car makers to think about quality and price, and it was for the better. The same will apply here.

And America can still compete. I love the story coming from Slate: https://www.slate.auto/en