I test cars for a company that does work related to the EPA and if meeting the EPA standards consistently is evidence of a good automotive product, frizzella is correct.
Here are a couple of links and parts from articles related to this issue.
The cars are coming and it is going to be more competition for American made vehicles and in turn jobs.
Further it appears that one mans parts "problem" is another mans success story.
http://www.newsworld.co.kr/cont/0501/62.html
AUTOX brands in China and install agents in the United States and Canada.
The 2005 business plan calls for a 20 percent raise in existing buyers' sales, and the company is to participate two international exhibitions - one in Europe and the other in the United States
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/s...10/story1.html
"Frankly I don't see it happening for at least five years," he said.
"I think (Chinese imports) will eventually have an influence. There's no question about it. And if they can produce competitive cars with lower costs, they can be successful," he said. "But I don't see them as a major threat unless they also have a pretty decent product. Americans like the idea of paying a small amount for a car, but not unless it is a pretty good car."
Holoman pointed out how many years it took ***anese and Korean automakers, now among the most successful in U.S. sales, to raise the quality of their products and dealerships to levels where Americans wanted to buy their cars.
"Manufacturing in the U.S. in virtually every sector is facing a constant challenge to continue to keep quality up to justify the higher prices we command because of our labor costs," he said "(Chinese imports) are one more challenge."
Donovan said U.S. policy, which he described as "hand-off," must be changed to prevent the loss of U.S. automotive jobs to a foreign nation with 1.3 billion people, a gross domestic product in 2003 of $1.4 trillion and a strategy to overtake the United States economy by 2050.
Chinese cars
