GM Plans to Sell Chinese Built Cars in the US

Idiots. Don't matter I never did and never will buy their products anyway.

If GM is so pethetic that they have to get cars from China, I say let them go bankrupt. Bring those car over would only dangering american citizens. For god sake the safty rating on those cars are not even one star! On top of that i thought GM is suppose to be an American own company with American workers, now if they bring in cars that are made using chinese workers then there's no point of keeping them around cuz we can easily find a better quality import car to buy

If GM is so pethetic that they have to get cars from China, I say let them go bankrupt. Bring those car over would only dangering american citizens. For god sake the safty rating on those cars are not even one star! On top of that i thought GM is suppose to be an American own company with American workers, now if they bring in cars that are made using chinese workers then there's no point of keeping them around cuz we can easily find a better quality import car to buy

Not that I don't already know the answer, but have either of you morons bothered to check out the vehicles that GM builds in China?

Just wondering because you'd be the first two people i've heard who complained when they learned that those may be coming to the US.

hint: they're leaps and bounds nicer than the ones currently sold here.

@Kevin:

Correct you are. GM is actually (or was recently) the number one auto manufacturer in China.

The real question is, can they build them to the safety standards required in the US? If so, then I think it's a bit early to call them unsafe.

I don't want to get too hysterical over 1.6% of their cars being made in China, but I do hope that US Tax dollars were not used to bail out GM so that they could keep their factories in China operating.

Smart move, labor is cheep in china. The Chinese worker will work hard for a lower wage than the fat lazy corrupt UAW auto worker... Maybe the UAW will die then GM can come back...
I would rather buy a car made by a Chinese worker than a UAW worker...

Question is since Obama is owned by the UAW, will Obama let GM make cars in China?

Smart move, labor is cheep in china. The Chinese worker will work hard for a lower wage than the fat lazy corrupt UAW auto worker... Maybe the UAW will die then GM can come back...
I would rather buy a car made by a Chinese worker than a UAW worker...

Question is since Obama is owned by the UAW, will Obama let GM make cars in China?

Smart move, labor is cheep in china. The Chinese worker will work hard for a lower wage than the fat lazy corrupt UAW auto worker... Maybe the UAW will die then GM can come back...
I would rather buy a car made by a Chinese worker than a UAW worker...

Question is since Obama is owned by the UAW, will Obama let GM make cars in China?

To meet the US standards, the price of the car will be goes up by how much when also factor in all the other cost?

I m from other country working for a company in US, but I still want to see my tax dollar spending wisely

Lol, China & GM = Ultimate Quality Force.

Hehe, I don't wanna laugh 'cause if i do, i won't be able to stop.

They're not going to import the Chinese models here. They'll just move some of their manufacturing over there, making the same cars we already have. This is basically just outsourcing. The UAW can blame themselves for their jobs going overseas.

Only if they get approval of the man in charge of corporate america (and soon in charge of your life) - Barrack Obama.

I read this headline and thought, you GM boys are probably crying in your beer!.....then I read where GMAC is going to be the primary credit provider to Chrysler. Maybe I should have been a Ford man all along.

No, I haven't researched the vehicles GM builds in China, but I'll look into it. I wasn't aware they did.

If the quality is as good as the Aveo, then they can keep them.

@ joemama:

I think I just lost 19,436,263,041.397 brain cells by merely reading your post. I'd love to explain why such a phenomenon occurred, but I believe others have taken the words out of my mouth...that, and the lack of adequate brain cells prevents me from elaborating...so I will leave it at that.

All I can say is that, perhaps ten years or so from now, China's automobiles will meet the industry standard in terms of quality and reliability. Bear in mind that China has a lot of "catching up" to do; China's auto industry is still in its infantile stage.

On a side-note: Yes, Buicks have gone up substantially in both quality and reliability. Yes, Chinese-built cars destined for American shores will be held to a higher standard than those being sold on Chinese soil. AND YES, Chinese-built Buicks are just as reliable as the industry average.

The problem with "made in China" TRidiots is in my newspaper on a regular basis. Where to start? Oh yeah, now i remember!

Sub-standard food products tainted with chemicals to make them pass minimum quality requirements. Mmmmm. Melamine! Tasty stuff! My dog didn't need his kidneys. Those are like an appendix, right? Just useless organs. Chow down buddy!

Toys and other ordinary products tainted with lead. My kids don't mind absorbing heavy metals from their toys. The brain is like an appendix, right? Just useless organs. Have fun buddy!

And the latest bit of goodness from China. Drywall with the amazing ability to destroy copper and harm humans. Drywall TRidiots. The recipe for drywall is pretty simple. How the hell do you wind up with a product that exudes fumes capable of tarnishing metal and causing respiratory illnesses?

So, in a bit of irony you are going to get the same attitude from Americans towards Chinese products and you do with Americans and a Pontiac Aztec. Perhaps in ten years or more that will change. But considering the competition on US shores right now in the auto market, Chinese made Buicks had better run on water and silver dollars fall out of the tailpipe for them to grab any real market share.

"Sub-standard food products tainted with chemicals to make them pass minimum quality requirements. Mmmmm. Melamine! Tasty stuff! My dog didn't need his kidneys. Those are like an appendix, right? Just useless organs. Chow down buddy!

Toys and other ordinary products tainted with lead. My kids don't mind absorbing heavy metals from their toys. The brain is like an appendix, right? Just useless organs. Have fun buddy!

And the latest bit of goodness from China. Drywall with the amazing ability to destroy copper and harm humans. Drywall TRidiots. The recipe for drywall is pretty simple. How the hell do you wind up with a product that exudes fumes capable of tarnishing metal and causing respiratory illnesses?"

I agree with this 100 %. China can not be trusted to make things that do not harm people. They want to be part of 21st Century, but their standards are stuck in 1949.

With all the whoopla in this country about "Buy American" A Buick built in China will go over about as well as a Fart In Church, no matter how good it looks.

For once I agree 100% with you, Trooper Bri.

And what do Americans make? Cluster bombs & land mines that kill civilians decades after they're indiscriminately dropped & placed during illegal wars. Go through your house (or trailer) and find all the items you have that are made in China you hypocrites.

People still stuck on where cars are assembled and not where the parts come from. An Exec from Ford recently wrote a letter about a mayor in New York buying Nissan Altima Hybrids for police cars because they are, "eco friendly and 'Made In-America' unlike the Crown Vic." What the dumb mayor fails to release and what a Ford exec pointed out is that while the Nissan may be assembled in America, it only has about 20% of it parts made in America, unlike Ford, GM, and Chrysler which have about 80% of their parts made in the US. Made in and assembled in are quickly becoming two very different things.

Now you really think if GM and Chrysler go away, Ford will be able to pick up all that supplier slack? The imports certainly won't. Already saw the effect with the Camaro SS being recalled do to supplier going out of business. Imports also employ about 50,000 workers in the US compared to the 400,000 or so employed by the Big 3. Then, on top of that, the Big 3 have about 800,000 or retirees on pension/health care from the Big 3, unlike the whooping 10,000 or so from the imports, and those are just direct numbers and don't include supplier numbers.

I hope all UAW members lose their jobs.

please i hope they don't bring in rebadged cherys or tigos or other chinese brands. with parts shaking badly once you reach 100kmh (or 60mph) and crumple zones which include everything up to the B-pillar, one would think that they were trying to implement population control on the US.

I don't understand how people can take a few bad products from China and say "Hey those were bad, therefore ALL products from China are bad, even if they are made by American owned companies, not the shady Chinese ones that made those bad products". Just because you pick a different patch of soil, doesn't inherently make the products made there worse. And if retard American high school dropout UAW members can do those jobs, so can the workers in China.

Ah, so this is what the bailout money was for. Outsource yet more freaking jobs, import yet more garbage.

Nevermind the figures, it's a question of principle. Once the imports start coming in, what's stopping the figures from changing (read: increasing)?

I'm not saying everything from China is junk. Comparing the percentage of safe stuff that we import versus the dangerous stuff that initially creeps in under radar is probably a very low number.

But the products that do get highlighted in our media lately are such elementary products that you cannot help but be suspicious of what is happening in China on a higher level. They are simply growing faster than they can keep track of these standards. I've said it before, and it's worth repeating. I would gladly pay more for a product made in America knowing it already meets our federal standards and keeps my neighbor working opposed to getting a product from China (or wherever) that is blatantly dangerous. And dangerous for obvious reasons.
They are either unable to legitimately compete on a global scale with other economies on their terms, or simply desperate to do it no matter what the long term cost. Either way, the consumer loses.

I was simply making a somewhat sarcastic comparison between the highlighted products of one nation and certain products of a company in the US. Granted, we do make crap on occasion, but at least you know it doesn't require dialysis or respiratory aids.

Thank God we can always eat American grown peanuts and pistachios.