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the_liberal_grandpa

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5. I'd rather own a Chinese BYD electric car than any Tesla

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2026, 11:26 AM

Saturday

American built crappy cars like the Chevy Vega and Ford Pinto in the 70's but new Japanese cars
like Datsun, Toyota and Honda started showing up here and became super poplular as the are today.
The competition was good for American cars and they started building them better to compete.

Chinese cars like BYD would do the same thing for our crappy electric American car market.

Canada is bringing them in slowly because they are affordable.

We should do the same.

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Mercedes-Benz may be shut out of U.S. market under bill aimed at Chinese automaker ownership [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Saturday OP

Mercedes Benz vehicles built in Alabama may be banned in the U.S. mahatmakanejeeves Saturday #1

The fuck of it all is that some of the Chinese cars are better than anything we can buy here. 3Hotdogs Saturday #2

Bingo! OldBaldy1701E Saturday #3

What Chinese manufactured vehicles are better than anything else currently sold in the US ? MichMan Saturday #4

I'd rather own a Chinese BYD electric car than any Tesla the_liberal_grandpa Saturday #5