Chinese Vehicles
Would a Chinese vehicle have quality on par with the U.S. vehicle? And what would the implications be both from a quality and perception if one of the former Big Three were purchased by a Chinese co...
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jshupe wrote:
Chinese factories build to specification. The reason you find so many poor quality items coming out of China is because consumers want items as inexpensively as possible, and companies are shipping production over there with the minimum specifications they can get away with. Some things made in China are of good quality, but you pay for it, just like you would pay more for an item of similar quality made here in the states.
There are a few exceptions, like ball point pens, where Chinese manufacturing wasn't able to reliably produce high quality tips until very recently. With something like an automobile, where production is fairly well defined and streamlined there already, with many imported parts (to China, from Japan, Germany, and others), this goes back to whatever tolerances and specifications are sent over by the companies placing the orders. Don't look at the manufacturing location and turn it away, but look at the company placing the orders from China, and the product itself on the lot. That'll tell you miles more than the origin sticker.
So those toys were speced to have lead paint? This argument that china builds to spec and the specs are wrong is BS! They will build to whatever suits them.
