Chinese cars are so far ahead of the rest of the world and most people have no idea it even happened. People take time to update their mental models of the world but it will happen.
In July we flew via Kuala Lumpur. They had a special service of BMW i7s to transfer between terminals which we took. It was nice. But I’ve since seen 10 cars in #Vietnam that were nicer, all from China (Vietnamese cars aren’t there yet).
It takes time for preferences to change but Germany is already dead, as is the rest of Europe bar supercars, and the US won’t be far behind. Japan might survive with Toyota, Worst Korea is 50/50.
China is going to eat all their lunches unless protectionism makes the biggest comeback of all time and even then, you’ll likely pay more to get the Chinese car if you can and are shopping for bang-for-buck because they’re just miles ahead of Western car tech.
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I've been meaning to better understand what's going on with their car market. Hear rumors and heard some startling stats about growth in last 5 years, but the firewall or echo chamber I have is too strong
(For getting a sense via osmosis, so I'll have to dig into it sometime)
They had a long run up, but they nailed automating manufacturing whilst the big car making countries are stuck with enormous labour forces they can’t get rid of and can’t afford the capex for automation and couldn’t get it through politically.
Think about the Japanese and Kaizen - they were so fucking proud of that shit. China just built robots which did everything way better than their principled human-oriented operations.
People still think China is all cheap slave labour - it’s not. They’re way ahead on automation and robotics.
We’re starting to get their robots in shops and hotels in Vietnam now despite labour here being extremely cheap; it’s early, but so many jobs are going to go away over the next 10 years.
It’s showed up in cars first but be ready for China to create dominate entirely new industries like the US used to. That’s coming next.
This is China.
Now go lookup what a Volkswagen or Ford factory looks like today and you’ll see the difference immediately
https://v.nostr.build/pbCJQXsHFMuStM0T.mp4
I may be the odd man out, these cars (nor the i7) don’t excite me at all. What do you do with them? Wait in traffic?
Ah, see there’s a big difference in Asia.
If you can afford this car, you can afford a driver. He shuttles your family around as needed.
You’re not actually driving this thing - you’re enjoying the luxury seating and entertainment system whilst someone does the driving for you; until that gets automated of course..
The quality is lower but for the price, it's almost free
I see. I’d rather be in nature, than in traffic.
I can fix my roll up windows myself with a screwdriver. What do you do when all that crap malfunctions? (And it will)
It's not being ahead, if your lost too.
他应该没关注国产车自燃的新闻吧😂
You take it to a repair shop and pay less to get it fixed than it would cost for you to replace your screwdriver
+1500$ 🤡
You’re applying western prices to Asian markets.
In Asia, most things are 3X-100X cheaper. Few things like gold and oil and iPhones are essentially on global prices, but things like services are WAY cheaper and anything entirely locally produced is too.