Chinese Electric Cars Coming To Costco, Wal-Mart
While seeing Chinese cars on display at the Detroit Auto Show has become somewhat common these past few years, there is one place they were hardly expected: Costco!
Yes, the big-box discount store Costco could be selling the Chinese-designed and Mexican-built vehicles says one auto exec. The CEO of GS Motors — Kathleen Ligocki — told the Hybrid Cars website that she thinks the US will follow in Mexico’s footsteps. GS Motors sold 4,000 China-made vehicles in Mexico last year at…Costco and Wal-Mart.
My first thought: If they are sold at Costco, will they come individually wrapped and in a pack of ten?
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Auto critics have ridiculed the cars for both design and quality flaws. But hey, Japanese and Korean cars once received the same treatment. And I think it’s safe to say that Honda and Toyota got their footing.
Ligocki, who previously served as president of Ford of Mexico, said the next step is for Chinese-designed cars to go into production in Mexico in 2010. She expects them to hit the American market about five years later. Hybrid Cars reported that GS is building an assembly plant in Michoacan, Mexico, with the China-based FAW Group who has formed joint ventures with automobile giants such as Volkswagen, Toyota and Mazda.
GS Motors will launch the FAW brand in Mexico this year with the F1 Hatchback, an entry-level car sold for under $5,500. FAW, one of the largest Chinese automakers, is allied in China with Volkswagen.
In Mexico, FAW cars are not being sold in Costco nor Wal-Mart… They are being sold at “Elektra” and they start at $6,297 USD.
Buy n’ Large!!!
I would consider such a car if it were sold at Wal-Mart. Hand me an extended warrenty and I’m good.
Too little too late, Obama and the office of people who know better than you, have the solution!
From today, GM means Government Motors. Obama said, we must build and use only the next generation of efficient and environmentally friendly (GM) cars. The US Government will also honor warranties of old clunkers made by the old GM & Chrysler. After tax filing time, the IRS offices will repair transmissions and drive trains, free of charge. I am completely elated, no more car magazines to read, I just go to the nearest Government office and buy the new car. It will come in one model and one color, green of course.
Awesome!
This story is riddled with inaccuracies and bad conjecture. Even the headline is a false statement as we discover later in the article with, “Yes, the big-box discount store Costco could be selling the Chinese-designed and Mexican-built vehicles says one auto exec.”
There’s no description attached to the car photo or any features described.
This is the worst reporting I have ever witnessed.
great idea!
The loss of GM and Chrysler will cause a gut-busting reality check on the American Dream, and reduce pay envelop expectations for all - even the mighty doctor and lawyer class! They, of course, will still drive huge dangerous gas guzzlers from Europe, while we - “The Proletariat” will be reduced to battery/gas eco-boxes and the buses and low wage part-time service industry jobs, complete with edge of town shanties, veggie patches and weekends of scavenging the dumps and ruins of cities for life’s necessities. Bush set the trap, Obama pushes us in and the uber-rich invested in the Shanghai markets car manufacturers long ago after selling their shares of GM at over $60.00 a share to the unsuspecting in the marketplace. Are the Chinese cars as crappy? Do they use planned obsolescence as a sales tool? Will there be constant “improvements” to keep us coming? Is this the same song and dance, with wider profit margins due to lower wages in manufacture, or do we get a better product? I doubt it. The same old fraudsters and shysters and shylocks are the primary financial backers, with the same goals - filling their pockets! Bend over, Yankee Doodle, and bring your own grease, that’s right, spread your cheeks now, for a new “Chinese” adventure!
Why the surprise at the marketing through Costco and Walmart?
Have you not looked for the manufacturer of the products that they now sell?
What surprises me is that they missed out on TARGET.
see the cars and prices in mexican currency at http://www.elektra-transportes.com/