Chinese Electric Cars Coming To Costco, Wal-Mart
GS Motors is hurrying to get the first Chinese cars to America via Mexico—but they are not alone. BYD (Build Your Dreams) showed plug-in hybrid and electric model in Detroit last month and promised to bring them to the US as early as next year.
Many of China’s 80 or so auto companies have made similar gestures, with varying degrees of seriousness.
FAW also produces the Miles ZX40, a small van-style neighborhood electric vehicle, developed by Miles Electric Vehicles, based on Santa Monica, Calif. Miles Electric started selling its small electric truck in 2007, raising $15 million last year to further research and development.
While Ligocki and other industry executives believe Chinese cars will inevitably enter the US market, a lot of these plans have halted due to the economy.
Source: Hybrid Cars
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/