Care to dance? - Geely looking for partners
"We started off building and selling cheap cars, but now we are changing," says Geely Automobile Holdings Chairman Li Shufu at at Tokyo press conference. Geely is the purveyor of some of the most inexpensive cars in China, and now it's looking to sell in other markets. Citing Geely's great respect for Japanese manufacturers, Li expressed a desire to collaborate with them as Geely follows the trail they blazed over a generation ago. Competition in the Chinese auto market is cutthroat, and Geely has plans to double its capacity and add assembly plants in North America and Europe, too. Their goal is to sell 1 million cars per year by 2010, quite an increase from the 175,635 units they moved last year. [Source: Auto News - sub. req'd]
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cameron42985 4:09PM (10/26/2007)
Tata, maybe?
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Rick 4:50PM (10/26/2007)
So, they sold cheap and now they are changing...does that mean the cars won't be cheap any longer!?
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Yggdrasilly 4:16PM (10/26/2007)
"Let a thousand head-traumas bloom! Let a thousand frontal impacts contend!"
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geo.stewart 5:06PM (10/26/2007)
OF COURSE they want to partner, they could steal the design outright; now theywant to steal the engineering and assembly processes as well!
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GT 6:05PM (10/26/2007)
or perhaps they would like to work with an actual automotive design company, like Pininfaria or DC design like that other chinese manufacturer (the name slips through me)
Hank 5:18PM (10/26/2007)
Geely, dont they sell crappy mopeds over here in US and A??
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big L 11:44AM (10/27/2007)
Geely? Wasn't that J-Lo's awful movie?
It was spelled Gigli, pronounced Geely.
Don't buy these cars. It is a disaster for our economy.
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Don 11:27PM (10/27/2007)
Hmmmmmmmmmm. Do I put my family in something that's probably built like every other Chinese piece of crap product?
Nope.
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Billy 8:41PM (10/28/2007)
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