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Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturers (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Its largely american cope that they are not that good at manufacturing anymore. Chinese factories build things to spec, and the customer asks for cheap, so they get cheap.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

They also iterate very quickly.

First car design - "functional" is being polite about it.

Fifteen years later when they are on their tenth revision - pretty damn good.

Meanwhile US car manufacturers can squeeze in a revision/refresh every 5 years if they're lucky.