at 27k with a 3 year warranty, more dealers than land rover in oz, a loan car scheme, sounds like a good buy and possibly less problems than i read about on this forum with the puma defender!!
this was our one, - 17 on the day, minime is 14 months and asleep.
i read a few years back, it took 20 years for Japan to become a great car manufacturing nation. it took korea 10 years, it will take China 5.
Toyota started of by copying the Austin motor. look under the bonnet of any 70s OHC Nissan then look under the bonnet of a BMW. Hyundai started off with mitzi motors. GWM started of with a 8 year old toyota factory, Kia motors and a supply chain from VW.
just because they are new here ( right hand drive) they have been around for the last decade in volume
Dont we have enough junk being imported into this country already??? This is the sort of rubbish copy crap that gets dumped onto the market just like every other cheap item you can buy these days, lasts for a while until it breaks. The last time we saw this was eith the likes of Kia and Hyundai etc coming into the market, now the compact car market is littered with junk that is becoming harder to get parts for even inside a 7 year life.
OK, a cheap spanner or screwdriver to get you out of trouble and you dont mind if it breaks as long as it gets you to the end of the job in hand, but quantify that with your family inside a car that crumples at 60km/h beyond normal standards.
These types of manufacturers do not care about quality, warranty or service, I know, I have dealt on both sides in the Automotive market for a number of years and I personally refuse to sell imported copy goods, the reason I left my last position with an OE supplier trying to "get in on the act" with Chinese copy Perkins Phaser and Deutz engines. I refused to sell as I knew they had issues, the whole reason Perkins pulled out of the factory in the first place, but the engines just kept rolling out.
From the first 5 that were sold nationally, 3 had major failures inside 6 months, and thats with Perkins tooling!!
Chinese manufacturers have no copyright recognition, are not loyal to your deal and will ignore any exclusivity you may have arranged.
Materials used are mainly from re foundried scrap metal and are not of a discernable rating.
Basically you get their crap, they get your money, who wins at the end...?
RSA is already flooded by that rubbish.
Current clones are.
Hilux, Izuzu, Toyota RAV, ML Mercedes, Diahatsu Terios amongst some of them.
Gonow, GWM being the two biggest brands but I tkink there are about four in total.
Toyota started of by copying the Austin motor. look under the bonnet of any 70s OHC Nissan then look under the bonnet of a BMW. [/QUOTE]
Japan asked Austin to come over and made localised versions of their cars there. As a result Austin was heavily involved with Nissan. That is why right up to the Sunny of the eighties the engine parts were interchangable. Nissan paid a royality fee on every engine they made though. Seems strange in light of how history panned out that Japan sought British advice on establishing volume car manufacturing and design.
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