Re: [MBZ] Chinese cars

[R A Bennell]

I think you will find that is no longer the case for Hyundai. I have never
owned one but they appear to have improved dramatically. If I am not
mistaken, buyers of new Hyundai automobiles were happier with them last year
than purchasers of new MB automobiles. It is unfortunate for us (and for
Europeans perhaps) but it appears that we have become more than sloppy and
the far east is making gains to better quality on an ongoing basis.

On a different subject (to some extent at any rate) one can look at the
quality of imported tools. A few years ago I considered them to be just
junk. It is no longer the case and the stuff coming out of the east is
actually pretty good stuff in many cases now. I have a nephew who works for
a big (by Canadian standards at any rate) chain of stores that service
farmers and that sort of folk and he says the next thing to come is really
inexpensive welders. He says they are going to blow the lid off the north
american welder market. So, if you have been thinking about a new welder you
might want to wait to see what shows up. Same old thing though, buying from
the east is going to hurt someone else either in America or Europe (most of
the ones that the chain currently sells come from Italy).

Randy B

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Lets not forget that the Hyundai and Kia have improved from truly awful to
merely embarrassing. Just a tic more and Chevrolet had better watch their
back.

RLE

Re: [MBZ] Chinese cars

[Jim Cathey]

farmers and that sort of folk and he says the next thing to come is 
really
inexpensive welders. He says they are going to blow the lid off the 
north

american welder market.


A decent TIG is what I need next.  (Though some would say that what
I really need is some ability to actually weld.)  You can imagine my
budget for such as I've been unemployed since May.

-- Jim

Re: [MBZ] Chinese cars

[RELNGSON]

To me it's the answer to people who repeat the canard that China will
control the world economically in our lifetimes!  A command economy driven
by stamping out crude potmetal copies of Western technology is a joke, not a
threat.  We might as well have worried that the USSR was going to put GM out
of business in the '80s by selling Volgas here.

Lets not forget that the Hyundai and Kia have improved from truly awful to 
merely embarrassing. Just a tic more and Chevrolet had better watch their back.

RLE

Re: [MBZ] Chinese cars

[Christopher McCann]

Kia built my old Ford Festiva and it was a fabulous little car. I  really 
regret selling it. I still see them all the time  so I  concluded they must 
have been pretty decent overall. Haven't seen a  Yugo in ages.
  
  God  help you if you get in a wreck in a Festiva, though. 
  
  Chris

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control the world economically in our lifetimes!  A command economy driven
by stamping out crude potmetal copies of Western technology is a joke, not a
threat.  We might as well have worried that the USSR was going to put GM out
of business in the '80s by selling Volgas here.

Lets not forget that the Hyundai and Kia have improved from truly awful to 
merely embarrassing. Just a tic more and Chevrolet had better watch their back.

RLE
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I say let's find a HUUGE hill, put both mine and Luther's cars at the 
top with filters filled with ATF and wel-soaked cylinders and send them both 
to the bottom.  Whichever car is running by the time they get to the bottom 
is MINE!  If they're both running, I'll take the one that makes it back up 
to the top first.

Kevin in Hillsboro Oregon
1973 220D unnamed with unknown mileage