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Look I'm a HUGE FUCKING BORE by McMoo 12/19/2008, 2:27pm PST
McMoo wrote:

I'd link to the video but FUCK YOU. If Tesla had enough cash to develop version two, it would kick ass though.

This shit doesn't matter now that the hydrogen powered Accord is out (in a tiny part of California).


Here's the thing about China - any new product we release right now will be made by the Chinese twice as good and at half the price. For a car I would guess that would happen in 1 or 2 years but that timeline is shortening rapidly. China is churning out (depending who you ask) 3 to 10 times more engineers than North America is. The copycat nature of their manufacturing forces them to be as efficient (or cut corners) as much as possible to compete against the other 1000 companies that make the exact same product.

Hence, *fine oak pipe* the only way we can compete is to develop new technology and make money until the Chinese imitators come out next year. Rising wages in China will close the gap slightly in the future, but until a huge automaker goes bust and destroys the unions power to demand over $30 an hour for auto assembly workers wages will hold steady. I would point to automation as a possible competitive edge but what union would allow that either?

Importing a couple hundred million Chinese would also help - Canada has tons of land for it. Hope you like being cold and/or starving!

Now that China is well on their way to securing Africa's resources we're pretty much fucked anyway. I'm going to play Fallout 3 and wait for the US annexation.
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Chinese car company builds first home-plug-in car. by Fussbett 12/18/2008, 2:23am PST NEW
    It's made by chinese babies, probably infringes tons of patents and copyrights, NT by and good luck with impact testing 12/18/2008, 7:49am PST NEW
        Those sound like insumountable obstacles! Now I understand. Naptime yet? by Fussbett 12/18/2008, 8:11am PST NEW
            Detroit brain damage has nothing to do with China's cost advantages in manufactu by Entropy Stew 12/18/2008, 8:18am PST NEW
                China vs. America by Fussbett 12/18/2008, 11:20am PST NEW
                    Not mentioned in that Wikipedia article: Tesla Motors is bankrupt. NT by Fortinbras 12/18/2008, 1:36pm PST NEW
                        Re: Not mentioned in that Wikipedia article: Tesla Motors is bankrupt. by I need clarification 12/18/2008, 1:48pm PST NEW
                            Re: Not mentioned in that Wikipedia article: Tesla Motors is bankrupt. by Fortinbras 12/18/2008, 2:02pm PST NEW
                                Who would have guessed something named after Tesla would end up penniless NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/18/2008, 2:08pm PST NEW
                                So you're saying a cheap (Chinese) plug-in hybrid just might sell? NT by I need clarification 12/18/2008, 3:33pm PST NEW
                                    Thanks to the Chinese Assault Rifle in FO3, I'm willing to buy Chinese again NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/18/2008, 5:39pm PST NEW
                                        This + Weyoun + serious car talk = front pageable thread NT by Zsenitan 12/18/2008, 5:42pm PST NEW
                                            I was pid=93446 Weyon, and I think I repeated that joke (sorry, Jsoh)(sorry ever NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/18/2008, 7:03pm PST NEW
                                            Weyoun from DS9? NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 12/18/2008, 7:11pm PST NEW
                            Expensive, also brittle by McMoo 12/19/2008, 1:55pm PST NEW
                                Look I'm a HUGE FUCKING BORE by McMoo 12/19/2008, 2:27pm PST NEW
                                Who are these shoddy Tesla cars made by anyway? The Chinese?! NT by Fussbett 12/19/2008, 10:46pm PST NEW
                        A car company going bankrupt?! Whaaaaaaaa?! NT by Fussbett 12/19/2008, 11:02am PST NEW
                    I had a big reply and closed the browser by Entropy Stew 12/18/2008, 3:04pm PST NEW
                        Who are these shoddy browsers made by anyway? The Chinese?! NT by Fussbett 12/19/2008, 10:45pm PST NEW
                    So how are things doing in CURRENT YEAR anyway? NT by Tesla suspends Model 3 production 04/17/2018, 2:51pm PDT NEW
    I'm skeptical of Chinese automobile engineering by Rafiki 12/18/2008, 9:55am PST NEW
        Re: I'm skeptical of Chinese automobile engineering by Fussbett 12/18/2008, 10:01am PST NEW
            Well I'd like to be able to DRIVE it by Rafiki 12/18/2008, 6:46pm PST NEW
        All the best cars from the '70s and earlier are dangerously unsafe. by Jerry Whorebach 12/18/2008, 10:03am PST NEW
            "Dangerously unsafe." by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/18/2008, 10:18am PST NEW
            in this case, it will be a shoddy car with shit horsepower AND unsafe NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 12/18/2008, 10:24am PST NEW
        Re: I'm skeptical of Chinese automobile engineering by bombMexico 12/18/2008, 6:02pm PST NEW
            100% analog steering! by Entropy Stew 12/18/2008, 7:17pm PST NEW
        Wow that fourth video. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 12/18/2008, 7:16pm PST NEW
        there are sometimes when I actually enjoy reading youtube comments NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 12/19/2008, 1:30am PST NEW
            You learn well from them. NT by Youtube Comment Sensei 12/19/2008, 7:38am PST NEW
    I heard China wants to be the second country to put a car on The Moon. NT by Jerry Whorebach 12/18/2008, 2:03pm PST NEW
        I heard you were the second-cutest boy on this tiny website NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 12/18/2008, 5:37pm PST NEW
    Why don't they build a normal car someone wants first? NT by Horus Truthteller 05/16/2018, 6:42pm PDT NEW
 
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