Given the quality of some of their cheaper cars, this is a probably a shitbox.
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An suv we cant buy
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An SUV for that price... In sure Chinese sweatshop factory workers are paid fairly and work in safe conditions and get regular breaks, vacations, aock leave, etc... Right?
Because if not, you'd be buying products from slavery yet somehow I don't see that argument very much
So, instead of Chinese robot slavery, buy from American or Mexican human slavery?
but American slaves were convicted!
Mostly of being not white, but you know . . .
Not denying sweatshops over there, but it's highly likely these are mostly built by robots in empty buildings.
Yeah. Watched a factory tour and assembly for sany equipment. Excavators and such. There's people involved. But the facilities are clean automated and far from sweat shop looking. They make damn good equipment. I used to think it's junk. Then I had to fix a couple. Impressive stuff from those guys.
You should worry a ton about the kind of spying which could be embedded in their cars, or terrible security like the UK found in Huawei phone masts.
How much worse could it be than most cars already being sold? Will they also be selling my driving habits to insurance companies?
Isn’t every part of their auto industry heavily subsidized?
They are doing something though, it's called long term planning.
It annoys me so much that the western world has stopped doing it and is just thinking short term.
They're actually doing everything.
Not in the US. We have a captive market that keeps us from ever seeing one.
Can we just fucking STOP doing SUVs please? And huge trucks. And all the rest of that oversized garbage.
But I like being able to see over everyone else
- everyone
At this point I'm planning to see under everyone else.
Xiaomi first car is an amazing sport sedan: SU7. Followed by my personal favorite, the YU7. Actually the SU7 has been the best selling car in China for a few months.
The Skynomad, this new SUV, strangely is not marketed as Xiaomi but purely as Skynomad. They have separate stores, whereas the SU7 and YU7 are in the normal Xiaomi stores, between the phones fridges and laptops. Definitely a different target audience so that could be the strategy. It doesn't have a Xiaomi badge either.
The same goes for Huawei, who have a whole suit of different models and types of cars. The most insane one, from innovation perspective, is the Maestro, a competitor for Rolls-Royce.
All serious car manufacturers do this. Do you think Lexus, Infiniti, et al are their own brands?
I'm a car nut so yes I'm very aware and knowledgeable. However Lexus is Toyota which is a well established brand for many decades before they branched out. The same with Infinity.
Xiaomi is just starting out making cars for 3 years now, only have 2 models, and should work on their own brand first, before creating a new brand. The market in China in EV's is already extremely competitive. So introducing another brand, just is complicated for the consumer. Xiaomi is such an established brand here, keep it under that banner.
And the Skynomad is nothing special or high end luxury. That was my point. Build your brand first and in due time, create the spinoff if needed. Now in China, everything is accelerated but still.
Most of these these new SUVs aren't huge SUVs of the 90s - like Ford Explorer. They're basically the new station wagon but barely larger than a sedan like a Camry.
A crossover is a station wagon but the entire thing is raised up for no reason. It's funny how averse the public is to driving a minivan. I drove one as a rental for a week and it was snappy, convenient, comfortable, and could hold a ton of stuff or people.
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