You think they're Samsung cars? I was thinking BYD but I've lost track of all the names and logos

Maybe I just didn't pay enough attention, but last time I was in HK (last November), I didn't see any Chery's, or other Chinese brand cars.
OTOH, there are many Mercedes S-class & E-class everywhere, as well as many Japanese cars.

Didn't see any Rolls Royce?

Of course I did, just not as many as Mercedes(for high end cars).
There are quite a few Rolls Royce Phantoms at the Pennisula Hotel alone, which I passed by almost everyday. I think Hong Kong still has the most Rolls Royce cars per capita in the world.

Q45?

Seriously, you don't see any MB there?

The cars are Ssangyong which is owned by Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation. If those were actually fully Chinese cars, they would be 100% copies, not just 80%. :P

yeah, MB S-class...
smaller cupholder?? Yes, there aren't many big gulps over there.
They drink smaller cans...

I will NEVER buy an f'ing Chinese car, EVER. I'll buy American before I buy Chinese, and that ain't too likely either. Americans that buy Chinese, after all the **** that's gone down with the products they send to us, need to be slapped senseless. I suppose it's inevitable long-term, but you gotta take a stand somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kQGAK550LE

Do you really want to drive a Chery?? I would hate to get into an accident with it!! Scares the living daylights out of me!

That's not fair lol. Doesn't the Peninsula have a fleet of Phantoms with the hotel's coat of armour (forgot what it's called) imprinted on the sides?

Sure? HK might be competing with Saudi Arabia lol.

Well yeah in the whole front end design. I was just looking at the headlight shape

if a little weiner country like korea can do it in 15 years imagine how fast china can do it, with a monster workforce and even bigger budget

This is pathetic. I don't even understand why the United States and the rest of the world are even willing to deal with a country that clearly does not respect patents and copyrights. They just keep ripping stuff off, from cell phones to cars, and go unpunished. Shame on them and anyone who buys their products.

This doesn't appply to cars, of course, because Chinese-built cars have not yet arrived here, but it is almost impossible NOT to buy Chinese-made goods if you walk into almost any general-merchandise or department store. Like it or not, the Chinese, today, dominate the world of general consumer goods...thay have taken much of it away from Japan.

I think it took the Chinese courts years to settle an OBVIOUS starbucks infringement case. Any recent court cases that upholds the rights of patent holders are just temporary events to boost the Chinese image before the Olympics. This is not hard to figure out with some knowledge of how the Chinese government do things.

Please keep the discussion focussed on the cars, not politics, that's for the debate forum. Thanks

The title of this should be more along the lines of:

Look out Asian automakers here comes the Chinese rather than look out Detroit.

For the guy who won't buy Chinese over shipments here: The Chinese were our ally in WW2.

For the Chinese they seem to forget that they would currently be speaking Japanese if not for us and to a lesser degree if not for them we would have had difficulties in WW2 without them being an ally.

The reason I feel people should boycott is their saber rattling frightens kids old enough to understand threatening sounding lingo and it sure scares the heck out of the elderly too, that and human rights.

Shame on them for that, Putin for it, the nutcase in Iran and the creep in N Korea for it, and on and on who routinely do this and scare their own kids and elderly and those of other nations with there sick creep dialogue, they are some VERY SICK folks IMO.