Shanghaiist: Shanghaiist Sunday Show: Will Chinese cars take over the world next?

nanheyangrouchuan

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:22:16 +0800

Euro III stickers have been on windshields in China since the early 2000s.

Bisa

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:20:20 +0800

Not sure what you're getting at but i looked it up briefly and supposedly in 2007 the Chinese were to impose the equivalent of Euro III standards (Euro IV in 2010) while in Europe they're about to impose Euro V; the States work on a different system but i doubt that their standards would be lower that Euro III, meaning that what Gore said was pretty wrong...

nanheyangrouchuan

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:52:42 +0800

Those Euro emissions stickers on the windshields are lies.

Bisa

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:18:04 +0800

In Gore's Inconvenient Truth he laid claim that the U.S. wouldn't be able to sell their cars on the Chinese market because fuel economy standards are actually stricter here. This seemed strange to me the first time I heard it. Does anyone have any figures to clear this up? If the fuel standards are so high, how can the Chinese be producing so many high-polluting autos??

nanheyangrouchuan

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:34:22 +0800

Chinese brand cars have been proven time and time again to be belching death traps that even consumers in developing markets will shun in favor of a 1970s toyota, mercedes, or US brand. And now the world's newest industrial behemoth, Tata, has a $2500 car for the Indian market and for export. It has been said that Tata's engineers already have an EU and US export model with all of the required safety and pollution gear for around $5000, making it an urban-ready car at a price someone with a minimum wage job can afford.

nanheyangrouchuan

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:32:39 +0800