Comments on: Chery Forms Joint Venture With Fiat

By: SexCpotatoes

SexCpotatoes — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:08:58 +0000

Accident! Heck, they left that second “R” out on purpose, because materials cost ‘by the letter.’

By: gcorley

gcorley — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:26:16 +0000

tentacles: Your comment is probably too subtle for most of the readers, since they will not know that “Qirui” is the original name of the company in Chinese. Apparently, it was translated to “Cherry” but by accident the second “r” got left out.

By: tentacles

tentacles — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:12:58 +0000

Yeah, “Qirui” is totally a rip off of “Xuefulan”. You can barely tell them apart.

By: FromBrazil

FromBrazil — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:45:26 +0000

Well from my experience, if this joint venture should happen and NA would once again have access to Fiat’s great small cars it’d be great for you NA consumers! If Fiat made terrible cars in the 60s and 70s (and I wouldn’t disagree), starting from the 80s with the great little Uno they started getting their mojo back. And it’s not just me to say so, if you read Jeremy Clarkson reviews on-loine (as well as J Mays) they have enjoyed thouroughly Fiat’s latest offerings. In fact, Clarkson said of the Bravo that if you enjoyed driving you should get over the Golf (Rabbit in NA).

Cheers!

By: B-Rad

B-Rad — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:40:25 +0000

I guess I missed that story. Thanks for making me aware.

By: GS650G

GS650G — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:27:22 +0000

Chrysler, Fiat and Chery

can you imagine a car built by these three companies being reliable, having good resale, great looks and incredible performance?

More like three sailors hanging onto the same peice of driftwood.

By: Frank Williams

Frank Williams — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:26:22 +0000

B-Rad
GM should sue Chery for stealing the Chevy name.

They registered a formal complaint with the company around the same time they were suing it for ripping off the design of the Chevy Spark to build the Chery QQ. It was such a total clone that body parts between the two were interchangable. Of course, with the total lack of intellectual property laws in China, Chevy didn’t have a leg to stand on.

By: mel23

mel23 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:26:10 +0000

IIRC, GM did sue or made some motions in that direction but was ‘convinced’ to settle.

By: jthorner

jthorner — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:23:00 +0000

“GM should sue Chery for stealing the Chevy name.”

Yeah, GM should go over the China and use it’s courts to prevail over a local … lottsa luck!

By: B-Rad

B-Rad — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:11:58 +0000

GM should sue Chery for stealing the Chevy name. When I first read the title of this I was really surprised and thought “Chevy? Shouldn’t that read GM?” Then I reread it and saw it was Chery. I think they just replaced the “v” with an “r” and said “now we oughta sell some cars. After all, Chevy used to sell more cars than anyone else” Bad logic, Chery, that was like 50 years ago.