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And American car/vehicle manufacturers are crying over low sales.
Stupid
Crying over fewer high margin sales. They want the same number of sales but with more profit.
I was going to make a comment about cheap Chinese cars, but then I checked the BYD price list, and the Dolphin is the only car they’re offering for less than $50k. The rest are a pretty even distribution between 50 and 100k pre-add-on fees and taxes and trims.
BYD tends to be higher end (although the Seagull comes in around $11k). If you want a cheaper compact, try a Geely Xing Yuan or Chery Arrizo ($8k-13k range). For a sportier economy car, there's the Xiaomi SU7 ($30k).
The big catches with these cars is that they're far smaller than their American equivalents.
I like small cars anyways. America has an auto obesity crisis. Older small cars have a charm that bloated crossovers don't
The bigger catches with most of the smaller cars is that they wouldn’t pass an NHTSA inspection. Of course, if big cars didn’t exist, they might — but there’s lots of commercial vehicles on the roads that aren’t SUVs or pickup trucks that still might collide with a lightweight vehicle.