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DeTomato_@reddit

Two BYD’s luxury subsidiaries are launching electric sports cars. They will join another BYD’s luxury subsidiary, Yangwang, to sell electric sports cars. Fangchengbao is BYD’s SUV brand, and somehow they will make a sports coupé.

I really don’t understand these Chinese companies, man. Every subbrand is overlapping each other. "Spamming" is the word that comes to mind when I think about the Chinese auto industry.

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neueziel1@reddit

chevy, pontiac, buick, cadillac, dodge, plmouth, ford, mercury say hello

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JediKnightaa@reddit

yep, if you want to get better learn from those who came before. A bunch of companies and see which ones stick and which ones fail. even the ones you listed dont tell the full story

Cadillac, GMC, Buick, Saturn, Chevrolet, Baojun, Wuling, Daewoo, Hummer, Holden, Oldsmobile, Vauxhall, Saab, Opel

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Syncrion@reddit

I think it's the stiff competition in China. Companies are throwing every dollar they can trying to capture any and all market share they can. Good for consumer right now but I wouldn't be surprised if in the next decade or two if half or more of the companies either collapse or are bought out by bigger ones.

Kinda like a bunch of skydivers playing chicken on when to pull the parachute. It's very fast and entertaining but not everyone is going to nail the landing when the ground comes up. (Likely in the form of some kind of financial/market issue).

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familyguy20@reddit

I mean you try building an auto industry for 1.5bn people lmao this is what it looks like

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threeinacorner@reddit

Nah that's just a BYD thing, and specifically with Denza and FCB. They're basically the same brand, and here in Aus they're even selling FCB cars as Denzas.

For a leading manufacturer, BYD really sucks at defining their product hierarchies. Almost as much as Chery sucks at designing cars that's aren't just GTA versions of popular cars.

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AscendantNomad@reddit

They also have 1.5b people so this is to be expected, they’re just trying to meet demand and/or capture the market

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BassWingerC-137@reddit

Bring back Peugeot, again, LOL #US

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mts2snd@reddit

Would love to see Chinese cars come to the states and create some competition, maybe it will bring prices down, and quality up. Maybe get us back to basics to compete. A basic 4wd should not be 50k.

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Redeemed_Expert9694@reddit

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zalcecan@reddit

Some of these are great designs, ones that are more their own or borrow slightly from others. Still wont matter for US market tho.

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threeinacorner@reddit

Honestly I hate these hyperbolic headlines. As a very interested observer of this new wave of Chinese cars, IMO the cars are cool, and very advanced. But 95% of them are not "crazy".

This is the kind of thing some publications do to generate hype and clicks. And then when they get to drive some of them and surprise surprise, they're perfectly decent but not mind-blowing cars with some Chinese quirks added on top, they frame it as some sort of revelation, some kind of deep-dive behind the hype, that they themselves generate.