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Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturers (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They saw what happened in the 70s and said never again will they have to actually compete with better products

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What happened in the 70s?

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Toyota had small, fuel efficient cars and that’s what people wanted during the oil crisis.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, them and Datsun. Super reliable cars when US manufacturers were ugly slow tanks that wouldn't make it 80,000 miles.