They're coming in their own cars

Late next year or perhaps in 2008 we will see Chinese vehicles on our streets. Malcolm Bricklin, who has just raised $225 million for R&D work on China's Chery car, will be importing these cars then. In many ways it is likely that the quality of the Chinese cars will be relatively poor, as was the quality of Japanese and Korean cars when they were first sold here. However, while it took the Japanese twenty years to establish themselves here, it took the Koreans only ten years. How long will it take the Chinese?