I see we still give people napkins jokes about Chinese cars, rather like they joked about Skoda in the nibties.
You noodle to be aware of what’s actually going on in China.
When the Chinese market opened up to world car manufacturers, the government decreed they would have to build in China, with a 50% ownership by the Chinese government.
indeed, new Tesla’s for Europe are currently being built in China, cars for Australia also.
this have the Chinese a big quick lesson on how to manufacture and build modern cars.
they have also taken some of the best designers and engineers from Europe and the USA to develop their future cars.
the push for EVs has helped them also, developing an ICE driven car and manual gearboxes takes a lot of tine compared to EV systems.
those laughing at cheap Chinese knock offs need to wake up before their jobs are lost to this tsunami of government subsidised cars and other items.
how is your Chinese built iPhone/iPad?
of course Motability will add Chinese cars as soon as they are available, cheaper cars, yes residual values will be lower, but this is a way of reducing their initial costs as electric cars are forced upon people