Frightening news...

[auditude at cox.net]

When you say imitation, you mean non-oem parts right?  I would imagine if they are from genuine Audi suppliers, they would be of decent quality even if they are manufactured in China, no?

What was that one part that is super-cheap and crappy in our cars?  Was it the Type 85 power window stuff or something?  I forget, it was made somewhere like Costa Rica.

Later,

Ken

Brett Dikeman brett at cloud9.net
>
> If you notice, the article mostly talks about the Chinese market.  I
> see nothing here that says Chinese-made vehicles will be sold
> anywhere but in China.
>
> What this probably does mean, however, is that the number of
> chinese-made imitation parts will jump significantly.
>
> Brett
>
> At 1:02 PM -0400 10/24/02, Louis-Alain Richard wrote:
> >    FRANKFURT, Oct 24 (AFP) - German automaker Volkswagen plans to manufacture
> >the A4 model of its Audi unit in China in order to confront the arrival on the
> >Chinese market of rival BMW, the newspaper Handelsblatt reported Thursday,
> >quoting sources close to Audi in Asia.
> >    By manufacturing in China Volkswagen hopes to reduce the model's sales
> >price in order to make it more competitive with BMW's Series 3, which is also
> >to be produced next year on Chinese territory, the paper said.
> >    It added that Volkswagen and Audi would announce the decision by the end of
> >the month.
> >    Volkswagen officials were not immediately available for comment.
> >    BMW's arrival in China poses a direct threat to Volkswagen, currently the
> >leader in passenger auto sales there, where the latter controls nearly 50
> >percent of the market.