Dodge to sell Chery A1
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Dodge will sell a rebadged version of the Chinese Chery A1 next year in South America.
The A1 could end up in the US a year later for $10 000.
Gone are the dreams of a cool looking small Dodge like the Hornet they teased us with a while ago.
To make things clear, the crash test picture at the bottom is the Chery QQ. A smaller model than the A1.
But still… let’s hope they figured out a way to make their cars a bit more dafe by the time the export them over here…
Avialable on isle 5 at your local Walmart
It’s safer than bike, toy trains, toothpaste or fish. What r u complaining about?
lol at Wal Mart!
Dodge won’t build the Hornet or the Demon sports car, nooooooooooooo. But they’ll waste money importing this cheap tin can deathtrap over here. They’ll be balls up with the 1st lawsuit filed by surviving family. They can’t claim they didn’t know this thing isn’t crashworthy. For years I waited for Dodge to build RWD cars again, and when they did, they’re the ugliest things on the road. Ya gotta wonder what auto CEOS are puttin in their morning coffee.
Well there is ONE positive thing about this car coming over as a Dodge…the interior quality of this think looks MUCH better than any of the products that they’ve recently released.
This thing is a piece of junk, just like the rest of the line-up at Dodge. I don’t think this brand is competitive at all.
This vehicle will be a death trap, but it will sell to uneducated Americans who want a new vehicle. Sad thing is that young teens will probably be the ones who end up driving this, and dying young in fatal car crashes that a used Civic could have withstood.
10000!!1 you must be kiding me!!!
you can get a good used taurus or a malibu for that price
something made with good solid us steel .
not some tin can made from 3r world metal
this is an insult to us american
dodge needs to wake up and stop this
we do not want chinese crap in our country period!!!!
First,BEFORE REPLYING PEOPLE, DO SOME INTERNET RESEARCH AND GET AN EDUCATION.
DETNEWS, AMONG MANY OTHERS, HAVE SAID CHERY WILL BUILD 1) A SUB-COMPACT AND 2) A COMPACT(MAYBE HORNET)….FOR DODGE(ANOHTER REPORT SAID HORNET AND ANOTHER CAR, MAYBE STUFF FOR ALL 3 CHRYSLER BRANDS).
Also,, did you know that GM, for what, 2 years now(this August)… has been using a Chinese built(Shanghai, iirc) V6 for their Equinox.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Equinox
WHAT DON’T you learn to do some research before running off
at the mouth(es)?
NO PROBLEMS WITH THE CHINESE ENGINED CHEVY .
FYI: All cars coming into the USA MUST MEET regualtions for saftey, emissions, etc,roll-eyes.
It’s ok for Chevy to have Chinese engines, but not whole cars for Chrysler?
I do not like this, though… it’s not “masculine” looking.
Why not copy Suzuki… the 5 door SX4 or Reno, or the SL
Nissan Versa(5 door).
Any of them look better than this.
Here is hoping the reports are ttue of Hornet being built, BUT, make it the PT Cruiser size, and not some TOY(the Hornet concept is
151 inches or so in total length?
That’s nonsense, for most Americans..that’s a kiddie car size).
Maker it replace the PT… drop in the 173HP GEMA engine, assembled in China….make it 15-17K loaded… 30 MPG hwy, at least…(0-60 of 9 seconds or so).. I’ll buy one.
Make it “Toy-sized”, NO.
Also, “man-up” this thing they are showing on VB’s site here!
Looks like
Barbie should be picking up Ken in this pathetic example of a car.
For the h8ters… this is America… you don’t like it, don’t buy it, ya do, buy it.
You don’t like how things work in the USA… LEAVE.
Thanks. Have a nice weekend.
take care.not offense.
Get tired of h8ters on all forums.
State your piece, and not attack the ethiticity of people, for once.
That interior looks nice…better than what Chrysler has in any of their cars, even their most expensive ones. It reminds me a little of the Scion tC interior…but better-looking.
A step forward in modernity for Chery interiors. Unfortunately, a step backwards for Dodge exteriors.
I hear Dodge is going to put more safety features in their version so that it’ll pass U.S. standards, so let’s cross our fingers.
D Jones, where you been the past 2 decades? Not trying to flame you here, BUT……The Chevy Aveo= S Korean Daewoo(GM-DAT). About 5-7% USA materials in it, and they sell 50-60 K units per year.
The Equinox has an Aisin transmission and a Chinese built V6 engine.
Fusion is built in Mexico, iirc(how many American UAW work in Mexico, on lines, assembling cars? None you say? Buy American? LOL).
The engines in the Caliber and Sebring and the Avenger? Hyundai Based engine/GEMA.
Look it up.. this is 2007, not 1977. Sorry to have to alert you to this little fact.
If Chrysler can get these guys to build something decent, and saves US(non-30 dollar per hour workers in America)money… I am all for it.
Chinese (chery?) , iirc, said in a few years, (if they sell well) they wanna build factories in NA.
Big 3 leave USA… Hyundai/Kia/Japanese/Germans, maybe one day, Chinese, might build here, and hire Americans.
Never know? What about Rowe, they still gonna build in Oklahoma, or whatever?
Hey, if Ford can sell trucks with flames shooting out of the tail pipes…..and more rollovers than any other company in the history of SUV’s…. why flame these guys, folks? I guess Only American made, it’s ok to be junky and dangerous?
the crash-test picture is not from Chery A1, but from Chery QQ, a smaller and old model than A1!