Anyone want a Indian car? Mahindra is coming!

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

Well, it's a race now to see who will get here first: India's Mahindra, or China's Chery ( or Great Wall, etc.). Anyhow, here's the official website of Mahindra's US importer.
http://www.gv-usa.com/

To be fair to our warm and fuzzy friends, the Communist Chinese, here's a US site for Chinese car imports:
http://chinacarusa.com/
BTW, Brilliance is the Western name for Chery.

Other Indian cars include: Maruti and Tata.
Other Chinese cars include Geely, Great Wall, Hafei, and I think Jiangling.

 

[jonnyslick]

Pending price on them ... I think they'll be good sellers here in the states. Honestly I kind of like the Mahindra's ... not sure why, but I like the funky styling.

I live in a farm community and there are two Mahindra dealers here and LOTS of the farmers have their equipment on their farms. So the switch to their cars wouldn't big that big of an issue to them I would think.

And on the Chinese website the "M3" car actually has nice styling. If you read it was designed by the Piniferina house (Ferrari, Lotus, etc.). So I think that will be a big competition for the Honda Civic and the Hyandai Tiberon shoppers.

 

[88hurstolds]

I think I just got sick, those cars look gay.

We are goin to be droping off as a world competitor if we keep 'giving' our assets and money to Asia and continue to let crap like that in our country. Someone needs to kick the big three in the balls.

Pretty soon no one in the states will have a job... first it was all the Manufacturing jobs and now they are taking all the Engineering and IT jobs. The company I am at just let a bunch of senior people go, i.e. people with families and who's kids are trying to go to college, and the very next week we just got roughly 30 foreign contractors from India or wherever who are now doing their job.
We are fuct as a nation if we continue to let other nations buyout our companies.
Screw China and India! :evil:
We need a revolution and its not Obama who is going to give it to us.

Boycot Chineese and foreign goods!

 

[3XBrownCutty]

AMEN!!!!

 

[Uncletruck]

One irony with Mahindra is that they started out building old tractor designs they bought from International Harvester- ones that IH was going bankrupt building in the late 70's/early 80's. All they did was improve and modernize the designs and they had a worldwide hit. American companies and their stockholders give in too easily for the sake of the almighty dollar, not giving a damn that once the companies are sold to foreign interests, America will not be getting them back. I mean who ever thought even Budweiser would become a foreign business?

Why do foreign companies Honda, Toyota, Nissan, and others do so well in the USA? Perhaps because they invested in the USA and USA workers by at least building new high tech assembly plants here. You can't fault them for that. In essense I don't actually care who is at the top of these big companies or what country they live in, as long as they can continue to employ American workers. As sad as it is, the chance of even a Chinese car company opening a new auto assembly plant in the USA is a whole lot better than GM, Ford, or Chrysler doing so. The ONLY way Chrysler got that Jeep plant in Toledo was because of Daimler, now even they are out of the picture. The American company has to be able to compete. Yes, labor rates are out of kilter with China. But in turn the UAW worker crying that they are starving off of $30+/hour and retiring with a $100k+ pension isn't right either. All it takes is time for the water to reach the even level.

-UT-

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

Actually, Mahindra got it's start in auto manufacturing making cast-off Jeep designs, like the old forward control trucks of the 50's and 60's, and later made some CJ's under license as well. Maruti is known as the manufacturer of the Suzuki Samurai in India during the 80's and 90's.

The only way I will buy a car from these companies is if it is really cheap and good on gas. Like $6,000 for a new small 3 cylinder hatchback cheap.