“If you think about the playbook about the Japanese in the 70s, those cars were not the best cars coming through in the 70s. But the Chinese cars that we're getting now are instantly competitive. The quality is great. The technology is first rate. The backup and dealer service is really, really good. So they are more than the Japanese did, more than the Koreans did, they're hitting the ground right now.”
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Robert Llewellyn recalled seeing an early BYD at a motor show with poorly fitted panels and noted how far it has come. Motoring journalist Steve Fowler says Chinese brands arrive in Europe competitive from day one, unlike earlier waves of Japanese and Korean cars.
BYD build buses and you could drive their buses for some of those panels. But you think
of what's happened with them in the next, like 10 years later, if you saw BYDs in 2019, still quite a while ago, they were amazing. And
this is the thing, if you think about the playbook about the Japanese in the 70s, those cars were not the best cars coming through in the 70s. But the Japanese, so the Chinese cars that we're getting now are instantly competitive. The quality is great. The technology is first rate. The backup and dealer service is really, really good. So they are more than the Japanese did, more than the Koreans did, they're hitting the ground right now. And they're changing so, so quickly. You know, I drove the Leap Motor B03X a few weeks ago, and we were complaining about the steering. They said, oh, yeah, yeah, we know about that. There's a software update coming within a couple of weeks. Couldn't you have done it before we drove it? But, you know, that's the thing. It's just happening so quickly. But
also that thing that, you know, which we all saw and we realized, oh my God, they've done it, which was the Denza flash charging. And you go, that's, oh, that actually does. Oh, it is actually five minutes. It's not like we're saying it's five minutes, but actually it's 25. And, you know, they're…
Ready in five, full in nine, or cold in another, or an extra three if it's an extra three if it's like it's like that 30 days has September. Yes, you need to learn the role. Just kind of falls off at the end of the moment, doesn't it?
But now, I've just read yesterday, GD, they've got a four minutes 20 from 10 to 70%. Of course they work. In a big, and it's not in a little battery, it's a big battery.