This is all interesting, an open discussion about a new phenomena in the UK car market. But ff someone posts about car brand "A", then as part of that discussion someone is bound to say - what about car brand "B" or car brand "C", and so on. That is to be expected. The sales numbers for Jaecoo cars speak for themselves - the market in action - you pay your money, you make your choice. People are not being forced into buying them. I don't think there is any con-job going on, like there was with VW and other diesels with the "cheating" of emissions. But they still look like electric shavers...
I was touched by a Chinese recently. My wife was also touched by the smell that came out of me after I ate it.
Looking at the reliability record of recent Land Rover/Range Rover, I would take any other car..esp if used! Even a
some chinese cars are excellently engineered and others are not so good but one major problem is poor after sales and a really dire source of Spare parts for many chinese cars , insurers and finance companies are raising rates on chinese cars due to the problem of parts . customers complain about very long delays for repairs .
Yes, similarly... spare parts for some Chinese motorcycles are impossible to source / or are VERY expensive!
Toyota still make that style basic landcruiser for souths America and Africa they can be bought new for £29k , but it cant be sold in EU , USA etc we only get the modern luxury boat Landcruiser that is £60k ... my wife prefers ISUZUs I bought her a new MUX in 2013 and she has now done 320,000k miles , no faults at all , before that she had an isuzu TFR pickup and she put 590k miles on it in 18 years she sold it to a farmer in Thailand and its still running now its 36 years old with 650k miles LOL
