to shut at least three 
German 
plants, axe tens of thousands of jobs and slash 
pay by 10%
The restructuring would
mark the first
closure of domestic
plants
in the company's 87-year history
and set it up for a battle
with powerful unions in Germany, where
VW has 300,000 employees. There
are 10 plants
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The West's
time building cars 
has finished.
It's time for superior Chinese
cars 
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Can China even make an ICE? Unironically every engine I've ever seen from there has been a copy of a existing engine. 0 home grown
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BEVs are simpler than an ICE it's basically a smart phone on wheels.
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When great wall motors needed a motor for their shitty truck thing, they used a copy of the Mitsubishi Orion 4G64 engine.( no relation to the Evolution 4G63 turbo engine which was kino)
The 4G64 was designed in the 1980s and was famous for using as much oil as it did fuel. So a 40 year old engine, re engineered by the Chinese
Lmao
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I imagine that's why they're so hyped about EVs. All they need to make one of those is 4 motors and a battery
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It was essentially THE plan, Chinks knew trying to catch up with Europe, US or Japan, all of whom have 100+ years of experience building ICE, was stupid. Electric motors are simple in comparison, and they didn't need massive investment there, so they went all in on battery R&D.
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I dont trust chinx cars. Theres something sus about them.
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Probably either catches fire occasionally or the battery life is shit.... its like a monkeys paw when you deal with them
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I remember watching a documentary about how some chinese car manufacturer wanted to expand to europe but got cockblocked by regulations. It turns out the car 1) had no crumple zone and 2) was made of something like aluminium and plastic. They showed the impact test footage and as a result the car would literally turn into a pancake upon impact at relatively slow speeds, which they compared to a passat or some other car of similar dimensions which had a nice accordeon-like compression of its front-end and left the passengers mostly intact.
It's amazing how shit you can make a car if you try hard enough.
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this is meaningless without some statistics.
How many lives are saved each year by EU-regulated cars? how much do we pay extra per life?
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Btw !commenters, I couldn't find the doc I was talking about but I'm fairly sure this is the impact test that they showed there. You really have to see this for yourself because words don't do it justice
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LMAO crashworthiness of a 60 year old car
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LMAO chinx get rekt
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Based
using engineering to remove the Asian bad driver genes from the reproduction pool.
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I don't know and I don't care. My actions are motivated not by empiricism but by my disdain for Chinese
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思凸山豖 牢 雨龜口
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Yeh quick battery charging in 11 mins sounds like something that shouldnt exist for a car.
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It would probably generate a crazy amount of heat if it was real.
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And 0% chance the airbags work
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I saw a clip of a Chinese car crashing and there was a half second delay between the impact and the air bags deploying
I'd sooner trust the takata airbags in a 2004 CR-V
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i would take that zeeker without airbags over any car sold in america
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/uj I agree
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Would you trust a chinese person to make sure your family is safe going at highway speeds? Of course not
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Can't wait for my VW EV to slam right into a tree at 140 mph because the podcast I was listening to refered to Taiwan as a country.
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Apparently driving in China is very chaotic.
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