How The Chinese EV Companies Have Changed Our Car Buying Landscape
If you look back just a decade ago, you will find a totally different kind of car buying landscape in Singapore. There were many cars, which were brought in with the barest of equipment, with plastics that were barely better than the stuff used in Tamiya model kits. And all this was done in the name of keeping the costs and the OMV down. The feature list was bare, the feel was we should be grateful for these barebone models shipped to us from India, Thailand, Indonesia and other of the factories set up outside of Japan to keep costs low. Conti cars were also sent to us from outside of Germany and Britain. We had factories from South Africa, and Eastern Europe. You had more blank slots and empty buttons in these cars than actual functioning ones. But you comforted yourself, telling yourself it was all in the name of cost containment. There was one game changer, and this was even before the Chinese invasion occured. It was the Mazda 3. The plastics used were as goo...
