{"id":826,"date":"2009-02-07T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T03:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T04:41:16","slug":"coming-cheap-chinese-cars-at-costco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"Automobile &#8211; Coming: Cheap Chinese Cars at Costco?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-827\" title=\"china-car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/china-car-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"china-car\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Chinese cars have been displayed at the Detroit Auto Show for the past several years. Many industry critics ridiculed them for design or quality flaws. But others see these first Chinese vehicles and remember how Japanese and Korean cars were once laughed off\u00e2\u20ac\u201donly to become mainstream products in America.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Ligocki, CEO of GS Motors and formerly president of Ford of Mexico, expects Chinese-designed cars to begin production in Mexico in 2010\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand make their way to the US about five years after first testing the waters in Latin America and Canada. GS Motors, a Mexican company, already imports three models from China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s First Auto Works (FAW) and sold 4,000 of them in Mexico last year&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hybridcars.com\/news\/cheap-chinese-cars-costco-25541.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese cars have been displayed at the Detroit Auto Show for the past several years. Many industry critics ridiculed them for design or quality flaws. But others see these first Chinese vehicles and remember how Japanese and Korean cars were once laughed off\u00e2\u20ac\u201donly to become mainstream products in America. Kathleen Ligocki, CEO of GS Motors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-new-automobile-products-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4740,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/4740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}