Do you know the price of lambo in China?

ah64zzp · 08-11-04, 03:14 PM

Look
Murcielago 5,180,000 RMB about 620,000$
Gallardo 3,580,000 RMB about 430,000$
Do you think anyone in China could afford it?

All Wheel Drive · 08-11-04, 06:17 PM

Why do they cost so much?

thepolarfoxqx · 08-11-04, 11:08 PM

it isn't easy to import stuff of that sort into china, their government is very strict on that sort of thing, there are no propper dealers, it doesn't surprise me that much. Because of the chinese government's policy of allowing S.E.Z's, there is a new rising capitalist class within china which has a taste for all things expensive and western. I saw a picture the other day of a guy driving around hong kong in a hummer. Tell me how much sense that makes?

LateNightCable · 08-11-04, 11:34 PM

Hong Kong in a Hummer - no sense at all. $430,000 for a Gallardo, thats' a laugh.

thepolarfoxqx · 08-12-04, 12:58 AM

especially since a locally built car can likely be had for the equivalent of 1,500 dollars (given a loaf of bread there costs the equivalent of 25 cents, but still), also, keep in mind that the yuan is not a globally traded currency, the markets determine the exchange between euro, dollar, pound, yen, rouble, etc, the chinese government just decides what a Yuan is worth, which inflates the price of everything imported by a gross margin.

skyline_r34v · 08-12-04, 03:35 AM

Damn that'd suck ass to live there.

ah64zzp · 08-12-04, 05:16 AM

It seems that thepolarfoxqx know a lot of China

, not only the car like lambo,even some very cheap car can be sold at a very high price in China. For example : price of a vw new beatles in China is about 600,000
RMB ,about 72,000$! You see, all the cars are all sold at a very high price in China.Beside the reasons have mentioned , i think there're some other reasons : China has a very large population:more than 1200000000,so if every family which can afford a car all buy their cars ,can you imagine the traffic in China( not to mention the poor road condition there)?

thepolarfoxqx · 08-12-04, 06:16 AM

most of china's population is rural and lives the way western europe did 200 years ago. Even their urban populations are still fairly far away from the impacts of the SEZ policy. There is a select few in the capitalist class that benefit from that and are extremely wealthy. Look around you, all the "Made in China" stamped everywhere, someone is getting rich off that. Cars made in china are still very cheap, they are trying to cultivate an automotive industry, but their cars are still very primitive. Everything imported is expensive, their trade and economic system is totally tailored around exports, which also leaves them in a very precarious place where oil is concerned, china has next to no domestic sources of oil, and must import nearly all of it, because of their economic setup, this is very very expensive for them, making cars even less practical. Also, keep in mind that in a communist country, you have almost no disposable income, the government employs you, provides you housing, medical care, most everything you need, and gives you an allowance for odds and ends, so saving up for a car is impossible unless you are one of their connected capitalists connected with free industry. China having cars in the sense the modern world does just isn't practical under their current arrangement.

ah64zzp · 08-12-04, 07:51 AM

i agree with you ,it is not practical to buy cars in china.but as a matter of fact ,in some big city in china ,just like shanghai and beijing , large proportion(nealy half) of the passenger cars in the city are personal car.maybe you can not imagine that in order to buy a car ,they will spend 4 or 5years' income ,but the increasing of the urban population in china just happened in recent years ,in the beginning of the 90s most of them ony expected to earn 600$ one year . that means many of the car owners in china have spend nealy 20 years to save up for a car .i can not understand them.

i am not in a english speaking country ,maybe there are a lot of mistakes in my words(i'm practicing my english

) ,i am sorry about that ,and hope you can understand my words.

All Wheel Drive · 08-12-04, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ah64zzp

i agree with you ,it is not practical to buy cars in china.but as a matter of fact ,in some big city in china ,just like shanghai and beijing , large proportion(nealy half) of the passenger cars in the city are personal car.maybe you can not imagine that in order to buy a car ,they will spend 4 or 5years' income ,but the increasing of the urban population in china just happened in recent years ,in the beginning of the 90s most of them ony expected to earn 600$ one year . that means many of the car owners in china have spend nealy 20 years to save up for a car .i can not understand them.

It's the same in Romania. An average working class family must spend its 5 to 10 years income to buy a new Romanian made car, and that's not a good and reliable one.

My father bought his second car after 20 years from its first. And that's because he won at a quiz show. He still has it's first... And my folks are teachers at high school... by the way.

All that just to say that there are different worlds out there.

But what's in China amazes me.