I understand we need to wait and see about pricing and warranties and the availability of service centres here in Canada, not to mention better understanding of quality issues and of course environmental and human rights issues, but…
Which potential Chinese cars interest you the most to drive here in Canada? Personally I’m tired of soulless cookie-cutter SUV/CUVs and am far more interested in the 4 door coupes and smaller city-cars. Think downtown Montreal cars with personality rather than suburban Alberta parking lots in places like Sherwood Park outside big-box stores.
None of them until there’s infrastructure in place for domestic repair and parts replacement, also at a reasonable cost.
South Korea managed it; China should be able to as well.
(Yeah, I know you put it in the disclaimer, but I’m not even willing to consider the vehicles until there’s local support in place).
That is more than reasonable! Hopefully BYD etc… will learn from their mistakes in Australia - and provide better after-sales-service here in Canada. The article says they’ve sold 85,000 vehicles in Australia, so Canada won’t be that big a market in the first few years though.