Renault developing a 3000$ car!!!

That means no dealers in Seattle or Portland?

— chuck717 (View Profile)

Posted on 6/15/2007 4:10:56 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

and they'll be available at your local Walmart with a fixed price tag. Don't even need to bargain with a dealer, just show your credit card to the cashier on your way out, sign a few lease/finance documents, she'll give you the keys, and you're on your way home with your brand new $3000 ride (reliability sold separately).

But seriously, wouldn't this be a great way to buy a vehicle instead of being ripped off by car dealers?

— Anti_Bangle (View Profile)

Posted on 6/15/2007 4:58:14 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

what does come with a 1 month 1 thousand mile warranty.

— trd1 (View Profile)

Posted on 6/15/2007 6:04:20 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

It's called Dacia, they already sell it in Romania (produced) and the countries around there .. cheap car for people who need the basic transportation with an decent AC system but can not afford a 10000$ or more. Right now it's about 7000 Euros for a new Logan, they probably wanna do something more basic. Hard to do .. but if they build it in India/China they can do it, people work there for a pound of rice per month.

— rg12345 (View Profile)

Posted on 6/15/2007 9:34:53 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

CHEAP UNRELIABLE it will fall apart like th rest of their cars

— jt716 (View Profile)

Posted on 6/15/2007 10:10:17 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

Rupert,
That's because it's just a xerox of someone else's scooter design. I despise anyone who knowingly buys Chinese to save a few cents. How does Europe feel now that China is about to surpass Galileo w/ their own GPS system to target their nukes on you guys? Still hate missile defense?

Renault will sell for $3K, China will copy, then sell for $0.25 or 3 for a dollar :P Some ppl will be dumb enough to buy 3.

I can see the marketing though, "Absolutely no Europeans were employed in the manufacture of this product". But anyway, $3,000 is a lot in any emerging market. It's not like they'll be selling it to industrialized countries.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 6/16/2007 2:50:55 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

I do not believe that it is possible to manufacture a $3,000 car in any country today. Perhaps a zero is missing and it's really a $30K car in the Saturn Aura price range. If the author really had $3000 in mind, then the cost of capital equipment in manufacturing was excluded in the number-crunching exercise and the projected sales were grossly exagerated.

— EnnNorak (View Profile)

Posted on 6/16/2007 9:46:20 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

With a $3000 car I would start participating in production touring car and rally events. Talk about cheap-man's potential racecar.

— richardp996 (View Profile)

Posted on 6/17/2007 1:25:30 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Renault used to rule Rally racing.
My father sold Renault cars in a small town in Northern Ontario 35 years ago.
I remember a poster on the wall: It had a picture of the Renault Alpine, and results of the 1973 Monte Carlo Rally.
Renault took 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 10th place!
The Alpine had a tiny V6 in the rear, with a redline of 11,000 RPM.
Think about that ... 11,000 RPM in 1973.
Motorcycles didn't rev that high back then!

I drove the crap out of a Renault 12 sedan.
You couldn't kill it.
Logging roads; powerlines; pipelines; off-road (sometimes on purpose, sometimes not); and i once drove 13 people to a high-school dance (counting myself, only a few blocks, 3 in the passenger seat, 4 in the back with 5 sitting on their laps)

They WERE bullet-proof cars ... 1/3 of a century ago...

— DieselRules (View Profile)

Posted on 6/17/2007 2:40:26 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

$3000 EUROs is around US$6000-

The Chinese will be selling cars in the US for about $8000-.
This Renault, designed and built in India for India, will be stripped-down in comparison, so $6000 isn't unreasonable in comparison.

— DieselRules (View Profile)

Posted on 6/17/2007 2:51:33 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

This should've posted yesterday, but autospies has been giving me grief lately.

Liberals/Europeans hate the US and use the coldwar BS argument ignoring the fact it takes two to tango. Why don't they ask why the Russians/Chinese are so offended by a defensive weapon? America's fleets of B2s and Ohios w/ their 9000+ nukes should scare them more than a limited defensive shield.
China is just using Liberal/European stupidity (hook, line and sinker) to slowdown the US while they forge ahead.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/30/pentagon_in_china_space_n_cyber_panic/
Do a search on "China US cyberspace" and you'll see plenty of examples of how China only wants to bring peace and happiness to bargain shoppers.

Also makes you wonder how long the Russians have been working on that new missile they unveiled a few weeks ago. They don't seem to miss the ABM treaty either.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL2961467120070529?feedType=RSS&rpc=22

It's easy to make a $3000 car when you don't need to add any safety features whatsoever, just like its cheaper to build things in China because you don't have to waste money on frivolous things such as worker safety and emissions.

Only thing I buy from Wal-mart is motor oil, filters, wiper blades and depending on the brand, shampoo. Clothing can come from Bangladesh/Vietnam/Mexico etc. However, some things you have no choice.

Last thing, since I get off topic too much wheneve rit comes to China. China is dead scared of entering a coldwar with the US because the US accounts for their entire trade surplus (China has a deficit with everyone else they trade with) and Vietnam/India are more than capable of replacing China's slave labour. I can't think of very many Americans who'd shop at Wal-Mart knowing they're financing the enemy. The Russians are completely dependent on Europe's appetitie for their oil/gas. They also can't dependon China to buy if China loses the US as a market.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 6/17/2007 1:41:28 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

I could have a fleet of twenty Dacia Logans. That would be good fun.

— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 6/17/2007 5:29:20 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1