Reuters recent interview with Elon Musk, he said: "Chinese cars will pretty much demolish most other car companies in the world without trade barriers", then he said "Chinese cars are extremely good" The western companies can't not compete with Chinese companies. So they will implement trade barriers.
14 grand is a steal for that performance, especially 100km of EV range. They should put in some sound deadening, NVH improvements and good tires and sell it for 16k...
@@Rapradayou know why Tata Nano lost sales ... because the media referred to it as the cheapest car instead of the most affordable car. This dude although he does good reviews still has the American mentality of putting words here and there.
That China we talking about here ,they make life easier for everyone both Rich and poor ,no one is left behind ,every one feels great with just few cash💸💸
Imagine if these cars could be sold in the west for the prices they sell for in China? It would be great for Western consumers. Who is getting ripped off?
Exactly. You and I know the west will come up with excuses to why we can't offer those here for that price. They are scared shitless probably. I want those cars here.
14 grand is a steal for a car like that. I hope that GM is going to consider bringing something similar to the states at some point. They really need to be the first to bring something shockingly cheap to the market and since they are already doing it in China, it should be easy for them to do. Sell it as the new Chevrolet Spark PHEV in the U.S. for $19,999. People don’t have high expectations for a Spark anyway.
Yeah, even upgrade to US spec. For say whatever the structure and feature. It shall leave planty of margin for GM with price tag of 19990. They are going to sweap the pHEv land scape and wipe the floor with the prius prime. Let alone GM is a major share holder of Wuling. All they need to do is having a board meeting and then the whole thing will get set in motion.
@@林振华-t4v I think the issue is even though GM and SAIC are both joint venture partners, SAIC-GM (the main JV company) builds stuff mostly designed by GM and on GM platforms, such as their Ultium EV platform, but SAIC-GM-Wuling is making cars on platforms which are presumably done by SAIC, not GM, so it will be very difficult for GM to build these cars in any of their other factories for instance here in the US. The design, platform, and required supply chain are just not going to work anywhere other than China. I suppose they could build it in China, slap a Chevy badge on it, and export it, but not to the US with its high tariffs specifically targeting cars built in China. Bit of a shame too, since the Baojun Cloud is essentially a next gen Chevy Bolt, and would do very well in the US market, along with this Wuling Starlight.
@@PonyRx even still, 25% still only puts it at 25 grand. Still cheaper than any other plug in hybrid on the market now. They don’t have to build assemble it in China either. The car has been developed, they have manufacturing facilities in Canada and China that they could use to assemble a cheap car to avoid a tariff if GM really wanted to. But they don’t want to because then they couldn’t keep up the charade that the best they can do is make a Chevy Trax as their cheapest car when they could actually be selling plug in hybrids.
The US Chinese trade war will keep Chinese GM cars like that out of the rest of the world.While China tries to open factories in Other countries around the globe with GM under its SAIC CCP joint venture. Best would be to expect Buick or hope for it to be badge engineered with Buick from a Neighbouring country. As GM fails losing Money depending on China with Buick Biden & Trump will keep all Non American Chinese branded badged cars & Chinese built engineered cars out of the US pushing keeping them in Mexico etc…
they could sell this to other countries without the gas engine at this price and still win!!😅💪 A Toyota Wigo costs about the same but it is much smaller and not an EV
@@yudogcome5901 A person cannot, by statute, import vehicles available in Mexico to the USA. It is only a matter of time until Chevrolet decides to sell something other than the cartoon trucks and Wuling will be a welcome family member.
totally wrong, wuling is not sub brand of GM, GM does not own wuling, it only has a joint venture with wuling for a wulin mini EV, and GM is actually using Wuling's EV technology and battery, other than this mini EV , GM has no connection to wuling, which produce all kind of EV and deseil car
I'm in Colorado...I WISH WE COULD BUY BYD NIO XPENG etc here in the USA! 😭😭😭 But, our US regime bribed by Unions and the big 3 can't compete...so they use Natl Security to hide behind protectionism!
Wuling builds whatever the consumer wants. Xing Guang is their first sedan under the Wuling branding. I should say it is a bold attempt for the brand only built micro vans and SUVs before.
wow the styling on this looks great for the price \\ dealership markups mean NOBODY has gotten the prius prime for MSRP. dealers are a cancer to American culture which already lacks vital public transit options. direct to consumer is the future
I paid $20,000 for a used 2019 Chevy Volt with 15,000 miles. That was 2022. This looks very similar in drive train design but bigger! The Volt were somewhere around $40,000 new. Damn!
Looking forward to see their Starlight wagon version, which was announced a couple of months ago, to me it makes more sense, than the sedan, plus it looks better)
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This is definitely a good price. Imagine a diesel version 👏👏👏
Western brands whether it is ICE or EV is no longer affordable to the vast majority of middle class consumers. The rule of thumb in financial consultation is that you should be able to pay for a new car with just 3 months of your annual salary and if it is longer you are living beyond your means ! Financing a new vehicle in North America has risen from 3-5 years to now 5-7 years which is totally ridiculous. Automotive manufacturers are now building cars that no one can afford and only Chinese cars can put an end to all this madness !
I would kill for some of these Chinese cars! Defo want a Lynk and Co 03, but NZ is such a small market that nothing filters through unless it goes through Aus first, and they are too obsessed with Utes and pickup trucks to bother with sedans...
We are asleep in the west while China blazes ahead. It's hilarious and sad. That thing would be 40-50k here. I'd buy one of these tbh. Here in Canada for that money you'd be lucky to buy a cardboard box on wheels. Wuling is hitting a sweet spot here for entry level EV's because not everyone needs to be spoiled by 100k plugins.
Stay away from Chinese EVs !Many of them are of bad quality ! In China quantity goes before quality !The are only tested on tracks and not in the city or elsewhere where they will be driving .
The new ev sedan SU7 from Xiaomi will be officially launched on 28th March. The company used 576 SU7 prototypes for on the road testing under various different kinds of terrain and weather. They accumulated almost 5.4 million km on day to day on the road testing. The CEO drove one of these by himself in winter, on a 1270 km road trip from Beijing to Shanghai to test its endurance. He said the 1270 km journey took 15 hours to complete, needing to recharge just twice. So yes the Chinese put their evs through a lot of road tests under different conditions.
That Thing in the western World for sth like 20K€ or $ would be the top selling car. Its just crazy.
Reuters recent interview with Elon Musk, he said: "Chinese cars will pretty much demolish most other car companies in the world without trade barriers", then he said "Chinese cars are extremely good"
The western companies can't not compete with Chinese companies. So they will implement trade barriers.
Just bought a BYD Dolphin to my daughter here in Malaysia 🎉
Congratulations
@@hillsideonly Thank you 😊
GM, this is what we need in Brazil.
14 grand is a steal for that performance, especially 100km of EV range. They should put in some sound deadening, NVH improvements and good tires and sell it for 16k...
upto 16k，there are too many competitors
Or you can buy and fo the upgrades yourself. Also a steal.
Cheapest? No! Most affordable? Yes
Well if you compare it to a rickshaw of course it’s not cheap.
How’s it not the cheapest ? Name a brand new car the same price
its the cheapest, even cheaper than MG
@@Eye-it-azz BYD Qin plus dmi, 79.8 k RMB.
@@Rapradayou know why Tata Nano lost sales ... because the media referred to it as the cheapest car instead of the most affordable car. This dude although he does good reviews still has the American mentality of putting words here and there.
the fact that this car costs less than my macbook blows my mind
That China we talking about here ,they make life easier for everyone both Rich and poor ,no one is left behind ,every one feels great with just few cash💸💸
i tot it was a chery because the front grill looks like the omoda we have here in SEA
Yeah i hate those headlights, i like wuling's traditional front grill
wuling也是个老厂了，而且车子贼结实。
Great vid. Looking forward to your BYD Qin+ review
If exported, this will destroy many car vendors.
Imagine if these cars could be sold in the west for the prices they sell for in China? It would be great for Western consumers. Who is getting ripped off?
Exactly. You and I know the west will come up with excuses to why we can't offer those here for that price. They are scared shitless probably. I want those cars here.
14 grand is a steal for a car like that. I hope that GM is going to consider bringing something similar to the states at some point. They really need to be the first to bring something shockingly cheap to the market and since they are already doing it in China, it should be easy for them to do. Sell it as the new Chevrolet Spark PHEV in the U.S. for $19,999. People don’t have high expectations for a Spark anyway.
Yeah, even upgrade to US spec. For say whatever the structure and feature. It shall leave planty of margin for GM with price tag of 19990. They are going to sweap the pHEv land scape and wipe the floor with the prius prime. Let alone GM is a major share holder of Wuling. All they need to do is having a board meeting and then the whole thing will get set in motion.
@@林振华-t4v I think the issue is even though GM and SAIC are both joint venture partners, SAIC-GM (the main JV company) builds stuff mostly designed by GM and on GM platforms, such as their Ultium EV platform, but SAIC-GM-Wuling is making cars on platforms which are presumably done by SAIC, not GM, so it will be very difficult for GM to build these cars in any of their other factories for instance here in the US. The design, platform, and required supply chain are just not going to work anywhere other than China.
I suppose they could build it in China, slap a Chevy badge on it, and export it, but not to the US with its high tariffs specifically targeting cars built in China. Bit of a shame too, since the Baojun Cloud is essentially a next gen Chevy Bolt, and would do very well in the US market, along with this Wuling Starlight.
Unfortunately the 25% tariff on chinese built cars push it above that $20k price point even before the cost of federalizing it
@@PonyRx even still, 25% still only puts it at 25 grand. Still cheaper than any other plug in hybrid on the market now. They don’t have to build assemble it in China either. The car has been developed, they have manufacturing facilities in Canada and China that they could use to assemble a cheap car to avoid a tariff if GM really wanted to. But they don’t want to because then they couldn’t keep up the charade that the best they can do is make a Chevy Trax as their cheapest car when they could actually be selling plug in hybrids.
The US Chinese trade war will keep Chinese GM cars like that out of the rest of the world.While China tries to open factories in Other countries around the globe with GM under its SAIC CCP joint venture. Best would be to expect Buick or hope for it to be badge engineered with Buick from a Neighbouring country. As GM fails losing Money depending on China with Buick Biden & Trump will keep all Non American Chinese branded badged cars & Chinese built engineered cars out of the US pushing keeping them in Mexico etc…
they could sell this to other countries without the gas engine at this price and still win!!😅💪 A Toyota Wigo costs about the same but it is much smaller and not an EV
0:12 take purchasing power parity in to account before comparing prices in nominal terms
Very great and interesting review.
Looks amazing!
A good value car from Wuling!
So affordable. Great car.
Impressive package specially with 105km of EV range and an NA engine
Good to see u review affordable cars TOO. Pls consider reviewing these as well:
Nissan Selphy HEV (1.2 lit NA 3-cyliner+single Speed trans)
JAC QX PHEV (1.5 lit 4 cylinder NA+ecvt)
Tiggo 7 PHEV (1.5 lit turbo+DHT trans)
Changan Deepal s7 PHEV
SAIC Roewe erx5 PHEV (1.5 turbo+10-speed AMT)
Chery Omada e5 EV
Geely geometry EV
Neta U
MG3 (Hybrid)
Changan cs35
Jetour X70 plus
Fun fact: Wuling is a sub brand of GM hence why this car kinda looks like a Cadillac, GM can bring this car to US if they want to
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@@yudogcome5901 A person cannot, by statute, import vehicles available in Mexico to the USA. It is only a matter of time until Chevrolet decides to sell something other than the cartoon trucks and Wuling will be a welcome family member.
Not if your government has anything to say about it
You have to rebadging it...
totally wrong, wuling is not sub brand of GM, GM does not own wuling, it only has a joint venture with wuling for a wulin mini EV, and GM is actually using Wuling's EV technology and battery, other than this mini EV , GM has no connection to wuling, which produce all kind of EV and deseil car
China is taking the ev induatry in the same path that the mobile phones followed.
This is good for me , drive to work & back
I'm in Colorado...I WISH WE COULD BUY BYD NIO XPENG etc here in the USA! 😭😭😭 But, our US regime bribed by Unions and the big 3 can't compete...so they use Natl Security to hide behind protectionism!
It won't work for them forever. I cant wait for these kinds of cars to arrive here.
200%tax..... Take that
Wuling builds whatever the consumer wants. Xing Guang is their first sedan under the Wuling branding. I should say it is a bold attempt for the brand only built micro vans and SUVs before.
wow the styling on this looks great for the price
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dealership markups mean NOBODY has gotten the prius prime for MSRP. dealers are a cancer to American culture which already lacks vital public transit options. direct to consumer is the future
But it will cause national security concern if sold in west, right?
This could quite literally be the new generation Chevy Malibu if GM really fancy
I paid $20,000 for a used 2019 Chevy Volt with 15,000 miles. That was 2022. This looks very similar in drive train design but bigger! The Volt were somewhere around $40,000 new. Damn!
You can help me buy and export a chinese vehicle, but can it be right hand drive like in Australia?
Looking forward to see their Starlight wagon version, which was announced a couple of months ago, to me it makes more sense, than the sedan, plus it looks better)
This is definitely a good price. Imagine a diesel version 👏👏👏
They should work on their car designs more than ever especially when Chinese brands have garnered international attention.
Chery Omoda 5 front and Kia EV6 rear
Hey Ethan, apart from another stellar review I also noticed your sweet iPhone case. Where could I get one?
Glad you like the case! It’s made by a brand called Nomad.
good review !
I like the color midnight purple! 👍
Yo @Wheelsboy come to Nepal🇳🇵with one of these new Chinese cars. Preferably a offroad vehicle and see how they perform in actual offroad😅
Are you sure?
Asking again: when you buy a Chinese car for export, do they change the system language to English?
Should be able to if you buy from a larger company I reckon haha
That depends on the specific car, email sales@wheelsboy.cn if you want to learn more.
Western brands whether it is ICE or EV is no longer affordable to the vast majority of middle class consumers. The rule of thumb in financial consultation is that you should be able to pay for a new car with just 3 months of your annual salary and if it is longer you are living beyond your means ! Financing a new vehicle in North America has risen from 3-5 years to now 5-7 years which is totally ridiculous. Automotive manufacturers are now building cars that no one can afford and only Chinese cars can put an end to all this madness !
That musical score didn’t make much sense to me, but it was funny for sure!
So to get one here in the US, I'd have to ship it to Mexico and then drive it home to Massachusetts lol
I would kill for some of these Chinese cars! Defo want a Lynk and Co 03, but NZ is such a small market that nothing filters through unless it goes through Aus first, and they are too obsessed with Utes and pickup trucks to bother with sedans...
Have you noticed that if you flip the two "wings" on the logo it makes the Mitsubishi logo? 😅 Smart
Mitsubishi in Chinese & Japanese means “three diamonds”. Wuling in Chinese characters means five diamonds.
Is this Wuling as indestructible as other Wuling cars?
Keren wuling🎉
the viral "ladies" car haha
Europe has limited the number of how many brands it will allow into its market in order not to be overflowed with cheap EVs !
Seems like it's NVH is simliar to a Honda Civic, but cheaoer and roomier than a Civic.
Looks like a BMW mixed with Kia EV6
China rasa LCGC , semoga masuk Indonesia..!
That's a great price
We are asleep in the west while China blazes ahead. It's hilarious and sad. That thing would be 40-50k here. I'd buy one of these tbh. Here in Canada for that money you'd be lucky to buy a cardboard box on wheels. Wuling is hitting a sweet spot here for entry level EV's because not everyone needs to be spoiled by 100k plugins.
On the long run only BEVs will survive.
GM should OEM this car in US.
It would be like the Volt was, but bigger. The build and handling might be better on the Volt though, from what he's saying.
If only it is available for purchase her, where I live. *Sigh
I hate this new trend of bumper headlights. Cars these days lack art in design
Usually ......., but hey this is China!
Hear me out… Hongqi L5
You might as well tell us to review a Bugatti, that’s how rare those are.
@@Wheelsboymaybe like a future plan from like 3 or 4 years from now on? like the 2024 gen when it becomes available for ordinary citizens to use
They made 400000000000 units in 1 hour. 🤭
civc
I was the 600th clicked “like”
If I import to Canada who will fix anything that needs fixing? China should Open EV dealers here ! 😊
Can't do this, it will seriously damage the national security of the United States.
Beats a Honda Accord
qin plus is cheaper.
They have the exact same starting price of 79,800 RMB, so it’s a tie.
@@Wheelsboy If you count in the discount, the changanqiyuan(IOI) A05 would be the cheapest.
SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile
RIDICULOUS PROPORTIONS with commom full hd tv inside.....🤤......what s that toy????
I disagree. Japanese level of QUALITY engineering is deeply imbedded in their culture and makes massive difference. Chinese on the other hand, 📸 📸 📸
Stay away from Chinese EVs !Many of them are of bad quality ! In China quantity goes before quality !The are only tested on tracks and not in the city or elsewhere where they will be driving .
The new ev sedan SU7 from Xiaomi will be officially launched on 28th March. The company used 576 SU7 prototypes for on the road testing under various different kinds of terrain and weather. They accumulated almost 5.4 million km on day to day on the road testing. The CEO drove one of these by himself in winter, on a 1270 km road trip from Beijing to Shanghai to test its endurance. He said the 1270 km journey took 15 hours to complete, needing to recharge just twice. So yes the Chinese put their evs through a lot of road tests under different conditions.
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