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This is the BYD F0. I’ll leave it to the experts which other car this resembles. It reminds me a bit of that car, but maybe only because it’s so small and red. It should be red. It’s embarrassing.
The dashboard is a bit like this. But that’s what you get when mounting freestanding gauges.
That’s not the point of the story. When this guy climbed of the car, I saw an odd piece of plastic.
This was a door handle. If your car doesn’t survive the first day of the auto show without the door handle getting ripped off …
… if the door handle remains unfixed on the second day of the show, and if your people turn their backs on the problem in their own booth, then you have no business making cars.
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it makes me sad, only because this means that a Volvo having the same problem is pretty damn likely in the foreseeable future.
Right…because a Chrysler having problems would also mean Ford vehicles would have the same problems? There’s a lot more than one car maker in China and they build cars of differing quality.
How do you stuff up a car, let me count the ways, 1 Broken door handle,2 enormous panel gaps twixt door trim and door and 3, after market head rests held on by elastic straps. Fo? more like Po!
Those headrests are hilarious.
4. non-roll down/up windows
At this year’s Detroit Auto Show, the BYD hybrid car on display also had a broken door handle, but also pieces coming off the storage bin under the dash and carpet that was pulling away from the driver’s door sill. These guys are a long way off from selling cars in the US.
If it’s cheap enough, someone will buy it.
Honda Fit in the front, Toyota Aygo in the side, inside, and the back. Ugh such a horrible pink..
Pepto pink: Bring You Down
+1 My thoughts exactly on all three observations.
The body looks like a copycat of a Toyota Aygo, but the assembly quality sure doesn’t.
BYD may have stolen minor design elements from here, there and everywhere, but this is basically the same F0 that they brought to the Detroit show two years ago and it is almost a carbon copy of the Toyota Aygo. Another factoid: They wanted to call it the F1 — guess who sternly talked them out of that?
the Dodge Durango at the detroit show this year had a loose door handle too. not as bad as this, but loose on the exterior and not hitting the strike plate well.
I look forward to the “Hello Kitty” Edition
Even BYD would not copy that. The Chery “Hello Kitty” QQ is several years past.