Carnewschina finally found the reason why supercars are gobbled-up in China with ferocious appetite: Supercar weddings. Getting married and making children is all the rage in China (2 or more children is a special sign of affluence), and don’t you dare showing up by bicycle or taxi if you are invited. You won’t be invited again.
The latest (and it won’t be the last) supercar wedding took place in Huizhou in the very rich Guangdong province, where anything from Samsung flatscreens to Apple iPhones is assembled en masse.
Bride and groom made an appearance in a Bentley Continental Supersport. Guests arrived in four Ferrari 458, three Lamborghini Gallardo, two Porsche Panamera, a Nissan GTR, a Maserati GT MC Stradale, a Rolls Royce Ghost, a Ferrari California, and more. Some of these cars sport the dual China / Hong Kong plates, which are the true sign of affluence.
The Audi R8 was probably driven by the caterer.
More bridal pornography can be ogled here.
The mere fact you don’t see any Chinese “luxury cars” or “Hyundai Equus” shows you exactly how these people feel about their own products.
Frankly, if I was a billionaire, I wouldn’t want to drive what everyone else has or has access too.
The ferraris and Bentleys don’t even marginally raise my interest. We’ve got obvious drug dealers around here in Manhattan who have those.
I’d take a Veyron Super sport, have it chopped, elongated and put in EVEN MOAR POWER. I’d make sure it could hit 300MPH, even if I had to have NASA make me a tire for a few million dollars and I’d label it the one of a kind “Veyron 300”.
“I’d take a Veyron Super sport”
Why not a Corvette or a Lincoln MK-whatever ? Do you not have confidence in your own country’s products ?
And last time I checked, Hyundai were South Korean.
That was awesome…blew my beer out of my nose with that one!
Oh the irony of him not realizing that he didn’t pick a single American luxury car while criticizing the Chinese for picking Euro import luxury cars.
The day you pick an MKS over a BMW is the day you can start trashing the Chinese for not wanting to buy some locally made “luxury” car over an italian exotic.
“The mere fact you don’t see any Chinese “luxury cars” or “Hyundai Equus” shows you exactly how these people feel about their own products.”
Exactly, except it’s not about the “products”. Will they, or us, know the real difference between a Continental and an Equus, other than that the latter is more reliable?
At this price range, you buy image instead of product. A car produced by South Koreans is just no go. Gotta have a Caucasian hand crafted car if you are an Asian.
It’s not even that it is built by a Caucasian. It’s really about how much $$$ a given car costs.
There are countless stories about why someone bought a car, and it almost always comes down to. This one cost more than that one.
This is showing off plain and simple, the name on the car doesn’t matter, all that matters is how much they payed for it. Preferably more than the next person.
In a way it makes sense, so many Chinese people spend so much time bargaining to get the best deal. By paying more for something without bargaining you are saying to everyone that you have so much money that the cost doesn’t matter and you want to show it off. Sort of the reverse of your normal Chinese person.
There are quite a few Maybachs here in Shanghai, but you don’t see those at weddings yet do you? I can’t wait to see the first wedding with 5-10 Maybachs.
And once again, the cure for communist world domination is….living like a Kardashian.
Now, if only 2 or more children, rather than automotive anatomical augmentation devices for blankshooters, would again come to be a status symbol in Japan and The West; maybe those places wouldn’t be so dependent on the Chinese keeping their once great economies afloat.