Featured Americans eye banned Chinese EVs

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Isaac Zachary, Jun 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM.

  1. Isaac Zachary

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    Amid rising fuel and car prices in the USA, some are longing for those banned Chinese EVs.


    Just a thought, if I were to buy a new Corolla, the cheapest I found within a few hundred miles from here is just over $23,000 which would be over $300 a month including a trade-in and about that same amount for the insurance just for the wife and me, plus at least $150 per month in fuel costs. Add in saving for tires and doing normal maintenance and suddenly I'm not that far from $1,000 per month. Or I can take off about $100 per month if I get a used one.
     
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    It would seem people that want to buy an imported car of any kind - never contemplate whether there is service for that vehicle or not.
     
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    msm propaganda
     
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    You got that right. I drove 70 miles in the Nissan Leaf (made it with barely any charge left) to the closest Nissan dealership/service center to have a key made to be told that they couldn't do that because they didn't work on EVs at that service center.

    Chinese, non-chinese: it doesn't matter. If it's an EV, or pretty much any modern car, it's pretty much non-repairable unless you do it yourself. Even budget cars like Ford Escapes: the transmission blows up on those at around 70,000 miles and any shop is going to want $9,000 to fix it. Car repairability is a joke anymore.
     
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    I bought two cars from manufactures with 100,000-mile engine and powertrain warranties with all other components warranted for 5 years and 60,000.

    The A/C went out on one at 45,000 miles the condenser failed taking out the A/C compressor with it - covered under warranty - charge to me for leak testing and dye/ new condenser/compressor/complete recharge/new filter /new tire damaged when technician ran over a sharp object and 25 hours labor= $0.

    Both vehicles in a combined 12 years and over 100,000 miles required 1 other repair (a downstream 02 senser I replaced myself). Of course normal maintenance was provided on each vehicle.

    While buying cars is a bit of a crap shoot researching before buying to find reliable cars with great warranties can give peace of mind, minimize repair costs/inconveniences, give reliable transportation.

    Many modern cars are easy to repair and made to give great service - many times exceeding 100,000's of miles of mostly trouble-free usage.

    When the downstream oxygen senser failed - the car check engine light came on and I took it to Auto Zone to read the code - they were glad to do it- read the code gave me a printout telling me the code what it meant and the component that needed to be replaced. I replaced the senser the code reset and no problems since. The sophisticated diagnostic in modern cars is an excellent assistant to getting you back on the road.
     
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    meh.

    This week people are butt-sore about import restrictions on ChiComm cars.
    Next week the same "news" companies will be shocked that Toyota is illegally collecting private data on their victi....er(*) I mean customers.

    You LITERALLY can't make this stuff up..... :ROFLMAO:
     
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    Those must have been new cars. I've never bought a new car and have never had a car with a warranty other than a good-for-nothing dealer add-on that didn't cover the issue I had with the car.

    According to Dave Ramsey I shouldn't be looking at any car more than $5,000 in price. I doubt I'd be able to get a car with a warranty for that price.
     
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