Camaro to be Launched in China as 科迈罗 (Ke Mai Luo)

[PoorMansCamaro]

Originally Posted by kbui

Chinese have a problem with the R's in their speech. LUO is the closest they can get to RO....I have Chinese friends that always have problem saying "fried rice"

i thought they had a hard time saying "l"'s?

[Avalnch]

For anyone who has travelled extensively in China, you will know how completely chaotic driving is there. But the one bright side is that there is almost no traffic enforcement in China and millions of miles of paved roads.

Driving the highways of China is like running a Nascar race. You're nose to tail with the guy in front of you and as soon as you get a fender's length ahead, you can go ahead and cut in. I've had hired drivers pass a slow moving dump truck with his car's hood about 2 feet under the dump truck's rear overhang! YIKES!

[redbeard]

on google translate I accidentally typed in Ke Mai Lou and after a bit of checking it came back as "Buy Passenger F"

[FastEddie]

I look forward to leading a certain other company in sales and seeing what they do with them, how they mod them, what they get out of them (HP), and if they rave over them as much as we do. ..

[efpardo]

Not sure what the Camaro might cost in China but in Brasil it's around 170's. I'm told.

[oldfriend]

Originally Posted by whitessrs

Yeah and everyone knows what happens when they sell something to a foreign country and they like it.... We suffer from it,our prices go up, and we have less supply. I say keep the camaro (an American revolution) in the USA!!! Just my 2 cents!!

YOU GOT IT WRONG MAN , THE SUPPLY WILL BE THE SAME ,BUT DEMAND WILL GO UP , SEE NOW ?

[RedJewel2011]

Originally Posted by Tran

科迈罗 (Ke Mai Luo) doesn't really mean anything, it's just a phonetic translation of "Camaro." It will be interesting to see how well the car sells in China's huge potential market!

GM release:

RMB 500k? Man....

That's close to $80k here... for a V6? Way too much, for me it is! Not to those CHINAman cousins over there..... Good for GM, & the dealers over there... I think also good for the people over there, to have a taste on American Muscle I guess.

[RedJewel2011]

Originally Posted by Avalnch

For anyone who has travelled extensively in China, you will know how completely chaotic driving is there. But the one bright side is that there is almost no traffic enforcement in China and millions of miles of paved roads.

Driving the highways of China is like running a Nascar race. You're nose to tail with the guy in front of you and as soon as you get a fender's length ahead, you can go ahead and cut in. I've had hired drivers pass a slow moving dump truck with his car's hood about 2 feet under the dump truck's rear overhang! YIKES!

I wouldn't say no enforcement, maybe you're not in the city, every traffic light's got a camera!

[1Camaro2SS]

There is no way the Chinese will drive a camaro. If it ain't Japanese, they ain't buying it. I've worked with Chinese folks in engineering for the last 15 years and every single one drives a Honda or Toyota. They think American cars are junk.

[hughesyaoy]

Originally Posted by 1Camaro2SS

There is no way the Chinese will drive a camaro. If it ain't Japanese, they ain't buying it. I've worked with Chinese folks in engineering for the last 15 years and every single one drives a Honda or Toyota. They think American cars are junk.

I'm Chinese and I drive Camaro...in Canada, but i won't pay $80000 for a V6 camaro in China

[ck204]

Well, the V8 Camaro SS have been selling for as much as 1.3 million RMB, and V6 used to cost about 700K RMB. (The unofficial imported ones in China)

There are tons of really nice cars like M3, 911, GT-Rs in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai, while the Camaro is not as nice as the cars I mentioned(let's face it, Camaro is a great car but it's not the same class like cars like M3, 911, and GT-R), it's a lot more rare and really stands out. Some of the rich people in China will pay the extra bucks to get a nice car that's a little more rare. And money is not an issue to a lot of them.

Plus, the 'Transformers' effect will also boost Camaro's recognition in China. so if GM is smart, they should release a special edition Camaro in China that's the exact same as the Transformers 3 Bumble Bee and charge a 25-30% premium for it, and people will buy it.

[King Sun]

Can't say I wasn't expecting some of these "colorful" comments but its good for gm.

[Blade]

Originally Posted by truth411

Its because of China's insane Import taxes. IMVHO America should be doing the same thing, its a big reason our imports far out wiegh our exports. Also generaly speaking when you by foriegn the money goes over seas compared to buying domestic. If America had the same Taxes domestic products sales would shoot through the roof.

Well I know why the mark up happens...........I want one of the jobs these clowns have that can pay 75k+ for a v6 camaro

[trunto]

Originally Posted by Tran

They didn't change the name, 科迈罗 is just the Chinese name for it (in Chinese).

BUMP!


It is a marge translaton, most of the US or European stuff is translated, because it means somethign very different in chinese....some food etc. meant like shit or penis etc....so they had to change it..

Or would you go into a bar and call out: Hey, 10 Penis for me and my frineds!