China's BYD beats GM and Toyota with first mass market plug-in hybrid

If this ever comes to the US you can kiss goodbye to GM, Ford and Chrysler. Hell id buy this over a volt, the volt is like any other GM probably more than half made in china anyways, might as well go full chinese and get the car for half the price.

Ugly as hell, I have to be blind and have no taste at all to buy this thing.

Remember seeing this at last January's Detroit auto show. They might have the battery technology but will it drive well or be safe? Styling is stolen without apology from the Toyota Corolla, especially in the greenhouse, but it was one of the few Chinese cars on display that didn't mimic the pre-facelift M-B SL's "peanut" headlamps. But this might be the first Chinese car that could give US buyers something we've yet to see: a reason to buy it.

They could've tried to make it look at least less like a Corolla.

The styling of BYD is Ugly, all of you are right on it. To be honest, almost all of the China Mades were copy frome others. We spend so little time on settle the problem of Designning, soul of Chinese Artculture was lost when copy others'. ------That become a joke of you, a tragedy of us.

I don't think GM or Toyota have to worry about sales being stolen from this ugly thing it will probably break like all chinese made crap. Hell they can't even make clothes that don't fall apart let alone something as complicated as a car.

Let me tell somthing i knew, i'm from Taiwan. Things gonna change because the chinese people are not stupid. Today they have thousands of talented students graduated from college. And they work so hard and don't want to be workers for American forever. Believe it or not, the industrial revolution didn't happen since 1978. After 30 years of reform, they create the miracle we can't even believe. Right now, all over the world we face a problem that we have more high pay than chinese people. Besides that, many countries lack for thousands technologists. Like we know, China could get more talents from 13 hundred million, so does India. In India and China, students come from the competitive learning of society. China two hundread years ago, They think they were great,and they were the center of the world. Thus, they were losing power. Americans are just like that. Why does this super power collapse suddenly? Think twice! Taiwan is so small. If we have same conditions like China, we can prevail American in many ways. What i mean is China rising is not an coincidence. They study and work hard. As pupil in Asian, they have lots of homework and books to do. American don't know asian students how hard they've been studied,who burns midnight oil everyday. I remember a old motto says "No gain,no pain." Things really change. Let's get used to it. They just deserve it! God helps those who help themselves.