Chery to Export Three Models to Australia
Ateco is sole importer
Ateco, the exclusive importer of Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Citroen cars in Australia and New Zealand is expanding its line-up with Chinese car maker Chery. The deal has been three years in the making, with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in November 2005.
Ateco hopes to start selling three Chery models by early 2009, namely a light passenger car, a small passenger car and a small SUV. Chery in turn is planning to unveil four models later this year and 38 new models over the next 5 years.
Last year Chery sold 261,000 units in China and exported another 120,000 units. Chery started producing cars back in 1999, in August 2007 they built their millionth car. Chery has a production capacity of 650,000 units and plans to lift that number up to 1 million annually.
“We believe that China represents the future as a source of automotive products which makes this association with Chery a very exciting development for Ateco,” Mr Neville Crichton, Ateco Governing Director, said.
How well do they perform in crash tests? If they're anything like most chinese cars they shouldn't be allowed - some are complete death-traps.
anyone who buys one of these cars deserves to be shot because they are a danger to themselves and others.
Gosh, the way people on this site accuse Chinese cars of being the nefarious products of an uncaring emerging capitalist economy.... You wouldn't be daft to conclude that they must absolutely hate classic cars! After all, old cars didn't suffer the rigorous quality control standards today's cars do, and generally provide -- if at all -- scant safety equipment. The argument is, "Yes, but classic cars have history." And for that reason they are immune to this attack? Apparently vehicular homicide by classic car is okay, whereas the very risk of death by a very misunderstood Chery is villainous.
... What I am saying is, they wouldn't be sold in your country if it were terribly unsafe. You should hate Chery products for better reasons; reasons that can be argued properly; reasons that cannot be empirically disproved! Developed nations do not suffer the same problems as the third world. We have cheap mobility; more importantly, we have reasonably good public transit systems. Many of these public transit systems (i.e. Toronto's TTC) are dangerously lagging behind international standards, and products like Chery undermine the communal will towards improvement! This invariably leads to more congestion, higher levels of pollution, and we are left in a state worse than when we started all because we bought a cheap Chery.
they r the ugliest cars eva!!! i think that they must of missed the release date by 10 years!! XD they wont sell in asutralia...