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US Automakers Shanghaied

Chevy-chasing 'Chery' to be launched from Shanghai

By Judi McLeod

Monday, March 19, 2007

Like the prom queen in a bumper season of debutantes, the Chery car will be launched at the Shanghai Auto Show April 21-28.

The Shanghai Auto Show is the perfect showcase for the Chery's big debut. Staged only once every two years, it is a major venue for China's fledgling domestic automakers to present new models and prototypes.

Signaling the end of an era in a once proud U.S. automobile industry, the recently crippled industry is, in effect being 'Shanghaied' by a business duo that grew strong in anti-American sentiment even as it indirectly made money from an American market.

CheryWhen they originally teamed up in the business world, it sounded very much as though George Soros and Maurice Strong, who said they'd flood the American market with thousands of Chinese cars by 2007, were dreaming their politics in Technicolor.

But within months of their boasts, Detroit was to become the proverbial ghost town with thousands of autoworkers thrown out of work.

As things were to turn out, Chrysler Group and Chinese automaker Chery Automobile are the proud parents of the model Strong and Soros predicted would soon be flooding the American market.

Off the artist's sketchpad, the AI--an upgraded version of Chery's QQ--will be showcased among the small vehicles that Chery and Chrysler reportedly plan to produce in unison, reportedly for export.

The Chery, designed to hit the market as a sort of "Poor Man's Wheels", straight out of Wal-Mart type bargain basement prices, will be rolling off the assembly time, in a chapter when a beleaguered American auto industry couldn't be any more vulnerable.

The most recent PR preamble of Chery spokesman Wang Wei will send worriers back to sleep.

" `We don't have any plan to launch this product made in cooperation with Chrysler in the North American and West European markets, contrary to what many report', Wang said."(Canadian Press Newswire, March 3, 2007),

Does this mean that the Chrysler group who make a decades long career of putting Americans behind the wheel of American produced cars, will now cater to a larger Chinese market? Or have Soros and Strong merely over hyped Chery's market potential?

Perhaps Americans will be the last to know.

Financial details of the arrangement DaimlerChrysler AG announced when it approved a limited partnership to build cars in China with Chery were never disclosed.

Chrysler also is remaining mum on its immediate plans for specific car models to be made in partnership with Chery.

The A1 is expected to sell for 40,000 yuan to 65,000 yuan, or between US$5,200 and $8,400, China's official Xinhua News Agency has reported.

In Communist China, Chery manufacturers have seen their big dreams of replacing the bicycle as the best means of getting around Beijing come true. Some 50,000 Cherys were sold in China in 2006.

In the US, the plan was to sell 250,000 Cherys in the first year through some 250 car dealerships. But the US target is 1 million Chinese Cherys by Year 2010.

Anti-Americans Strong and Soros are reported to have poured millions in the Chery takeover of US car market scheme.

The made-in-China automobile is not the only sector where Strong is driving full speed ahead into the American economy. As one of the main architects of the Kyoto protocol, his global warming partnership with Al Gore is paving the way for a global warming tax.

The Canadian-born, Strong, a longtime UN poster boy, has also cornered the market on water, which he and his globalist cohorts believe will one day have to be delivered by armed guards.

Meanwhile back in Shanghai, the Chery A1 will be ushered in right after Washington D.C.'s annual cherry blossom festival.

No one knows how the AI got the name Chery.Some say it is a play on the word Chevy, rather than a mockery of Washington's cherry trees.

But symbolism being a recognized globalist trademark, perhaps the owner of the 666th Chery to roll off the assembly line will be presented with a special plaque autographed by George Soros and Maurice Strong.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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