Whle the $10K price is impressive, the seagull is a tiny car with ~150miles range and a 0-60 time of nearly like 14.5 seconds. It almost certainly would not meet US crash safety standards. BYD also operates with Chinese government subsidies.

The Bolt showed that Americans don’t really buy small cars.  The best it ever sold was like 23k per year.

Did they remember that small cars don’t sell in the US?  Heck, small EV’s don’t sell well in America.  The Bolt, Leaf, e-Mini, e-Golf... no small EV has been a smashing sales success.  None of them.

Please explain how I would benefit from blocking less expensive cars from entering the market and forcing Ford and GM to innovate? Explain it to me like I’m a two-year-old.

Bradley is the smartest guy Bradley knows.  That’s why.

He didn’t say it would be a “bloodbath” if he lost the election! It was directly talking about Chinese manufacturing of cars in Mexico and you still printed it out of context! JFC the guy’s an asshole but at least print the truth.

Sounds like India. They levy 70-100% taxes on imported cars. My 50k 4-series costs over 120k in India. I went and checked in Mumbai and Hyderabad.

Hot take: This is actually a good idea. Chinese companies do not currently sell cars in the US (with the low-vol exceptions of Buick / Volvo / Polestar). So prices won’t rise due to tariff pressure. We’ll simply keep BYD / Geely / etc. out. That does reduce a theoretic future force that would reduce prices, but: IMHO,…

kill federal and state (taxpayer funded) EV rebates, and they no longer make financial sense.

Why take this approach towards your readers? We appreciate your articles, but I’m not sure Jalopnik is the last word in international trade and monetary policy. The commenter raises a reasonable point and your response is a dismissive “Sure bud?”

I’m no fan of trump, but your story is so slanted, it’s not even funny. The issue is bigger than him, it’s ab out international trade with a country known for stealing intellectual property and using it to destroy other nations economies. You need to focus on the REAL issue, not your political views if you want people…

What makes them* so unfair, to say, a vehicle made in Japan or Europe?

And all those savings in maintenance and gas just kind of cancels each other other out because the price of admission is a good 10 - 20K$ higher...The used sector for EVs would be where it’s at.

Why does this site continue to act like vehicles coming in from China would be produced on a “fair” playing field?

What will happen to U.S. auto manufacturing jobs if BYD is allowed to sell in the U.S.? Will BYD build a local manufacturing facility, or are they going to keep manufacturing in China?

Only a $5k premium? Eh, not really.

I 100% agree. He pointed out a lot of typical “first generation” car quirks/bugs, along with a couple of places where they’re just flat out trying new stuff to see if it sticks. Nothing that would seemingly lead to the description of “worst car I’ve ever reviewed,” at least unless you were a brand new car reviewer and…

Brownlee’s review was so disingenuous that I wondered if he was on the take from another manufacturer.

He doesn’t seem like a car person, either, so his idea of what makes a car “bad” is different from someone who’s experienced a Chevy Venture, for example. 

I watched the review and kept waiting for the part that showed how bad the car was. It was all just stupid piddly shit. Just a few random software and user interface type things. I actually thought the car seemed really cool with some interesting and unusual features. The only thing that did seem not so great was the…