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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 10 Jun \ parent \ on: America’s Cheapest New Cars in 2025 Cartalk
TATA? Same safety and quality standards?
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28 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter 10 Jun
No not TATA. Maruti builds cheapest car and they are very popular. Tata builds the safest 5 star NCAP rated car that can be bought for as low as $5ks.
Because you mentioned about cheapest, so I just told about cheapest here.
What safety features and quality standards? My car is a compact SUV. Its NCAP 5 star rated and I paid around $10k for it. It's quality is quite good imo.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 10 Jun
Yeah, I'm not totally sure either. It'd be cool to know what it would cost to build an identical Mitsubishi Mirage in India for a good comparison. But that's probably a pain to figure out, and then you've got taxes. Another way to look at it would be how many minimum wages it takes to buy the cheapest cars in the US versus India.
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22 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 10 Jun
Mirage isn't available in India markets but I can tell you that many foreign brand's models are sold in India and US with the same specifications and the price is also almost similar for them. You can search for Hyundai Tucson for the reference. However these cars aren't cheap ones, not at least for India.
For similar to Mirage you can see cars from India from this link. https://www.cardekho.com/carmodels/Tata/Tata_Tiago Their starting price is $6k.
Many foreign companies including Ford and Chevrolet tried to compete with Indian brands but they did not get succesful. The main reason imo was that they couldn't grasp on the mentality of India's consumer. You can easily find a very rich man driving a very cheap car in India. I mean Indian's don't buy things just for luxury other than gold.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @fm 10 Jun
if only was that simple.. let me put you an example.. Levi´s trousers same model - 50 eur Morroco 110 Spain.. Same model, same material, same safety
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 10 Jun
I understand the point, but when it comes to standards, cars are a whole different ballgame compared to clothes.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 10 Jun
I never had the chance of driving a euro car made in china, but i guess a bmw here and there is mostly the same. But when they have 70% or 700%( tech) gross margins, the price is a game of adjusting to local cost of life and ability to get more credit. Fiat being fiat…
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