Chinese automaker plans to assemble cars in Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Chinese automaker plans to assemble cars in Cuba
Progreso Weekly • 27 December, 2013

A leading Chinese automobile manufacturer will start assembling its vehicles in Cuba, the Chinese website Global Times revealed Wednesday (Dec. 25).

The Hangzhou-based Geely International Corporation “is now preparing to launch the SKD [semi knocked-down, or partly put together vehicle] project in a local place” in Cuba, Global Times reported.

The project will be undertaken “at the request of several Cuban ministries,” including Foreign Trade and Investment, Communications, and Metallurgy.

Global Times does not provide a timetable for the project or a site, although the “local place” may very well be the Mariel Special Development Zone, west of Havana, where the vehicles would be assembled.

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[DonCoquixote]

1. and walmart

will sell these cars.

Who would have thought the last two communist nations would be aiding to destroy union labor?

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Special models for trips from Cuba to Florida!

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For Families and friends:



For drug-runners:



For the financially challenged:





CC

[Paolo123]

3. Not as crazy as it sounds

LBJ had one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphicar

[Judi Lynn]

5. That had to startle the bejeezus out of a whole lot of people seeing it for the first time. n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. One of my old college roommates owns an amphibious car

Evidently there are meetups around the country for people who own them.

[Judi Lynn]

4. There's one for every budget! Outstanding. What could be more appropriate? n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. When I was in Cuba, the van that the guide took us around in was made in China

That was one of the revelations from the trip. In photos published in the U.S., all you see are 1950s American cars, and while these certainly exist in large numbers, there are also plenty of newer cars from Europe and China.