Twin Buick Drifters in Zhejiang, China

[AfrikaaBombeetza]

LAO HAI !!!!

[Hongers1]

this is not drifting, these dumbass, you need a rear wheel drive to drift, they are just doing skids

[bravozulu51]

Thats not real drifting.... this is kids stuff.

[mistyken]

buick drifting....one of its kind i guess.

[RSX3883]

Better than what I expected...not too bad!

[dmx011]

these are not buicks by north america's standards they look like some crappy offshore car

[ededdynova]

not really drifting guy is it more alot of lift off over steer and hand break use in a FWD poo car!

[poplockkorea]

damn look how polluted the place is..

[tomatokaka]

俩个神经病

[johnramba]

Awesome drift!! Greetings from Greece :))

[mynameisphunk]

Pretty impressive for FF econoboxes.

[cismok]

Most cars in Chinese market are sold in urban area around coastal province, where car ownership falls in 100-200/1000. Large population has contributed a large base for car market. In the meantime, trains remain the primary way for long-distance travelling, low car ownership has caused traffic jams and pollution, and that's why these years China invest alot in railway construction.

[stephensamperi]

those "buicks" remind me SO MUCH of some small asian economy car i see every day.....it can't be....NO!!!

RE-BADGING!!!!! the horror!!

[cismok]

That's made by GM Shanghai Plant, 180,000 every year, in fact it is Daewoo Lettici

[stephensamperi]

so daewoo still makes cars....that sold cars over here for a year or two but then they just dissapeared. really bad quality though.....i touched the door on a new one at a dealership and the weatherstripping started falling out lol

why is GM using the BUICK brand in China? Everyone forgets about Buick over here, except tiger woods

[cismok]

Almost 10 years ago, GM set up JV and launched its cars in Chinese market with the brand of BUICK, the first one, Buick Regal 3.0L/2.5L is originated from US division, that car once was selling very well and gained GM a word of mouth, so that's why GM still keeps it for this market. Then GM started to use Chevy brand and Cadillac for different market segment since 2002, but until now Buick is still comprising 1/2 of all cars GM sold with a image of middle class cars.

[cismok]

From year 2000 onwards, when Japanese formed joint ventures and built cars in China, GM felt the threat in Class A niche, as the taste of customers here's a bit different, they're fond of engines with low displacement, the results is that GM introduced many Daewoo version including the car in this video from the Korean subsidy acquired in 2002, and produced it at Shanghai plant, at first car owners satisfied with the 1.8L Excelle but then realised that it's not durable and oil efficient,

[cismok]

The sales of Daewoo version stagnates and GM has to introduce car designs from former European division Opel. The regal has been replaced by Opel Insight but still under BUICK, as BUICK and Cadillac are still sound brands in Chinese market, GM is still top 5 seller and gets great bucks of net profit here, and that's why Chinese customers were surprising GM's facing bankruptcy. BTW, as most design of GM and Ford cars come from Europe now, the import of car parts are much more than that from US

[stephensamperi]

dang man, i didnt know all that. thanks.

why do chinese people want small, slow cars with small engines? chinese people here drive big trucks, cadillacs, mustangs and everything else. how much is gasoline there? are you in china?

[stephensamperi]

and chinese people should be glad GM is going into bankruptcy, they have been taking a lot of money and help from our government so they can invest more in China.....since one day it will be the biggest car market and probably every other market once it gets out of communism.

[cismok]

GM Shanghai is a 49:51 JV between GM and its counterpart SAIC, the financial report said GM has recovered all investment in 2002, and use net profits from Chinese division to reinvest there and transfer back to US. It's a profitable biz for GM and its ROI once reached 37% 3 years ago, until 2006 the profit accounts for 1/3 of Gross margin of entire GM, and it is likely to see GM china'll appear in the list of New GM released later this year, that's a good deal to make money. However, recent

[cismok]

recent survey suggests half of GM's potential customers in Chinese market worry about its after-sale service, as they mistakenly deem protection under CH11=Insolvency, probably the biz'll continue as usual. BTW, most Chinese don't believe there's comm, the economic model in fact it's 'state capitalism' that's similar to Russia. The market is a bit controversial, temporary the sales is 1st, and last year it's 9 Milli, but ave. car ownership is 17/1000, 800+/1000 in the US

[cismok]

Long story to tell, before 2000, most pessenger cars were consumed by gove officials, so they don't care about gas consumption, but later when private customers became the majority to buy a car, they have to consider MPM(there uses the gauge of Liters/100KM). In fact, the ave. purchasing power of Chinese are still low, the wage level is about 1/6 of States, while CPI is about 1/5 and varies from region and class of good, the petrol(Unleaded, Octane 93%) cost around 6 RMB/L equiv. to $0.9/L, so

[cismok]

oil is still considered to be expensive for general people, so they prone to choose small cars, so the cars there averagely has 1.4L engines, recently 1.6L is most favourite. In addition, most Chinese people use their cars mainly for short trips around city, and jams are met everyday as a result of shortfall between road capacity and the real usage in the downtown, plus many people risk traffic rules to further reduce the speed, hence horsepower is not as demanding as that in North America.

[cismok]

Later on, Chinese market usually has a stereotype of gas guzzle on big engines that shaped decades ago when gov cars dominated, now except those 'new richs', even the luxuries have small engines such as Mercedes, it has introduced a S-series with 2.5L but has the same interior and accessory devices with S600.

[cismok]

I'm not in China recently.

[stephensamperi]

i hope they are driving large cars. but some other guy on here said they were mostly driving these tiny ones that are in the vid. Russia and China should make some nice large cars, that would be interesting

[fdxnaoseinomes]

men i want a buick too, but i tink i prefer my civic :)

[tokodelapansembilan]

That is FF drift........ so FF car still can drift.... but i dont know in china we can drift.... how about the police... or comrade mao let them drift?

[chief2001]

Thats no buick, its the GM daewoo junk they forced companies to sell. Example: Suzuki Forenza (thank goodness suzuki no longer has to sell GM Daewoo cars), the daewoo model itself and these 2 Buicks. For what they cost, no loss if they crash them. HAHAHAHA

[driftmotion]

lol...fuck FWD ass draggers

thats not drifting

[mrclown88]

As opposed to the rwd powersliding you call drifting?

It takes a lot more car control to handle a fwd car as these guys are doing then does to give a rwd a boot full of throttle and kick the end out.

[driftmotion]

so you call that shit drifting

you are fucking retarded

u got alot of researching to do

[terrorhunter]

did they just drift past a police car at the end? hahaha

[terrorhunter]

OMG!!! hahaha never knew a buick could drift haha. cool stuff guys

[mumyoryu]

Background music is Joe Satriani - Mind Storm

[mario9298]

Coooooooooool-!! nice guys n nice driving.

buick's e-brake freakin' good!

[JivePua]

actually, not that bad of a video.

[kainanliu]

lol, buick can use this as their tv ad.

[menasaur]

awesome for ff cars

[supremewhip]

HOLY SHIT

[breandanwang]

what is the background music