This is the cheapest price for one anywhere in Australia
Yep, Costco sell cars, in partnership with Autoconnect
From what I seen, reviewers judged the Omoda 5 as being ok to drive, but marred by overly intrusive lane assist beeping, which was resolved by a software update.
Lol who cares
CCP probably will block your link on their end due to receiving too much meaningless scum talking :)
Is there any car manufacturer out there that actually open-sources their up-to-date core software or adopt an open-source, non-proprietary one?
No offence intended but don't think too highly of yourself as a car buyer, all they want is the money.
Is there any car manufacturer out there that actually open-sources their up-to-date core software or adopt an open-source, non-proprietary one?
That would be bad business.
Make your own car or just walk. Try finding a car or any electronics that doesn't have any Chinese component in it. The device you used reading this is also linked to CCP based on your logic.
Apple is linked to Biden/Trump oligarchy, so I will not spend my money on them (don't be hypocrite as them ;)
i wasn't aware biden/trump were using uyghurs and falun gong as spare parts for failed organs
@ProlapsedHeinous: No, they just invade sovereign nations for their oil and gas, devastating their populations and economies.
don't be hypocrite as them
You clearly have no idea how anything works in real life…
Holden and Ford in enabled the US to rort Australian tax payers $4B AUD in bailouts, back when money was worth something, but you're concerned about the CCP doing the opposite by giving people cheaper subsidised cars?
Holden and Ford in enabled
Not Holden and Ford, you and me by voting for the people that enabled it. That is the difference,
you're concerned about the CCP doing the opposite
I'm concerned that an autocratic regime is using it's economic weight to gain power and control in our relatively powerless country. Once you lose freedom, you can't get it back very easily. If you want examples go find an East European immigrant over the age of 50 to explain it to you.
@1st-Amendment: Well they didnt say anything when we exclusively made engines for their third gen Buick Park Avenue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Park_Avenue
Why do we need to say anything when its the other way around??
Well they didnt say anything
Who is they? Criticism of autocratic regimes has been going on since they were invented. Just because you're new to the conversation doesn't mean everyone else is.
when we exclusively made engines
Who is we? How many engines have you made?
Why do we need to say anything when its the other way around??
This comment makes no sense. Could you repeat it, this time in English?
We live in a globalized world where national borders no longer limit business operations. Let's look at Volvo as an example since you mention it….
Volvo Cars has been owned by the Chinese company Geely Holding Group since 2010. Despite this, Volvo operates largely independently, maintaining its headquarters and core design and R&D in Gothenburg, Sweden.
They manufacture vehicles in Sweden, Belgium, China, and the USA. Geely’s investment has provided Volvo the financial resources to innovate and expand while preserving its Swedish heritage, and they're doing very well today as a result.
In this case, a Chinese company bought a Swedish company and gave it the financial backing to grow and thrive. While Geely benefits from Volvo's innovation, Volvo also gains access to a vast market and resources. It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement, and I’m comfortable with that.
If you feel that Chinese ownership of Volvo or Polestar is a dealbreaker, that’s your choice. But it's worth noting that Chinese involvement in some form—whether through investment, supply chains, or partnerships—is almost unavoidable in any complex or technical product today.
If you feel that Chinese ownership of Volvo or Polestar is a dealbreaker, that’s your choice.
And this is the crux of the issue. We are lucky enough to have a choice, and a lot of people would like to continue to have the freedom to have choices That option may not always be available if we don't ensure that it is protected. There's plenty of examples throughout history of how this could play out if you let it.
is almost unavoidable in any complex or technical product today.
Because we have weak leaders that allowed it to happen. We can just as easily not allow it if we had stronger leaders.
CCP spying on my car : does this guy actually go to Kmart 6 times a week, and then McDonald's at 3am.
The front grill of this car triggers my trypophobia.
lol, ccp subsidised takeover of the world's cheap and cheerful motor vehicle market.
be aware that profits may be used to fund ccp military spending after lining the pockets of ccp officials.
Actually, I’d edit my comment to say that you’re right, either the EV manufacturers are state-owned, or the people that founded them used to be or are currently in the CCP.
I’d still buy them if either they open source their cars and/or software so at least the spying they do on you is at least tolerable and/or others can make EVs better, or there is a way to strip out their internal computers and replace them with open-source alternatives such as the RK3588.
the ccp shills are strong on this site, mostly chinese o/s students.
I agree. Obvious CCP bots at work here—no point arguing. Just recognize this is another subpar, subsidized Chinese product being pushed. Buyer beware.
Sadly this is the place where being a tightarse overrides any morality. People will wake up when they wake up.
What a bunch of morons with CCP comments show how ignorant most Aussies are. At least the CCP did not supply weapons for "confirmed" genocide and apartheid regimes like the US Gov.
I really find it the whole argument that other countries use China's economic stimulus as an excuse for their own weak economy and years of poor economic policies. Want clean, advanced economies and offloaded everything to China for cheap labour.
Our Aussie tax payer money got wasted on Holden and Ford which ended up in America which was state-subsidise manufacturing too. Our manufacutirng industries were uncompetitive in terms of cost and quality. China's vertical integration is unmatched in the world.
Stop being foolish and buy into the US narrative "blame China" campaign.
I suspect his grass may be a lot closer to reality than yours.
You just talked contradictory trash.
Just say you prefer to be a US puppet.
Mate this is ozbargain. We don't GAF and I'm pretty sure at least half the users here are younger Chinese immigrants who grew up with a positive view of the CCP / indoctrinated.
Very selective arguments. You speak of ignorance Soul Fresh, take a long hard look in the mirror. The CCP have no issue with genocide. To imply they do is laughable. Uyghurs among other ethnic minorities in China would attest to it, let alone a sizable portion of the generations that existed before the CCP came to power. In the millions. The suffering, persecution, death is staggering. To this day people still flee where they can and even get harassed by CCP cronies in other countries including here. You should know better.
The CCP under the table dealings empowering North Korean, Russian, Iranian etc militaries inflicting untold cruelty & death. Even to this day, they circumvent sanctions to assist Russia with the invasion of Ukraine with the supply of critical components. How you can have such strong opinions and not know this is something you should reflect on, although i'd wager you full well do know and are just using this to have a whinge at uncle sam (which would be warranted in isolation).
This is not to discount anything the US does in any way, which of course has a long god awful rap sheet. But to imply the CCP are any less nefarious and cruel is mind bogglingly ridiculous. They just go about it in a more subversive way, strictly control their own media, and western media has largely had little interest let alone the competency to do proper journalism in recent times.
To compare China's "economic stimulus" to Australia's is also absurd. It's idiotic. Propping up a local industry is one thing and can be done for many domestic reasons. Strategically doing so with the purpose of flooding foreign markets using anti-competitive means as a way to dominate market share, destroy their industries, and weaken other states by creating reliance is a whole other matter!!! It's a total different game they are playing. And thats not even getting into the shocking debt trapping they have done to destroy smaller nations to in effect become little more than vassal states.
The population of Uyghurs in 1982 is 6 million, and after your so-called genocide, it is now 12 million. Simple math.
And what is happening this century - particularly the last 7 years?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/619931/china-number-of-m…
This is due to the CCP moving Han chinze to Xinxang province. Not to Uyghur having children. But nice try propagandaa dude
@eman resu: Nope, he said the population of Uyghurs, not population in Xinjiang. You just need to learn how to read and process information, uneducated dude.
They’re still debt trapping Africa, the whole story is so (profanity) up with the promise of jobs and no poverty.
China doing to the rest of the world what big banks have been doing to every day aussies for decades..at least they are building things that might be useful instead of handing out credit to buy iphones
Lol, did the western countries even try to pretend to provide help?
Thoughts like yours are the exact reason why the global south call western countries hypocrisy.
Did you ever (profanity) provided aid to Africa?
@FOX: Don’t think I’m gonna have a geopolitical argument with a an idiot on a bargain forum.
But keep on defending genocidal china if it makes you feel better. :)
So many people are suffering because of C C P persecution www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1222/
They can't handle the truth…………………..
China's rise is unstoppable , they have the hunger, and work ethic for success. Even their one party rule works in their favour. Take a look at the US and their joke of a democracy with senators selling their soul to the lobbyists and the rich and the spectacle everytime they need to raise the debt ceiling or any legislation.
US/Europe and the caucasion world is on their down and out in the long term. They/We are too soft, entitled, lazy and self absorbed who think we know it all and know it best . It probably wont happen in my lifetime, but its a slow unstoppable slide.
At least the CCP did not supply weapons for "confirmed" genocide
Lol, this is the same CCP that killed 10's of million of people during the 'Great Leap Forward'? What do they teach you in school these days?
Stop being foolish and buy into the US narrative
Pick up a history book, then you won't sound like bot…
What a weird description, why did you need to tell us about the beeping inconvenience that's already resolved lmfao
Because many people just take youtube reviews as bible
Should I trust a brand which can't even spell Cherry or Cheryl right? 🤔
Or sells a car called Pajero (ie translates to (profanity))
lol, to think I actually owned a Pajero before, I am ashamed!
I would definitely be interested but the membership fee kills it.
Enrol, order and cancel membership , you will get the refund.
That's a few models up from the FX in this deal…
Just note that on this cherry cars they do traditional pricing model where this is base model and anything else you need to pay for. So you final value might be lot more when you add all the standard stuff that comes with other cars.
Most of other cars now simply have three options like base, mid range and premium rather than asking for $1000 for this feature, another $1000 for another feature.
To be honest I'd much rather that than "sorry you can't pick manual transmission and sunroof" etc
Reasonable deal if you want cheap and unremarkable transport, but the front fo that vehicle has been walloped repeatedly with an ugly stick.
its true as I added this to cart, the hot girl at work saw it over my shoulder, threw on the most disgusted look while turning 360d and dabbing the (profanity) out of the room
This or pay twice as much for a Tesla?
Neither … Leave the money in the bank
Pay less than half to buy a used camry
Ah yes! Nothing like used car and knowing your not the first person to fart on the seat.
Or in used car that’s been driven like they stole it. Makes you wonder why anyone buys new. ;-)
Front reminds me of a Range Rover. If it was an ev might consider it.
Ev version is due later this year
Chery assembles Range Rovers for Chinese market and have gotten the "inspiration" there
If anything it looks more like a lexus tbh
The front end reminds me of the mid 2000s ish Lexus look
For some reason, whenever I see this car, I think of the Bob Marley song.
"I shot the Chery…
But I didn't shoot no BYD…"
Buy a cherry, get a chery?
Wtf kind of a name is Chery and Omoda? How hard is it for these Chinese companies to hire an English speaking firm to come up with a desirable name that will appeal to Western tastes?
Oh ffs, you 5 downvoters, get a life
So Chery assembles Range Rovers and Land Rovers for the Chinese market since a decade now. This is where they have upskilled themselves. They aren't doing too bad across the world. And I'd say this is better than a MG. My personal opinion though having driven both cars.
MG is owned by SAIC, which happen to be assembling VW and Audi for Chinese market, just in case you did not know.
Thats really good but my opinion was from driving a MG and a Chery.
I agree Chery is a bit better than MG.
Do they sell the EX version?
Does anyone know or have the list of features?
Does it come with parallel parking assist?
Yikes ,who buys these turds
Am I wrong for being too poor to care about politics and just wanting the best bang for buck?
Nah these days everything is political - it's a minefield out there
too poor? shouldn't have voted for Biden
/s
I wouldn't touch this car with a 5ft pole but I find it funny people are so up in arms about China selling us cheap car, especially given we have no domestic car industry. Would you complain if eneloops were half price? The sinophobic News Corp ''article'' today was beyond hilarious you can almost see the 'red peril' mentality from the cold war era
I got this car and genuinely enjoy it. The interior is much comfier and feels more expensive than a Tesla Model 3's, and while the infotainment isn't as big or fast, it's still great for the price.
Fuel economy is decent for the size of this vehicle, and it runs great.
Don't have anything to complain about so far and it's been a bit over a year now. See how it goes into 5 year.
I did also get 10 years warranty and roadside included, which is quite nice.
If only it was the E5, I don't know why anyone would buy petrol vehicles in this segement any more, unless they can't charge for some reason. Why not pay 5k more and get an MGZS EV and never have to worry about petrol and oil ever again? 2 year service intervals without having to underdo an ICE motor. No worries about stop start driving. It's insane that anyone would think saving 5k is worth that
Not everyone has accessible charging options, think inner city apartments, or perhaps those in rural areas suffer from unreliable power. There are plethora of reasons why EVs (currently) are not the idea choice for some people.
Not just inner city apartments, but almost any apartment built more than 5 years ago won't have EV charging. And lots of people also have houses without off street parking (such as Victorian/Edwardian era houses).
Hey bro, thanks for your feedback. I looked into the MG ZS EV, but it’s more like $9000 more even for base model. Can you shed some more light to it, pls?
it's actually $35K drive away, however you can get it for less if you can lease, check with your work what they can do for you, could end up costing you 5-7k less potentially, plus you only pay appox $120-140/week, and then a final buyout after 5 years of about 14k or so (at a guess). when you add it all up, you won't be paying much more than the 25k and getting a decent model EV with a long warranty and way less hassles.
Just make sure you go over the quote properly, because when I did it through my work they wanted to charge me for all sorts of bull that I didn't need, like the paint protection, redoing it every year, all sorts of mats and stuff, detailing every so often, you don't need all that stuff, and if you ever do just pay for it out of pocket rather than being locked into something. Genuine mats are ok, but everything else is probably a waste. It took my plan at the time down from about 180 to 158 or s so it was a fair difference
i'm hoping this car will help me pop my Chery
Oh dear me … clicked on "Go to Deal" and got an offer for a Polestar … then roll down to a Jeep then down to a Gladiator then down to a Rubicon … are we down in hell already???
Tomorrow I order a new Chinese brand from Kmart,
get a pricebeat from BigW
then another PB from OW
but possibly KmartAuto will service it?
Does it have a full sized PCI-E slot or would I have to run an external GPU?