The automotive industry is conquering China

They say the difference between a man and a boy is the price of his toys. I turn my gaze and as if it were yesterday I remember those Saturday mornings from my childhood when my father would pick me up home after an examination in room 12 Saint Thomas Hospitalto switch to Morrison House Toy Shop from 4th of July Avenue.

My childish pupils dilated at the spectacle, much like a Christmas birth without it being December, where the variety and quantity of looks seemed endless.

I think my dad, in the background with a transcendent smile, was enjoying the scene with a greater appetite than I was, reminiscing, perhaps, of his early years. With the patience of a lion who, after analyzing his surroundings, is ready to pounce on his prey, Toño lurked by the box and made me choose a toy from the bundles I had accumulated in the cart, something I imagine he would have done with my mother in fastlicht jewelrywhere the bill was certainly more difficult and refusal could have fatal consequences.

My first car was a used Ford Capri that I bought for $1,600 on a lot full of bunting. Reds in Fremont, Nebraskaduring the summer of 1974.

This resulted in a breadth of freedom during my time university studiesswitching bulky 8-Trac tapes to listen between the ballads of The Beatles, the marvelous Barry White with his theme Can’t Get Enough of Your Love Babe and Sweet Home, Alabama performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Changes in the North American automotive market were already evident. My Ford Capri, for example, did Ford of Europe in Saarlouis, Germany. He had an appetite for European and Japanese cars the hegemony of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the dominance of the American automobile industry disappeared around the world, overtaken by the entry into the market of high-quality Japanese, Korean and European cars produced in the countries of origin and including North America.

It had a short life. Since 2009, car production in China added more than 32% of the world, exceeding the combined production of the United States, Japan and the European Union. His 4 biggest fmanufacturers FAIC, Donfeng, FAW and Changan They lead the bubble industry which, despite the concentration of its sales on the Chinese domestic market, the largest in the world, has recently opened its expansion to the rest of the world, already occupying the second place in the world as an exporter of cars by 2022.

In a personal capacity, wanting to replace, i.e. complements my 2004 Toyota Prado Diesel As a result of my wife’s constant complaints, we conducted a full analysis of the market, including specifically my preference for electric cars, concluding, after careful investigation, that the technology of the electric car market will be radically improved in about 5 years. , for which we limit our offer to gasoline cars.

After studying the universe available in Panamaas a result of the strategy of introducing low

costs along with arguably dominant technology and performance, we applied to the Chinese offer. Among all the delicious options available, we decided on the Changan Uni-K car that was recently introduced to the Isthmian market.

Now it will be my turn to continue learning for at least a month to familiarize myself with all the virtues of the outstanding mechanics offered by this vehicle that has no reason to envy any other, neither in the engine, nor in the beautiful body, nor in its optimum technology, on the contrary, becoming the referent of the istmeño market.