What do you think of cheap, no-name brands? How good are brands like Dacia, Lexus, Brilliance, Tata Motors, and Deawoo? Do they meet EU safety standards? I'm 24 and want to buy my first car and am looking for cheap alternatives.
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Here you list some quite different shops:
Dacia is a Renault subsidiary, so today’s Dacia are built with components from previous Renault models – so easily under modern Western European standards.
Lexus is the luxury brand of Toyota – where you want to find a cheap alternative, you need to explain first.
Daewoo was a Korean group that Pleite went – the brand was taken over by GM and dissolved – the former Daewoo models sold in D were sold as Chevrolet from a certain point in time – the brand was now withdrawn from D.
Tatas are not yet sold in D; Brilliance has embarrassed Europe for the first time with miserable crash tests, but seems to come closer to European standards with every model generation.
I would rather with some attention buy an older, but well-maintained European used…
Chevrolet is still in Germany…. at least you can buy the corvette…
The Corvette is also not a Daewoo/Korea-Chevrolet.
GM takes Daewoo/Korea-Chevrolet from the entire European market by 2016. Opel and Vauxhall remain a GM brand in Europe. The fact that they always offer a few US models over Opel dealers has been so since the 1950s. Before the war they even had a factory in Berlin where they had US models built for the German market.
For example, I can’t say anything bad about Dacia. You get a fully reliable car that can’t be much more than driving, but for that it is inexpensive and qualitative at a very high level.
Lexus isn’t a cheap no-name!? The cars are not worse than Opel or Seat too!!
Cheap no name?
Lexus has been the “nobel brand” of Toyota and Toyota for many years when it comes to the least of the breakdowns and the least noticeable defect.
Lexus has only one problem in Europe and especially in Germany: no one buys a 120.000€ high-class limo when it comes from Japan. No one buys a 375,000€ sports car when it comes from Japan and how bad is the demand for 90,000-100.000€ off-road car with 5.7L V8 engines in Europe, US Chevrolet has already found with cars that cost only half but were hardly bought.
Even in the lower middle class, Lexus with its 2.4L basic motorization is simply not what European customers want to believe. In the upper middle class again the question is: Which European buys a 3.0-3.5L Lexus V6 instead of a local 6 cylinder if they cost almost the same as a new car?
In the USA, Lexus sells about 300,000-350.000 cars per year. In Europe, it is only 25,000-45,000 pieces and a large part of it is the smallest model “CT” (from 29.000€ as a new car).
After all, most Europeans have heard “Lexus”, so far it has not brought “Infinity” (“Nobelmarke” by Nissan).
Infiniti writes with i at the end.
Someone knows! DH
Cheap No Name? Lexus is in Japan what Mercedes Benz is in Germany! Tata Motors is the largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in the world. Daewoo was the largest licensee of CHevrolet.
Dacia can still be mentioned as the most unreliable car brand in the GDR with 5 warranty cases per car.
Dacia today is not too much, cheap, sweet processing with rough old Renault engines, Lexus is the Asian alternative to Mercedes and plays in the premium segment, Brilliance is the merciless failed CHinese attempt to cut a cheap limousine on the market, Tata is not represented in Germany, Daewoo, on the other hand, has brought out the Nexbaust Absolute quality product and absolutely recommended!
since when is lexus a cheap no name!?
Lexus is not necessarily a cheap brand.
Otherwise, the vehicles are behind the current standard. 10-12 years ago or so they would have been on average. So you’re better off with a 10-year-old VW or Ford or something like that than with a new Dacia.
I would rather worry about the technology than the safety of the cheap cars.
I am driving Skoda (Italian reimport) and can only recommend the brand with regard to the price-performance ratio. If you are interested
Lexus and cheap?
I laughed,
below €25,000 you will not get far from Lexus, for that you may have a test drive, Lexus is the Asian version of Audi only that the Lexus, unlike Audi, has no cheap models for normal earners in the range, the cheapest Lexus starts at €27,600 (Lexus CT) and then the NX and IS models will arrive at €35,000-40,000 and then the RX and RX€ models will come to €53,000.
I think that the possession of a new Lexus for most normal mortals is as inaccessible as a 6 in the lottery
Dacia is 100% Renault, Lexus is the luxury brand of Toyota, Daewoo is good, Tata also… only the Chinading seems bad….
I think a lot about “no name cheap brands” like Lexus. The price/performance ratio is true.
so I don’t think that one of the brands mentioned goes through as “No Name”
especially Dacia, Lexus and Daewoo everyone knows.
Dacias far millions in DE rum, fled 20030234324 Dacia Duster….
or does not come to the German market without appropriate certification, so they also correspond to the EU standard …
but where we’re safe, you know the Smart, Smart belongs to Daimler AG, so Mercedes and Smarts are cutting off very badly in crash tests… significantly worse than some as you call them “No Name” Karre
The smart, bad in the crash test? If you take the pedestrian protection, yes. The vehicle itself, however, is a high-strength steel construction that has proved in several independent tests that it itself surpasses the standard of some sports cars!
The problem with the smart is only: He’s only good in the crash test for as long as he can benefit from the Knautschzone of the accident opponent.
There is the famous test “Smart against S-Class”, in which the Smart cuts well because the S-Class is deformed.
You do not want to drive against a tree or a wall with the smart because then the impact forces are transferred unbraked to your body.
I would not call Lexus a No-Name-Billig brand.
I think you’ll be a little surprised at the prices of Lexus…
Since when is Lexus a cheap brand????? Does DAS DA look cheap????
http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Lexus-nissan-268847_500_375.jpg
Yeah, honestly, it looks cheap, but it won’t be cheap.
That’s right again, cheap doesn’t mean cheap.
the main thing is to get from A to B no matter how the car means