Pardon me...but the way you put it is not very nice. (and no
flaming intended...just food for thought. :D)
Firstly SMRT's Yutong demo is (apparently) not rumored and
it's being shipped to Singapore. Secondly, it's not like as if
buying China buses means china bad and China
communist is your[censored]. Thirdly, if applying your
thinking, SMRT shouldn't have bought UDs and Hinos from that
country that invaded us about half a century ago. Not mixing up at
all.
In fact, be it Chinese, Japanese, English, American company
they'll defintely want to do trade with Singapore de. like Yutong
offering a demo WAB to SMRT for evaluation (and hopefully a bulk
purchase after evaluation). Maybe Yutong will also erase the
misconception that China products are cheap knockoffs too.
I just read the thread about that bus, and I realised that that
one is indeed a demonstrator.
No offense intended, but having heard so much nasty news about
their products, and that their quality control is often so
inferior, I don't exactly trust anything China-branded.
I do use products made in China (the very Logitech
keyboard that I'm typing this post on is made in China), but only
if it's a non-China branded product - I trust that the overseas
companies that have manufacturing operations in China oversee their
production lines more stringently than the Chinese companies
themselves. Even then, there had been problems - who could forget
those lead-tainted toy trains and those melamine-added milk
products from China? Much of those aren't even China-branded
products! Also, I often find China-branded products to be rather
inferior in quality to non-China-branded products, even if both of
them were made in China!
Plus, I detest Chinese products because I often find they lack
originality. In China, everything has been ripped off -
clothes, shoes, cars, computers, MP3 players, mobile shows,
anime merchandise, and practically everything in between had been
shamelessly ripped off, and let's not mention that shameless and
disgusting Zonda ripoff bus that was discussed a long time ago
here. Even their original products has elements that seem lifted
from other similar products, which are often subsequently
desecrated horribly in a shameless effort to make it look
"original". Worse still, there's even now a culture in China in
which they take pride in such ripped-off designs and products! As
an aspiring designer and artist, and having experienced first-hand
the effort needed to develop an original design, I am disgusted by
the alarming and utter disrespect they have for the hard work and
sweat of the original designers whose designs have been copied by
them, and no self-respecting designer could ever support such
products.
I hope this clears up any misconceptions anyone had about my
opinions.
