Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The car not even commies will buy


Tim Blair:

Behold, China’s earth-saving petrol-electric hybrid BYD F3DM compact sedan:

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They’ve sold just 100 of them since last December. By comparison, the Chinese bought four times as many Lincoln Navigators in 2005 alone—and then there are all the other Chryslers, Cadillacs and Fords. Looks like Tom Friedman’s beloved one party autocracy, which can “just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century”, hasn’t gotten around yet to bossing the citizenry into slow-rollin’ plug buggies.


(Via Instapundit)

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