Volkswagen Golf starts at 32 706 € here. BYD Dolphin Surf, the cheapest car BYD offers, starts at 24 590 €.

You know the old joke - I don't have to outrun the bear, need to outrun you. China's companies goal is to keep their cars 10% cheaper than the locals.

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Hamuko an hour ago | parent [-]

BYD still has some work left to do then since the Volkswagen ID.Polo is 26 390 €. The ID.Polo is also considerably prettier than the Dolphin Surf, so it probably needs a bigger price cut to get customers.

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w4der 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

And further down the rung, the electric Twingo, Panda and such go toe for toe with the cheaper Chinese EVs.

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fransje26 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Insane to think those are reasonable prices.

10 years ago, a new Renault Clio had a starting price under 14 000 €.

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jorvi 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

The Dolphin sells for about €6700-€8900 ($7500-$10.000) in China.

They see how the EU allows EU car companies to gouge their citizens and figured "eh, might as well join in on it. Pure profit."

	▲	Hamuko 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Cars sold in China have 13% VAT. Cars sold in Germany have 19% VAT. Cars sold in the Nordics have ≥25% VAT. Even ignoring shipping, tariffs, local salaries, non-VAT car taxes, etc., there’s no way to price a car the same in China as in EU.