General Motors protested to the World and pursued a settlement with Chery Motors over like issues.
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It has been in talks with Renault-Nissan, for instance, and with China's Chery Automotive.
Chery officials don't hide their desire to sell cars under their own brand in North America.
That car won't be sold in the U.S., but the test didn't help Chery's reputation.
"Chery realized they were not capable of doing what I wanted to do, " he says.
Indeed, a Chery sedan failed badly in a recent independent crash test in Russia.
Chery might be ready to take on the world in five to ten years.
But China's own brands - like Anhui-based Geely and Zhejiang-based Chery - are gaining ground.
Chery eventually dumped Bricklin in favor of Chrysler, and even Bricklin admits it was a logical decision.
Chrysler's small-car solution, instead, lies with Chery Automobile, a Chinese carmaker with bold ambitions of its own.
That will limit competition, helping BYD and other small, hungry Chinese auto firms like Geely, Shuanghuan and Chery.
Chrysler started doing business with Chery four years ago, when it was building just 90, 000 cars per year.
By the end of August Chery will celebrate making its one millionth car.
In December Chrysler revealed plans to farm out production of a new model to Chery, an independent Chinese carmaker.
In 2007, Chery received a great deal of attention with its international push.
Chrysler already has a tentative deal with China's Chery Automobile to import Chinese-built small cars to North America and Europe.
Separately, it also signed a deal with the Ofer Group, an Israeli company that Bricklin had introduced to Chery executives.
Chrysler says it will work closely with Chery to make sure the cars it sells meet all safety and emissions laws.
Chrysler now has a tentative deal with China's Chery Automobile to build a small car for North America and Western Europe.
By 2006, the employee and Chery began discussing scenarios to cut Bricklin out of the deal and replace him with others.
He has a few smaller deals with Konami, PepsiCo, Chery and KFC.
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Shanghai Autoalso happened to own a 20% stake in SAIC-Chery Automobile Co.
It is possible that Daewoo insiders sold the design specifications for the Matiz to Chery engineers before the sale to GM was final.
Chery rose up in Wuhu, an industrial city of about 700, 000 in China's impoverished and mountainous Anhui province, a five-hour drive from Shanghai.
As in most auto factories, the majority of final assembly is done by manual labor, but even here, Chery's operations seem less efficient.
Chery sprang to prominence recently amid a well-publicized plan by entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin to export 250, 000 Chery-built luxury cars to the United States.
Ofer subsidiaries took the place of Visionary Vehicles in the plan to import Chery vehicles to North America, with Chery retaining distribution rights.
Meanwhile, BYD and Chery lead the locals with roughly 5% each, and Geely is close on their heels with an almost 4% market share.
By 2009 Chrysler and Chery plan to co-develop another small car, perhaps the Dodge Hornet, which would be good enough for the U.S. market.
Jaguar Land Rover agreed to form a joint venture with Chery Automobile that would manufacture and sell the U.K. auto maker's luxury vehicles in China.
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