>Unwanted vehicles get dumped onto gray-market traders such as Zcar. Some surface on TikTok-style social media sites in fire sales. Others are rebranded as “used” — even though their odometers show no mileage — and shipped overseas. Some wind up abandoned in weedy car graveyards.
This seems suboptimal but better than having no manufacturing base like the service-West (barring Korea, Japan, Korea)
>The brewing crisis has larger implications for China’s economy, in which the auto industry and related services comprise about one-tenth of gross domestic product.
How big is it in Germany for comparison?
>At the Chengdu mall, Wang Lihong navigates a rooftop parking lot on a scooter while clutching a selfie stick, capturing video for social media. Wang is a livestreaming host for Zcar, one of the gray-market traders flipping brand-new vehicles that dealers couldn’t sell.
>Hosts like Wang broadcast on platforms such as Douyin, China’s version of TikTok. Wang recently told his 1.25 million followers that Zcar was Sichuan province’s biggest seller of **zero-mileage used cars**. He said they are usually available in March, June, September and December, “**when dealers rush to meet the quarter or annual sales targets set by the automakers for cash rebates**.”
I think the role of dealership is not really mentionned enough on this sub
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China needs to increase domestic demand
>Unwanted vehicles get dumped onto gray-market traders such as Zcar. Some surface on TikTok-style social media sites in fire sales. Others are rebranded as “used” — even though their odometers show no mileage — and shipped overseas. Some wind up abandoned in weedy car graveyards.
This seems suboptimal but better than having no manufacturing base like the service-West (barring Korea, Japan, Korea)
>The brewing crisis has larger implications for China’s economy, in which the auto industry and related services comprise about one-tenth of gross domestic product.
How big is it in Germany for comparison?
>At the Chengdu mall, Wang Lihong navigates a rooftop parking lot on a scooter while clutching a selfie stick, capturing video for social media. Wang is a livestreaming host for Zcar, one of the gray-market traders flipping brand-new vehicles that dealers couldn’t sell.
>Hosts like Wang broadcast on platforms such as Douyin, China’s version of TikTok. Wang recently told his 1.25 million followers that Zcar was Sichuan province’s biggest seller of **zero-mileage used cars**. He said they are usually available in March, June, September and December, “**when dealers rush to meet the quarter or annual sales targets set by the automakers for cash rebates**.”
I think the role of dealership is not really mentionned enough on this sub