I've got a Daihatsu move custom with a 660 turbo and cruising around 110 kph (69 mph) is easy. on the highway I'm usually doing 120 while averaging 45 mpg.

heres mine btw

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yes I know what I'm talking about! I guess you don't realize that were not talking about construction in particular, were talking about Chinese quality in general! My comment was directed at Aznauto in response to his comment about American quality being far inferior to Chinese quality.
So what you did was butt into my reply to him without knowing what we were talking about, so save your yourself sometime and drop it.

Not sure exactly what your trying to say but the definition of a superpower is subjective.

In my personal opinion, if we look at the world through globalization and the complex interdependencies that have developed between the world’s nations, including the US and China. The concept of a global hegemony becomes somewhat inconceivable and an outdated idea, I would actually argue that there is no current global “superpower”.

The concept of “You make I use” is not really relevant when looking at global powers. All nations produce and consume China and the US included. But frankly, consumption on a historical American level is not a global right and not something developing nations should be striving for, it’s wasteful and our world can simply not support a billion consumers on that level. The truth on its current course, China is going to have to keep a good portion of its population in relative poverty in order to secure its own future; it simply does not have the resources to support its whole population on an American level of consumption.

Ummm see this is the problem, I never said I did! Nor did I claim it was a design problem that caused the building to fall over. I in fact I said it was “Construction Techniques and cutting corners” which is factual!

Additionally I asked Aznauto if he had ever seen an “American built high rise fall over” You didn’t answer that question with your references so I can’t see how you are calling my “BS”, the only thing you’ve proven thus far is you inability to post a proper rebuttal.

@ClarksonIsGod2

Seriously? So over a 70 year span you can find one bridge collapse which had nothing to do with the quality of the construction and 2 if not for the loss of life relatively minor design failures and compare it to something like this http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/18775/ which happened 2 weeks ago?
Maybe you’re a structural engineer and that’s fine but my job is to represent Japanese manufactures when working with Chinese suppliers and verify they are providing the requested product at the agreed price point. Quality and corner cutting is a HUGE issue. You would be shocked by some of the things we see on a daily basis.

It fell over due to bad construction techniques and cutting corners. Trying to compare it a brand new high-rise to a 43 year old over used bridge is not a fair comparison.

The fact is, when we look at Chinese designed, Chinese manufactured products the list of quality issues is too long to even begin to count. Even my Chinese collogues won’t buy Chinese products, especially food.
That said, China is a good place for manufacturing goods provided the work is closely watched and products designed by a foreign firm.

@Aznauto

When was the last time you saw an American build brand new high rise apartment building fall over???

yeah, thats what I thought!

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"Do you also know that about 90% of Japanese girls are hot?"

You've never actually lived in Japan have you?