HandOfChukwu: So you would prefer to drive Volkswagen which is a car company that was started by the Nazis during WW2? Or would you prefer to drive a Ford which was made a by a racist white man that funded the Nazis during WW2? Or maybe you want a Japanese car that is made by people that think being dark skinned is a disease and a sign of evil? MUMU

AlfaSeltzer: Do you know that toyota and kia design their own cars?
Do you know that toyota and kia parts are not produced in china?
Do you know that toyota and kia don't just stamp their badges on someone else's cars?

Don't compare ingenuity and mediocrity.

jasper7:
If you don't celebrate the small steps, how do you ever want to leap? Or fly?
What is wrong with people? You'd rather we had no "made in Nigeria" cars at all, Than the little IVM is doing?
Don't despise the days of little beginning. Even Usain Bolt staggered when he took his first steps.
If his parents didn't celebrate him then. Do you think the world will be celebrating him today?

AlfaSeltzer:

There is no need to celebrate a lie.
If we must advance, we must tell ourselves the truth.

kingphemy: It definite can! But if only we don't tribalize it.

How will I, a Yoruba man foremost before a Nigerian, feel when am driving such cars and our brothers tell me "they" make the car am driving? Am gonna dump it no matter how good it is.

DStarrx: Instagram was also created yesterday (in 2010) and today it's the rave of the moment with more than 150 million active users. Being "invented" yesterday is not a reason to lay back and watch others dominate the market.

FotherMucker: Such doltish question. You seriously think a semi literate assembler of prefabricated chinese cars totally devoid of innovation running in some backwater can take on a multinational conglomerate that holds many patents and actually design and build their own cars and systems, a company worth billions of dollars with some of the world's best automotive engineers?

Egad!

Zoharariel: As for me & my household, we will not risk our lives using our hard earn money to buy what will kill us. My BMW X5 is doing just fine but I do have 3 questions to ask.

Question 1: Y did Innoson choose to partner with the Chinese[of all people] instead of the Germans, Russians or even the enemies of progress[Americans] in the manufacturing of its auto line?

Question 2: Since the Igbos are known mainly for trading in substandard goods & products, Is it not also possible that these Innoson Vehicles are also built from sub-standard materials just to maximize profits?

Question 3: Has Innoson Vehicles been made to undergo series of tests by any Government Automotive Regulatory Body e.g [Consumer Products Safety Commission] to ascertain its durability, performance & safety measures, If yes, can we verify the documents here on Nairaland?


Note: Pls don't bash me oooo, na only question I ask. Don't even quote me if you don't have reasonable answers to my questions.

Zoharariel: As for me & my household, we will not risk our lives using our hard earn money to buy what will kill us. My BMW X5 is doing just fine but I do have 3 questions to ask.

Question 1: Y did Innoson choose to partner with the Chinese[of all people] instead of the Germans, Russians or even the enemies of progress[Americans] in the manufacturing of its auto line?

Question 2: Since the Igbos are known mainly for trading in substandard goods & products, Is it not also possible that these Innoson Vehicles are also built from sub-standard materials just to maximize profits?

Question 3: Has Innoson Vehicles been made to undergo series of tests by any Government Automotive Regulatory Body e.g [Consumer Products Safety Commission] to ascertain its durability, performance & safety measures, If yes, can we verify the documents here on Nairaland?


Note: Pls don't bash me oooo, na only question I ask. Don't even quote me if you don't have reasonable answers to my questions.

chibecanglobal: Do you read at all?

AlfaSeltzer: Do you know that toyota and kia design their own cars?
Do you know that toyota and kia parts are not produced in china?
Do you know that toyota and kia don't just stamp their badges on someone else's cars?

Don't compare ingenuity and mediocrity.

kendrick93: i dnt know abt competing with kia..etc cos those companiez are world renowned but in here in nigeria,if patronized, then it definitely should do well..
but tribalism is still d biggest problem it faces.. a yoruba or hausa man wont lyk to patronize innoson due to lyk i said tribalism and also in sum cases envy

ba7man: @alfa szeltzer just busted the whole Innoson propaganda.

Why didn't they rebadge a VW product like Skoda or Seat did?? I would buy that kind of Innoson.

mickyarams:

You know you are a silly doughnut, typical black man with a crab mentality. How many cars has your father produced??
Do you know that some models of Skoda and Volkswagen run on Audi engine, the new Mini run on BMW engine, cars like Dacia run on Renault engine, opel, Vauxhall and Chevrolet all run on GM motors engine.

2n2k: I actually thought that Alfascletzer photoshopped the pictures but I just google the company now - GAC Zhejiang Gonow Auto Co. and behold, G5 is 100% that Chinese company's product even the same name.

But why should innoson claim what he is not? Being called a vehicle assembler is enough achievement. Why claim he designed and manufacture vehicles that are imported in semi-knocked down (skd) stage not even completely knocked down (ckd) parts.

GAC Gonow Auto Company of China and Xiamen Golden Dragon Bus Co. Ltd of China have both signed Completely Knocked Down (CKD) agreement with Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company( IVM) Limited to increase capacity for the production of Buses; SUVs models and set up a training center in Nigeria - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/nigeria-auto-policy-attracting-attention-auto-makers-nac-dg/#sthash.njey0pGA.dpuf

Curiouscity: Nigerians with their cynicism and pessimism!! Even if Innoson is assembling exact cars as found in China, he is employing Nigerians and not just importing like most other millionaires are doing. We are shouting gov't should provide jobs for everyone when we don't want to support anything Nigerian. Not even moral support!! 60% of components of the gadgets we buy from the western world is made in China, India, Indonesia etc, yet we rejoice because we buy 'made in USA' goods. Almost 85% of the textiles in USA, UK, Canada is made for them in China, but sometimes carry the US, UK, Canadian company label. Their citizens know it, yet patronize them 100% because they put money back in their country. We don't buy anything made in Nigeria except a foreign company based in Nigeria and having foreign staff.

How will we grow? Where will the jobs come from? Must everything be tribalized or politicized?

redsun: It will be the duties all sane Nigerians to see that it excels over foreign companies. It is not just it monetary values,but ventures like that marks the true beginning of Blackman's emancipation, his coming of age to the machine and vehicular age. An age that he can create and make ways where there are no ways.