Even Chinese prefer foreign brands to domestic ones (if they can afford it) even though almost all of those are made in china under 51-49 JVs. I’ve personally never been impressed by a chinese car that wasn’t an outright clone, well maybe those new BYD electric taxis running Beijing.

A friend of mine worked a contract with JAC once to help them...design the info-tainment system for their upbrand Audi A5 compete, which involved copying Audi’s system as much as possible then parring it back because they weren’t willing to use high end hardware in it.