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Comment by i67vw3 | Hacker News Reader

One thing from a consumer perspective (brand perspective) is chinese cars have very bad company names eg., BYD, Zeekr, Xpheng, Geely if compared to other brands from other countries like Toyota, Hyundai, Audi, Ford, TATA etc.

Personally, I would not roam around with 'Xpheng' name etched on my car.

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It’s only bad if you aren’t used to it. When Japanese brands tried to break into automotive world, they sounded weird too. Xiomi and Hiawei don’t sound too different to Samsung and Nokia these days.

You kind of proved GP's point by misspelling both names. They are Xiaomi and Huawei. The fact that you misspelled them isn't surprising, as both have "foreign" spellings compared with the Japanese brands like Toyota, Honda, Nissan. X is rarely used in English, and they have paired and less common vowel pairs. Both are also not pronounced phonetically, which is also true of the the Japanese brands but the approximation is arguably closer for them. Certainly for some of the brands sounding like Amazon 3rd-party re-resellers is a big mark against them.

Lol you overanalyzed it. I fat-fingered in mobile. U is next to i and unlike Nissan or Toyota, my swipe keyboard does not recognize Huawei yet.

At least here in Australia it’s a popular option to de-badge your BYD removing the ‘Build Your Dreams’ from the back hatch.

They’ll just come to the states under a different name.

'007' seems like a great name though.

XPeng is actually similar to Mercedes-Benz, or Ford, the brand is just the founder's name :)

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