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Insane to think those are reasonable prices.

10 years ago, a new Renault Clio had a starting price under 14 000 €.

The Dolphin sells for about €6700-€8900 ($7500-$10.000) in China.

They see how the EU allows EU car companies to gouge their citizens and figured "eh, might as well join in on it. Pure profit."

Cars sold in China have 13% VAT. Cars sold in Germany have 19% VAT. Cars sold in the Nordics have ≥25% VAT. Even ignoring shipping, tariffs, local salaries, non-VAT car taxes, etc., there’s no way to price a car the same in China as in EU.

And further down the rung, the electric Twingo, Panda and such go toe for toe with the cheaper Chinese EVs.

You just have to wait 2 years to get an ID.Polo :P

oh I didn't know about the ID.Polo, i was looking into the ID.3 neo life