From Reuters, via The Washington Post:
After decades of riding global car makers’ coat-tails and churning out clunky cars few wanted, upstart Chinese firms are flexing their muscles, designing sedans that threaten to engulf world markets.
Now, the likes of General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. are getting increasingly nervous about the country’s vaunted export might, afraid that automotive history — a la Japan and South Korea — might repeat itself.