# US airforce approves chinese truck supplier for international use **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 5, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748 "2009-01-05T05:30:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/1 "2009-01-05T05:30:32Z")
cross posting this from another forum. US Airforce guys in Japan and other parts of the world find that the US Airforce approved some chinese company with an office in Cali to supply a few thousand K-trucks for use on bases around the world. > [@society mike](#): > > **Mag International Inc. Announces United States Air Force Award** > Fountain Valley, California, February 19, 2008 – Mag International, Inc. announced today that they are > the successful bidder on the largest order to date for mini utility vehicles (LSV – Low Speed Vehicles) to > the United States Air Force. The contract award for approximately 7 million dollars will focus on the > delivery of the MAG utility vehicles to over 60 Air Force and Air National Guard bases worldwide. > Eric Baron, CEO of Mag noted, “We are pleased to have been rated number one by the Air Force during > evaluations last year and the award validates our commitment to provide the best quality product at the > best possible price. The military is focused on reducing fossil fuel consumption and reducing emissions, > and our vehicles which get 45+ MPG will help them meet that goal.” [http://www.maginternationalinc.com/](http://www.maginternationalinc.com/) Good call guys… economy goes in the shitter, so lets throw more of our people out of work and send manufacturing jobs to China of all places. How does this shit happen? and: _Frequently Asked Questions_ **Where is MAG International Inc located?** Offices are located in Hong Kong, China and Fountain Valley, California > [@smike](#): > > yes, the company has an office in the US, Cali, but all they do is import and distribute, they are manufactured in China. I used to do contracting for a building I ran and yes, awarding Government contracts to foreign companies, especially CHINA is a big no-no. > Of course when overseas, if there is no US equivalent service/company available to do the work you need done, then it’s ok to contract to local foreign business, but still not China!!! > > I just went over the truck and wow… it’s a giant cheap piece of shit. It’s parked next to a real “K” truck made by Suzuki, and comparing every part you can see the obvious cheapness in it. > For example, looking at a plastic box that houses some sort of wireharness and relay, first off, the plastic around the box has “overflow” plastic from the mold they used, like it squeezed out of the mold and they didn’t bother to cut the excess off. Then, looking at the wires, they used freakin CRIMP connectors like you buy at Radio shack for hobby projects!! > The mud flaps are some sort of fake rubber, made of plastic, paper thin, made to look like rubber. The metal “bumper” is actually attached via a trailer hitch connector and it’s crooked. The rear glass is not even safety glass, it’s “tempered” and doesn’t have a DOT approved decal on it. > w-t-f ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/2 "2009-01-05T06:46:30Z")
What the shit is this crap. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/3 "2009-01-05T06:53:03Z")
they should go with the cheapest company that provides what they need. without competition we just end up with American companies ripping off the tax payer. I don’t like being ripped off. how well the product performs remains to be proven. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/4 "2009-01-05T06:55:45Z")
This a year old, but still, this is why we can’t have nice things. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/5 "2009-01-05T09:23:47Z")
![http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/fail-owned-screw-china-fail.jpg](http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/fail-owned-screw-china-fail.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/6 "2009-01-05T10:04:18Z")
Maybe we are doomed… ---
**Author:** ![joelster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joelster/32/7258_2.png) [@joelster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/joelster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/7 "2009-01-05T16:02:22Z")
> [@bing"](#): > > Good call guys… economy goes in the shitter, so lets throw more of our people out of work and send manufacturing jobs to China of all places. > > How does this shit happen? Pretty hypocritical of you since you exclusively buy import cars don’t ya think? ---
**Author:** ![badcompany](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@badcompany](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/badcompany)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/8 "2009-01-05T16:07:49Z")
funny story. I am sitting in an Air Force owned Ford F-350 right now. This trunk has 6504 miles on it and the turbo is already shot and the radio is dead. As soon as an American car company produces something that isn’t shit then we can be upset. ---
**Author:** ![burnt\_toast](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/burnt_toast/32/7518_2.png) [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/9 "2009-01-05T16:10:18Z")
little do we know… all the trucks that china sells to our military are actually hibernating robots, each armed with a small nuclear device. When the time comes, they will transform into the destructive automated devices meant to carry out their true purpose… DUN dun dunnnnn ---
**Author:** ![Adictd2b00st](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/adictd2b00st/32/7625_2.png) [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/10 "2009-01-05T16:11:50Z")
> [@joelster](#): > > Pretty hypocritical of you since you exclusively buy import cars don’t ya think? yes because import car companies don’t manufacture any cars here or employ any americans in their factories… not really the same ---
**Author:** ![deebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deebo/32/5218_2.png) [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/11 "2009-01-05T16:21:20Z")
> [@joelster](#): > > Pretty hypocritical of you since you exclusively buy import cars don’t ya think? > [@Adictd2b00st](#): > > yes because import car companies don’t manufacture any cars here or employ any americans in their factories… not really the same stupid fbod owners! :picard: ---
**Author:** ![joelster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joelster/32/7258_2.png) [@joelster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/joelster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/12 "2009-01-05T16:21:24Z")
> [@Adictd2b00st](#): > > yes because import car companies don’t manufacture any cars here or employ any americans in their factories… not really the same Nissan? Here’s part of the OP "chinese company with an office in Cali "…so technically they are employing American workers right? What’s the difference then? ---
**Author:** ![Adictd2b00st](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/adictd2b00st/32/7625_2.png) [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/13 "2009-01-05T16:27:59Z")
> [@joelster](#): > > Nissan? > > Here’s part of the OP "chinese company with an office in Cali "…so technically they are employing American workers right? What’s the difference then? well if you’d read the first post , it says “yes, the company has an office in the US, Cali, but all they do is import and distribute, they are manufactured in China.” thats nowhere near the amount of employees that a car company will provide jobs for annnnnnnnd since you mentioned nissan, here ya go Nissan North America - U.S. Manufacturing Nissan has three production plants in the United States - in Smyrna and Decherd, Tennessee, and Canton, Mississippi. Production at Nissan’s Smyrna Plant began in June 1983. The vehicle assembly plant has an annual production capacity of 550,000 vehicles and represents a capital investment of $2.5 billion. The plant produces the Nissan Altima, Nissan Maxima, Nissan Xterra, Nissan Frontier and Nissan Pathfinder. The vehicle assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi, began producing vehicles in May 2003. The $1.4 billion plant now produces the Nissan Altima, Nissan Quest, Nissan Armada, Nissan Titan and Infiniti QX56. The plant has an annual production capacity of 400,000 vehicles. Nissan’s powertrain assembly plant in Decherd, Tennessee, began production in May 1997. Today the plant manufactures all the engines for the complete lineup of Nissan and Infiniti vehicles produced in the U.S. The plant also forges crankshafts, and cylinder block casting operations will begin in the spring of 2008. Nissan North America - Smyrna 983 Nissan Drive Smyrna, TN 37167 Phone: (615) 459-1400 Nissan North America - Canton 300 Nissan Drive Canton, MS 39046 Phone: (601) 855-6010 Nissan North America - Decherd 520 Warren Chapel Road Decherd, TN 37324 Phone: (931) 962-5000 ---
**Author:** ![joelster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joelster/32/7258_2.png) [@joelster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/joelster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/14 "2009-01-05T16:44:18Z")
AH, so what percenatge of employess here, on US soil, suddenly somehow makes it acceptable? ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/15 "2009-01-05T16:51:44Z")
Well for one, IIRC bing’s not American he’s Canadian. So there goes your hypocrite theory. Two, bing isn’t spending a ton of money with his right hand to save American business while giving money to chinese businesses over American businesses with his left hand. Not the same at all. ---
**Author:** ![deebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deebo/32/5218_2.png) [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/16 "2009-01-05T16:56:03Z")
plus the two cars he owns are 97 and older and hes not the original owner ---
**Author:** ![Adictd2b00st](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/adictd2b00st/32/7625_2.png) [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-airforce-approves-chinese-truck-supplier-for-international-use/60748/17 "2009-01-05T17:19:47Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > Not the same at all. basically, my original answer… but you wanted more “proof” of factories so i gave it to you. i’m done with your retarded argument joelster lol