Comments on: Xiaomi reportedly requiring advance payments from customers to continue vehicle production https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/04/xiaomi-reportedly-requiring-advance-payments-from-customers-to-continue-vehicle-production/ China Auto News Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:55:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: disqus_XqxyhkeaK0 https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/04/xiaomi-reportedly-requiring-advance-payments-from-customers-to-continue-vehicle-production/#comment-639136 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:55:57 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=232984#comment-639136 In reply to dreamP.

Not strange at all. The maintiance is almost 0, the warranty is 5 years on the whole car, and 8 on battery and drive train. Not many companies give 5 years on the car. Using? The only issue shown has been overheating brakes when using the track. Everyone has been giving so much praise.

Not only do people still buy, there's a waiting list a year long because of how amazing the car is.

What's strange is your unfounded opinion.

]]> By: dreamP https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/04/xiaomi-reportedly-requiring-advance-payments-from-customers-to-continue-vehicle-production/#comment-639127 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:03:31 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=232984#comment-639127 Buy, maintenance , warranty , using also problem. But strange people still buy

]]> By: dreamP https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/04/xiaomi-reportedly-requiring-advance-payments-from-customers-to-continue-vehicle-production/#comment-639126 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 05:51:53 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=232984#comment-639126 In reply to Needles Balloon.

Not only Xiaomi. All state-owned enterprises done that or worse like own worker months salary

]]> By: Psychedelic Transcendence https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/04/xiaomi-reportedly-requiring-advance-payments-from-customers-to-continue-vehicle-production/#comment-639122 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:17:47 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=232984#comment-639122 profit maximizing corporations in a communist regime :/

]]> By: GuildensternIsDead https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/04/xiaomi-reportedly-requiring-advance-payments-from-customers-to-continue-vehicle-production/#comment-639106 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:26:03 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=232984#comment-639106 Not a great look. This says to potential buyers that the company may be experiencing cash management problems, as well as the more obvious signals that it doesn't respect its customers and/or lacks confidence in its product.

Xiaomi should reconsider these tactics immediately.

]]> By: Steven https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/04/xiaomi-reportedly-requiring-advance-payments-from-customers-to-continue-vehicle-production/#comment-639102 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:08:33 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=232984#comment-639102 In reply to V3.

Up voting your own comment is considered a lame practice.

]]> By: Needles Balloon https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/04/xiaomi-reportedly-requiring-advance-payments-from-customers-to-continue-vehicle-production/#comment-639099 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:00:36 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=232984#comment-639099 Sounds kind of scummy, but Xiaomi is probably the one company that can get away with it. A less unfair approach would be to send customers who don't want to pay before delivery to the back of the queue instead of canceling their order and taking their (relatively large) deposit. Consumers might be able to reverse this if they make enough noise. After their publicity disaster only a few months ago, I don't know why Xiaomi needs to risk doing this.

]]> By: V3 https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/04/xiaomi-reportedly-requiring-advance-payments-from-customers-to-continue-vehicle-production/#comment-639095 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 06:03:34 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=232984#comment-639095 Xiaomi = dodgy company
The more I hear of their antics, the more they confirm my doubts about them….

]]> By: Steven https://carnewschina.com/2025/08/04/xiaomi-reportedly-requiring-advance-payments-from-customers-to-continue-vehicle-production/#comment-639094 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 05:51:17 +0000 https://carnewschina.com/?p=232984#comment-639094 Too many fantasists ordering vehicles they had no intention of actually buying. The same happened in the USA with the Tesla Cybertruck.

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