What our quality is is eveident from the fact that we export cars to UK, US, Japan and whole Europe. Inspite of very low car production compared to China, We export lot more cars than you people and it is all set to take a huge jump in days to come. Now you can praise your cars as much you can. You always do that so it is immaterial what you say. What is important is how world perceive it. Your maal is perceived as substandard and nobody would like to put their money stuff like car.
When cars are exported to UK, Japan and US, there is no need to say that those cars meet all technological parameters such as emission, safety standard and other attribute. So your argument falls flat when you say that export is not a testimony to quality than it is nothing but the face saving of poor chinese quality.
We too do not count Land rover and Jaguar as our car as the ownership is ours but it is manufactured in UK. It is your chinese who argue that cars exported from India is multinational brand so I gave an counter example.
So far as R & D is concern, India has emerged as R & D and development hub in IT and it is happening in other sectors as well.