Archive for November, 2006
All aboard! Brilliance set to debut in Germany.
According to Shanghai Daily and the China Daily, Zhonghua Autos, English name Brilliance, plans to export 3000 cars to Germany in 2007, and then reaching up to 180,000 cars within 5 years! Ambitious plans for a company thats controlled by a mobile phone battery maker! Zhong Hua/Brilliance are based in Shenyang, Liaoning in North East [...]
Skinhua posts top 8 models from the Car Show
Xinhua, the Chinese state broadcaster , often called Skinhua due to the large enormous amount of pretty girls on its website, has posted the 8 prettiest models from Beijing Car Show AshAsh came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along [...]
How the Roe We – Rong Wei – Rover Hybrid Works
When China Car Times was at the Beijing Car Show, I was able to snag some information on how the actual entire engine works. Being the talented individual that I am, I’ve translated the diagram from Chinese into English, but its not perfect English mind. Its pretty big image at 150k, but its worth every [...]
ZhongXing Autos shows off its new truck and jeep
We havnt posted anything about ZhongXing as of yet, thats not to say theres nothing good to say about them though. China Car Times finally caught up with ZhongXing at Beijing Car Show where we saw a few of their new models. The Grand Tiger The Grand Tiger (Wei Hu) looks a bit like a [...]
New Beijing Jeeps
At the Beijing Car Show, the new Beijing Jeeps were unveiled, the Brave Warrior which is meant for military use plus a newer updated version of the original 2020, except this one is called the ‘Gladiator’ (角斗士 – jiao dou zhan) The Brave Warrior: China Car Times commented on the Brave Warrior before, but once [...]
Dong Feng Coupe – Just what is that back part for?
China Car Time has been confused, confused ever since we first laid eyes on the above new Dong Feng Coupe. It looks okay I guess, nothing super special from the front, but once you start to move towards the rear of the car you see: Just what is the need for that plastic bellows? China [...]
Chicks of Beijing Car Show 2006
A car show wouldnt be a car show without girls draping over them, China Car Time has brought you a small selection of what was one offer at Beijing Car Show, if we took too many pictures of pretty girls then my prettier half would no doubt cease performing her matriarchal duties i.e. cooking and [...]
Roe We – Rong Wei – Rover 2.5 V6
Since SAIC bought Rover they’ve been busy squirreling away in their Research and Development departments, presumably busy making these utterly stunning, beautiful new cars. China Car Times was awed by the beauty and quality of these cars at the Beijing Car Show, although China Car Times will do well to keep in mind that these [...]
Roe We Advertising
I think the Rover – Roe We car is really going to take off as a mid range luxury car in China, and its certainly looking like Roe We is going to push its cars as such. Now in China Volkswagon Passats and Audi A6′s are the staple car for any budding Chinese wanting to [...]
Apologies for the haitus
China Car Times has been in Beijing at the Beijing 2006 Car Show – Normal service will resume. In the mean time, China Car Times finds itself sitting in the lobby of the Japanese embassy in Beijing. Can you believe they close at 11am and open again at 2pm ? What kind of crazy consular [...]
The Austin Maestro in China
I was talking about this with my friends back in the UK, and they never seemed to believe me that the Austin Maestro and the Austin van were still being produced in China after almost 15 years of not being produced in the UK. I once saw an entire factory full of them in Qingdao， [...]
The FAW is over for Red Flag
Excuse the terrible pun. The Red Flag, or Hong Qi as it’s known in China, car company a part of First Automotive Works (FAW) has finally produced a new car. The original Hong Qi was based on an old Audi 100 design. You see FAW and Audi have had a relationship going back to 1986. [...]
Rong Wei/Roe We Rover 750 – Its a Hybrid!
China Car Times was very shocked today to discover from various sources that the Shanghai Automobiles has produced a new Rong Wei/Roe We/Rover 750 (take your pick of name) and its a hybrid car! The press release from Shanghai Autos (SAIC) says: This hybrid Roe We 750 is fully independently developed by Shanghai Automotive Group, [...]
Geely Goes Bananas – Releases King Kong
This Geely King Kong could well be leading the Chinese automobile invasion of America sometime in 2007! Geely released the King Kong a while back, even I was a bit stunned by its named ‘Jin Gang’ the rough phonetic translation for the giant gorilla that terrorized Manhattan on the big screen. ‘Jin’ means gold, and [...]
Bricklin pops Chery’s Cherry
Malcom Bricklin, the entrepreneur who brought the Yugo to America and then much more successfully brought the Subaru to the US, was planning to export Chery automobiles to the USA on the basis of them being top quality at a low price, rather than bargain basement quality at a low price. The exported Chery’s were [...]
Pimped out Chery QQ – Modify your Cherry QQ!
Here at China Car Times I’ve found myself rather bored of late, other than writing articles for China Car Times I dont seem to do much else （Oh,thats right, I manage a company as well). I’ve been thinking about buying an old Chinese Car for quite some time and restoring it or beefing it up [...]
The Chery A5 – China’s First Hybrid Car
It seems Chery is jumping into the hybrid arena to take on the hybrid heavy weight giants, Honda and Toyota, at their own game! Chery’s latest offering, the Chery A5 ISG (pictured below) is a gasoline/electric machine. The gasoline part of the engine is a tiny 1.3litre engine, the other half being electric battery powered, [...]
We’re all going to Peru
LIMA, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) — Chinese auto brands Great Wall, Hafei, Geely and Faw debuted in the Peruvian car market, importing company Zona Motors announced on Wednesday. “Our plan is not to hide the cars’ origins, but instead to show them off as a sign of (Chinese) innovation (which is) constantly advancing its technology with [...]
New Beijing ‘Warrior’ Jeep
Beijing Jeep has finally redesigned their original model ‘Beijing Jeep 2020′, its only been 23 years or so since Daimler Chrysler first hooked up with Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp to create the Beijing-Benz DaimlerChrysler Automotive Co Ltd (what is it with these car companies and their names?) Try saying that 30 times in a [...]
Rong Wei/Roe We not yet ready for export!
Note: China Car Times wanted to post this article this very morning, but found itself at the mercy of China Telecom. At the weekend one of Shanghai Automotive executives, Phil Murtaugh, commented that Chinese manufacturer has postponed plans to export the Rovers to the US and European markets as they first plan to focus solely [...]
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