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 row!
The first car that Beijing Benz produced was the Beijing Jeep 2020, a cross between the Russian military jeep, the UAZ and the American Wrangler, it wasnt a bad 4×4 you can still see plenty …

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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 on the Chinese market to begin with, depending on the outcome of Chinese sales will they they export to foreign countries. Shanghai Autos had previously stated that they wanted to start selling cars in Britain …

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BYD Autos, the company that is owned by a mobile phone battery maker and is based in Xi An, central China released its F8 soft top today at the Beijing Car Show. BYD first came about in the late 1990’s when they started to assemble the Suzuki Alto for the Chinese market in cooperation with Suzuki.
It seems that BYD have actually come a long way, although many of their new offerings look a lot like existing car designs, take for example the below F8 – does it remind you of …

I cant deciede if this car is cool or crap. I mean look at the front – it looks muscular, butch and just a tiny bit feminine. Then look at the rear and it looks like one of those foot pumps for inflating air beds, or one of those instruments – a whats it called again? I first saw these photos and thought, what happens if you press down on the hood/boot? Will it make a noise? What if you were driving and the pressure from the wind flowing over …

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This new model from HaFei, named ‘Sai bao’ meaning Race Leopard (hope they dont use that English name though) was released today in Shenzhen China. The car was designed with the helpful input of both French and Italian design companies, so it doesnt look half bad! It comes with a 1.8 litre engine as standard, and has a top speed of 180km with an option of manual gearing or automatic. When the car is fully released in China, it will be expected to cost between 80,000rmb and 10,000rmb depending on …

The above photo, a spyshot of a heavily camouflaged Brilliance Coupe, became reality today at the press opening of the Beiiing 2006 Car Show.

Looking somewhat like a Mercedes coupe, the Zhonghua has a smaller engine than the Mercedes, however, the engine was designed in house by Brilliances’ own engineers. It would be wise to note, that in Zhonghua/Brilliance Shenyang factory there is a team of BMW engineers working alongside their own engineers to help Brilliance/Zhonghua produce some really really beautiful cars.
You can see more photos of the new coupe here, …

The new Chery models were released today, to the left is the new Chery Tigo 5! Its had a great face lift – astute readers may remember that the original Tigo looked a lot like the Toyota RAV4, until now! This one seems to look more like a Great Wall Hover Jeep though. Heres a photo of the RAV4 and heres a picture of the original Tigo for comparison
No word on pricing as of yet, but I’m sure it wont be much more than the original Chery Tigo was. Click …

Found this advert on Youtube.com for Geely’s Beauty Leopard coupe.
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The Beijing 2006 car show starts tomorrow running from the 19th November to the 27th of November , with over 40 car manufacturers this year looks like it will be a great year! This year there are over 20 Chinese exhibitors so hold on to your hats!
China Car Times should be there, albeit later than everyone else, on the 25th or 26th of November hopefully.
If you want to know more about the car show, check out their site Beijing International Car Show 2006. A word of warning though, the car …

Despite having the name ‘Maple Leaf’ Maple leaf cars have nothing to do with that great big country Canada, in fact, it is a subsidy of Chinese car manufacturer Geely. This four door sedan was based Citroen acquired technology (unknown how it was acquired) and looks a bit like an Hyundai Elantra from the side and a Cadillac from the front. Still – Chinese cars are looking better and better, wonder what the quality is like? No word on price as of yet!
UPDATE: I was behind a Cadillac CTS this …

I’ve always wanted a Smart, but was always afraid that my friends would laugh in my face and continuously mock me with vicious attacks regarding my sexuality, boys will be boys after all – I never did buy a Smart car but after coming to China and seeing that some boys were obviously gay but living the straight life I decided that even I could buy a Smart car and be at least somewhat straight looking! Alas, Smart cars are not to be found in China, I did a good …

I dont know where Geely gets it’s cars name from, hell, even just ‘leopard’ would be a great name but they called it ‘Beauty Leopard’ ?!?
Anyway, for 2007, the ‘Beauty Leopard’ gets a new front end and a new rear engine, plus a couple of new engine sizes. Still doesnt have that ‘omph’ look that the other cars in its range/spec field have, i.e. the Hyundai coupe, still for just over $10,000 its not that bad.

Geely have gone officially nuts – doors of a Delorean, the front end of a UFO, but somehow the car looks great! Still only a concept car though, I’m sure the Geely ‘Feng Yin‘ or stealthy wind will never go into production.

The symbol of all things American, the overly big, resource wasting, road hogging SUV come monster truck jeep – the Humvee has an Asian copycat, in terms of the East Wind (Dong Feng in Chinese) EQ2050 and Shenyang Aircraft Industry Co’s SFQ2040 HMWWV (pictured below)
Sinopec has actually bought real Humvees from the USA in the 90’s for use in the civillian sectors. According to Sinodefence.com, the chassis and several parts of the engine come from GM, would the PLA want to rely on foreign companies to supply its potentially main …

Landind, aka, Jiangling Motors has taken an Izuzu Rodeo, or a Vauxhall Frontera body, depending on how you look at it regardless, Jiangling plans to export their Landwind jeep to Europe. However, they have hit a slight snag as they have managed to get an all time low on a European safety test, but Landwind is already on sale in the European mainland but expects to be exporting them to the UK pretty soon with an expected price tag of £10,000 ($20,000). The German testers of the Landwind determined that …

Back in 2004, MG Rover finally went bankrupt. Rovers bankruptcy had been on the cards for years, a far cry from its golden days in the 60’s and 70’s when Rover was a brand that many British people were proud of. Rover was sold to a host of companies in its time. The glory days are long gone, Rover became insolvent and torn apart like corpse between two Chinese vultures. The intellectual property was snapped up at a bargain price by SAIC – (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) SAIC bought the …