The Emperors New Clothes – SAIC Hybrid Roewe?

We’ve previously blogged about this hybrid vehicle before, but until now we havent heard anything more about it… until today! We’ve got some better looking pictures, and some more information.

sh The Emperors New Clothes SAIC Hybrid Roewe? We believe that SAIC have had this in the planning stage for some time, but until they bought the Rover 75 models from Rover, they probably never had anything decent to put their hybrid technology into until now. The Shanghai branded car, a brand resurrected by SAIC, follows the Roewe 750 design both externally, and internally the only differences being under the hood. We at China Car Times think the Shanghai logo (pictured left) looks a lot better than the Roewe logo, also it sounds better – Shanghai Autos or Roewe? hmmm.

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We at China Car Times think this is one of the nicest hybrids ever shown (we hope they put into production though!) The Chinese press are saying the car will go on the market in 2008 and with a price of around 450,000RMB. What do China Car Times readers think?

Ash

Ash came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along the way and now focuses his time on watching the Chinese car industry develop. He has witnessed the market change from being minor backyard market in to the world's biggest and most important market for all car manufacturers. You can contact or connect with him via Linkedin by clicking the 'Website' link.