Archive for April 16th, 2007
Nanjings 1980′s Car Lives On in 2007
Nanjing Autos, owner of the ‘Soyat’ brand which just seems to comprise of the one single hatchback car – a trusty early generation Seat Ibiza, China Car Times thinks it might even be a first generation Seat Ibiza. Anyway, we digress from the topic at hand. Soyat have updated their car for 2007/8, hold onto [...]
Geely finally hires a proper designer, remakes the Beauty Leopard
Perhaps the competition from other domestically made coupes like the future Chery Fulwin/Shooting Sport and the now Nanjing owned MGTF have forced Geely into getting a proper design team together to revamp their Beauty Leopard coupe. The original Beauty Leopard was ugly, that car looked like it had been dragged kicking and screaming from the [...]
Chery to build cars in Israel
Wow. Bit of a politically charged area of the world to make cars in, especially if they are making the cars for export: JERUSALEM, Israel — China’s Chery Automobile will team with Israel Corp., an Israeli holding company, to assemble vehicles in that country. A report in the Shanghai Daily said the Israeli company is [...]
More of the Chery Shooting Sport
Released today from Chery: We posted about the Shooting Sport a few weeks ago, it seems the Shooting Sport was received by the Chinese press. However, Chery often shows amazing concept cars but never actually gets around to making them, or they do make the concept cars but it takes a few years – like [...]
Roewe 750 1.8T spy pics
These pictures were being marked as the ’1.8T Roewe 750′ they may well be the car in question, but astute China Car Times readers may notice something about the car that doesn’t ring true, it does have Shanghai car plates though, although they are marked as ‘test’ plates, i.e. its meant for testing and the [...]

