Regular China Car Times commenter Warren posted this series of videos about the Geely CEO, Li Shu Fu, and the progress Geely are making in manufacturing cars.
Part One:
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Part Two:
Part Three:
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Part Eight:
Part Nine:
Hope you enjoyed, we did!
In part 5, the couple buy the Honda Fit, the narrator talks about how good the registration plate is as it had an eight, What he didn’t mentioned was the treble four slap bang in the middle. The number 4 sounds like the word for death in Chinese, and the number 8 sounds like the word which goes on the end of a sentence to indicate an order - the registration plate is basically saying ‘die die die!’ Doesn’t seem like a lucky number to China Car Times.
Some words concerning the video’s. (1)
Geely is the fastest growing PRIVATE car manufacturer of China. The owner “Li Schufu” is an remarcable man.
He do not like all kind of joint ventures. His view is that China (Geely) has to developed his own brand of cars, and so he do. The problem is sometimes, that the Chinese car manufactures has not the modern western technology to make the cars at the same quality as the US and European standards. And this is the goal of Li Shufu, Geely is go na build own brands of cars with the latest and best technology.
For example: China has NO production of automatic transmission. To import these is no propblem, but he find that Chinees people has to be proud to build there own automatic transmissions. Geely is the only car company who can make (for now, only a 3-speed automatic transmission) but this is changing very rapidly.
Geely has taken a license from Antonov company to build the Antonov six-speed automatic transmission: The TX6. (a very modern six-speed automatic tramission with the best and latest new developed technology).
First test will be in 2008 in a Geely car and production will follow at the end 2008 or begin 2009 for different Geely car models.
For more information about the TX6 six-speed automatic see the links below:
Website of Antonov about there developed TX6 six-speed technology:
http://www.antonov-transmission.com/aad.htm
Presrealease about Antonov and Geely:
http://www.antonov-transmission.com/search.asp?kw=geely&x=11&y=7
More you can also read at the “myGeely” forum.
http://www.mygeely.cn/php/upload/simple/index.php?t27319.html
Here you can see an MG Rover demonstrater with a AAD six-speed inside. This is now called the TX6 and goes in production with Geely.
http://www.antonov-clubsite.nl/downloads/rovermetaadsixspeed.wmv.wmv
For more movies go to here:
http://www.antonov-clubsite.nl/000000962f000d411/00000097c90900001/index.html
Some words concerning the video’s. (1)
Geely is the fastest growing PRIVATE car manufacturer of China. The owner “Li Schufu” is an remarcable man.
He do not like all kind of joint ventures. His view is that China (Geely) has to developed his own brand of cars, and so he do. The problem is sometimes, that the Chinese car manufactures has not the modern western technology to make the cars at the same quality as the US and European standards. And this is the goal of Li Shufu, Geely is go na build own brands of cars with the latest and best technology.
For example: China has NO production of automatic transmission. To import these is no propblem, but he find that Chinees people has to be proud to build there own automatic transmissions. Geely is the only car company who can make (for now, only a 3-speed automatic transmission) but this is changing very rapidly.
Geely has taken a license from Antonov company to build the Antonov six-speed automatic transmission: The TX6. (a very modern six-speed automatic tramission with the best and latest new developed technology).
First test will be in 2008 in a Geely car and production will follow at the end 2008 or begin 2009 for different Geely car models.
For more information about the TX6 six-speed automatic see the links below:
Website of Antonov about there developed TX6 six-speed technology:
http://www.antonov-transmission.com/aad.htm
Presrealease about Antonov and Geely:
http://www.antonov-transmission.com/search.asp?kw=geely&x=11&y=7
Here you can see an MG Rover demonstrater with a AAD six-speed inside. This is now called the TX6 and goes in production with Geely.
http://www.antonov-clubsite.nl/downloads/rovermetaadsixspeed.wmv.wmv
If the documentary has a Chinese subtile, it will be more acceptable among the Chinese people.