Before on China Car Times we brought you the biggest flops on the Chinese car market, but what about the success stories? Mao Ze Dong once famously said that women hold up half the sky, his meaning was that women are just as important as men in society, what he really meant was that he had seen the future, and he saw women holding up half the traffic in 2007 female drivers are just as evident as the male drivers on the road, including in positions that you wouldn’t often see a Western woman doing, driving jobs such as driving cross country heavy goods vehicles, chauffeurs for CEO’s, taxi drivers and driving public buses, (We’ve never seen a woman pilot though) Today we have a look at whats popular with the broads women in China. From bottom to top, we have a look at what the women in China are buying
To read the list, click continue reading. China Car times apologizes for the blatant sexism in this article, but we make no excuses for it, for it is Saturday.
10. FAW Vizi
The FAW Vizi, for all intents and purposes, is the Toyota Yaris. FAW must have negotiated with Toyota to rebrand the Yaris as one of their own cars (with a few design tweaks here, and there) The Vizi is small, cute, and cheap, all factors which seem important to women. Also it is to be noted that the FAW Vizi is also on the biggest flops in China list, perhaps it was only a small group of women that were buying the Vizi?
9. Audi A4
And you thought this list was going to be full of tiny little micro cars? I guess you were wrong! It seems Chinese women are having a secret love affair with the A4, possibly for its sleek looks and premium pricing, the cheapest Audi A4 can buy two and a half Honda Fits or at least 5 Chery QQ’s. Size must matter, after all.
8. Peugeot 206
The French auto giant seems to hit the spot when it comes to women folk the world over, the 206 has been carrying the fairer sex across cities all over the world since it was unveiled a few years back. The 206 is immensely popular, so popular in fact, that Citroen released the same model but with a few tweaks and called it the Citroen C2 - yes, the Chinese Citroen C2 is very much different from the European C2 as its just a Peugeot 206 with a few more color schemes.
7. Chevrolet Sail
The Chevrolet Sail is just an Opel Corsa. That Opel Corsa must be the GM ‘girl’ its been passed around from marque to marque, its been badged as Opel, Vauxhall, Buick, and now Chevrolet. The thing is, the car has hardly been changed since 2002, they just keep rotating those badges and saying ‘Look, a new car!‘ GM’s partner in China, SAIC, even made a cargo van out of the Opel Corsa front end, they called it the Sabre.
6. Suzuki Swift
The Suzuki Swift is a China Car Times favorite. We wanted one, but the wife said ‘its a girls car, you cant drive a girls car, you’re nearly a man!’ and that was the end of our Suzuki Swift purchasing drive. The Swift is a bit neutered in China, they only offer up the 1.3 models in either manual or automatic, this doesnt stop the funky bubble car being popular with the ladies though, its cheap tag price only seems to encourage sales.
5. VW Polo
The Polo has been the staple motoring diet of women the world over since whenever. In China the tiny motor is popular than ever, China Car Times even notes that its popular with both skirts women and men. Although maybe once the Polo Fox crossover SUV thing is released, males might start buying that instead.
4. Chevrolet Spark
Despite being cloned in every available way by Chery for their QQ car, the Chevrolet Spark still sells well in China. This maybe because there are many QQ’s about, and other buy the Spark to have the same amount of ‘cool’ about them, whilst yet being ‘different’ (Look, Im not a QQ driver, I drive a C-h-e-v-r-o-l-e-t”
3. Nissan Tiida
Despite its funny English name (the Chinese one sounds better) the Tiida has proven to be popular with both sexes. The Tiida works out marginally cheaper than Ford Focus but seeing as the Tiida is the new fashionable kid on the block, and the Focus is, well, pretty old, its obvious why women are flocking to the Tiida.
2. Honda Fit/Jazz
Far from being a Grandma car like it is the UK, young Chinese women (and the odd man, i.e. Jason) have snapped up the Honda Fit like they were free cup cakes. The Honda Fit is c0mpetively priced, comes with decent packages and the ever important automatic gear box at a sub 100k RMB price, its a bargain to be honest and its no wonder that they sell so well in the Middle Kingdom.
1. The Chery QQ
What else could be Chinese womens ultimate favorite car ever other than a homegrown domestic car that costs peanuts to buy and pennies to run? Its small, its mega cheap, its funky, its everything a chic urban chick needs to get from A to B to C to D to E to F to G, and back to A again to buy the first thing she saw in the best possible way. China Car Times has several friends who have QQ’s, both male and female, and they regard it as the Chinese ‘Peoples Car‘ - a car that anyone can afford regardless of social standing. The QQ (now demoted to mere QQ3 after its ugly bigger sister, the QQ6 appeared) is still selling well despite the QQ6 showing up on the block. The QQ will definitely go down in history as a memorial to Chinas industrial development.
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