Archive for November 1st, 2007
Dongfeng launch EQ7200HEV – a model no to remember!
Dongfeng officially launched their EQ7200HEV model today, forget the long name, lets just call it a new hybrid motor from Dongfeng that uses the last generation Nissan Bluebird innings, a new skin, and not forgetting the hybrid bits. The car is expected to go into full production in the next three years and cost [...]
Chinese reactions to oil price hikes
China Car Times has taken these comments from various Chinese language articles about the oil increase for your pleasure: From today, Im going to drive an electric car! I ride a motorbike, and it hurts my pocket! China is caving in Is this the legendary ‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics?’ Socialism is great – prices rise, [...]
More news on the gasoline price hike
Liberated from Gasgoo: Shanghai. November 1 (Gasgoo.com) – Oil product prices in China will raised by 8 percent or 500 yuan ($68) per ton starting today, China’s economic regulatory body, National Development and Reform Commission announced on its official web site this morning. The price hike is made to reduce the widening gap between soaring [...]
Fuel costs up at the pump – nationwide fuel shortage?
China Car Times predicts that some heads will be rolling at Sinopec in the very near future over this ‘silent protest’ BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China‘s worst fuel crisis in two years spread to the capital and other inland areas by Wednesday, and one man was killed in a brawl at a petrol station queue, upping [...]
You cant beat road closures
One of the busiest roads leading in and out of Qingdao city center has been closed for repairs all this week, we’ve heard the government are laying in new sewage pipes that can cope with foreigners coming to China for the 2008 Olympics and carrying on their throwing the toilet paper down the pan after [...]
Chery to launch new QQ2! – Poverty motoring for the masses?
Last time we showed you some of the latest Chery mini car models, we wernt too sure what they were ourselves, but now we have full drawings of what the QQ2 will look like, and when it will be launched. This car is obviously as barebones a car you can possibly go, and we can [...]
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