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 around 250,000rmb. So it aint cheap, and it comes way after the latest oil shortages.
It can reach a top speed of 160kph, and does a lethargic 0-100kph in 14 seconds, under the hood is a 1.6l engine …

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, but our wages dont!
I hope it goes up to 10rmb a liter, this way we’ll all ride our bikes again and loose weight.
Prices rises are good, this means less cars on the road and we wont always have traffic jams!
Im …

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 global crude prices and China’s domestic oil product prices, NDRC said in the announcement.
As a result, Chinese car consumers will have to additional pay 0.4 yuan ($0.054) per liter on gasoline or 0.46 yuan ($0.062) …

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 pressure on the government to intervene. …

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 wiping habits, which glorious PRC sewage pipes were not designed for. The road in question, Yan Er Dao Road is a fairly long road going through some ‘older’ estates (i.e. mid to late 80s) and …

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 guess it will be in the low 20,000rmb region to compete with the 23,000rmb BYD F1.
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