Dear Haima: Im very sorry!


Now that the show is practically over, and I’m very far away from Shanghai, and more importantly Hainan Island where Haima are based, I feel that is high time I apologised.

The reasoning for my apology is quite simple, I pulled the door handle off your Haima M concept car. I say pulled, it sort of just came away in my hand when I foolishly attempted to open the door.

I couldnt immediatly see any Haima staff around to apologise to, so I put the handle on the roof of the car. Again, apologies all around. It looked like the handle would clip straight back on with a little bit of applied force, but I didnt really feel like doing much more damage to your lovely concept car.

ash 010 web avatar Dear Haima: Im very sorry!

Ash

Ash came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along the way and now focuses his time on watching the Chinese car industry develop. He has witnessed the market change from being minor backyard market in to the world's biggest and most important market for all car manufacturers. You can contact or connect with him via Linkedin by clicking the 'Website' link.

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11 Comments so far, please add your thoughts!

  1. avatar jackson liu says:

    LOL !!!!!

    EPIC!!!!
    hahahahaah

    first sign that the car is just another deathtrap..!!

  2. avatar jackson liu says:

    Ash, congratulations!!

    don’t be sorry

    you did a good service to all other people.
    if the car is falling apart in the autoshow, imagine if it hits the streets…!!

  3. avatar tomson says:

    What a piece of crap..LLOL

  4. avatar tomson says:

    But nice logo

  5. avatar Ocho9 says:

    This care isn’t a production model right? I have pulled the handle off two different Volkswagons in the US and one Chevy Monte Carlo. I swear it was just to open the door normally.

  6. avatar mememe says:

    oh come on folks, there is a difference between a prototype and a production one.

  7. avatar CryptonX says:

    lol
    I agree it’s kinda expected from a prototype/concept

    but the poor thing is Chinese and that’s ironic :P

    I just hope the final product is different, I saw alot of products of Haima ( production ones ) and they gave the same feeling of ” going off ” :D

  8. avatar Scarbir says:

    I once nearly molested a Russian Lada at a showfloor, but you actually DID.

    By the way: the car doesn’t LOOK too bad…

  9. avatar woxihuanpijiu says:

    Ash, why didn’t you keep it as a souvenir???

  10. avatar matthew says:

    oh my god this car looks identicle to the BYD e6!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    http://www.greenrightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/byd_e6.jpg

  11. avatar dragin says:

    Ash, you should have held the door handle hostage. The pay off could have been a big one….. :-)

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