Apologies

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For the past two weeks CCT has been devoid of any large updates, largely due to the fact that I (and others) have been extremely busy elsewhere. I have personally been writing articles for CCT for over two and a half years, sometimes upto ten per day, but probably averaging about 3 per day since CCT’s conception.

I thought it was about time I released some data regarding CCT:

• 2,120 articles posted on CCT
• 12,799 comments on CCT articles
• 64 news categories
• Often receiving 1 to 2 million page views per month, reaching 3 million during the Shanghai or Beijing Auto Shows.
• 219,448 spam comments, which were caught by Askimet.

30,450 Spam comments in August 2008 alone.

• The first post was about the launch of Roewe
• The first comment is not printable (!)

I often get asked, ‘Why did you start China Car Times’ and the answer is very simple: I was searching for car info as I really wanted to buy a new car in China at the time, but there was nothing in English. So my search lead me into Chinese websites, which had obviously had a plethora of resources, many of which I use now to translate for this website. Since the day I registered the domain name, and set up the site I hardly had any expectations it would eventually turn into a full time job which allowed me to work from home for over a year. Eventually I grew bored of the lack of social life at home being largely by myself, and joined a small bio-technology upstart which has kept me busy, and entertained.

So, please keep reading, I do plan and updating more often now, and will prod the other contributors into putting fingers to keyboards ASAP.