Archive for March, 2010
Facelift Chang’an Zhi Xiang spotted out testing
In the past three years Chang’an motors have put some phenomenal effort into building their own car brand which largely started with the original Ben Ben minicar, but quickly spread to other cars such as the below soon to be launched Zhi Xiang. The previous Zhi Xiang, although a good looking car, seemed to slightly [...]
Chang’an to launch CX30 soft hybrid
The CX30 is not Chang’as’s first hybrid, previously they had worked on the Jiexun hybrid which garnered some international headlines for them, but it is not clear how they sold. The Jie Xun went onto service the Olympic Games in 2008 as part of the Green Fleet of cars that were on demand to service [...]
Aptera heading to the PRC with electric sedan
Now the electric car market seems to be really hotting up with contenders both internally and externally putting China ahead as one of the more important markets for the electric car: SHANGHAI — U.S. electric vehicle maker Aptera Motors is now in China looking for production partners, in order to significantly reduce costs and speed [...]
Dongfeng’s first crossover spotted out testing
Dongfeng started with its own small car range several years ago and seems to have hit a sweet spot with certain models, especially with the Fengshen, or the S40 as it more commonly known in English. The S40 came in sedan form and hatch form but with the hatch version being known as the H30, [...]
Geely Emgrand SUV renderings
It appears that CCT has actually turned into ‘Geely Times’ over the past few days with an explosion of Geely related topics, the latest Geely news story is regarding their newest SUV. Of course Geely has yet to produce an SUV, but we have seen other SUV models and renderings from them before now. The [...]
Toyota to compensate Chinese drivers
This is actually a first for the Chinese car industry, and may well be a precedent to further compensation by other car companies that recall their products in China From Reuters: SHANGHAI, March 30 (Reuters) – Japanese auto maker Toyota (7203.T) will recall some RAV4 vehicles in China and compensate their buyers after complaints from [...]
The Volvo deal unwrapped
Geely may have bought Volvo for a bargain 1.8 billion USD, a fraction of the price that Ford originally paid for it several years ago, but exactly have they bought? Well, CCT can reveal that Geely have come into quite a bit for the money that they have spent, they’ve gained a fantastic well respected [...]
BYD L3 to launch in April
BYD has plans for yet another sedan, this time it is the L3 and follows the recently launched G3 into production. The L3 is expected to be a higher quality car, and its sole competitors are the JV manufacturers, so that would the Mazda3, the Ford Focus, and the Honda Civic as well as an [...]
Are BYD shopping for Maybach?
With Geely’s take over of Volvo, it seems that BYD are eager to follow in their footsteps by hinting at a possible takeover of Maybach from Mercedes. Mercedes previously stated that they were planning to slow down and eventually end Maybach production, however a turn of events have seen Daimler working with BYD to produce [...]
Ford’s Volvo sale to Geely is officially wrapped up.
Ford and Geely have finally come to an agreement that will see the Sweedish brand, Volvo, sold to China’s Geely. Geely’s Chinese name, which in a literal sense means ‘Good luck’ has obviously helped the plucky Chinese automaker over the past decade, this good luck has culminated in the sale of one of the world [...]
Geely Chairman Li Shufu flying to Sweden to wrap up Volvo sale
It seems the big man of the Chinese automobile world is likely in the air right now on his way to officially buy the Volvo unit from a beleagured Ford International that is just bouncing back from last years devastating economy. The Volvo purchase is likely to give Volvo a massive leap in terms of [...]
Ford CEO Alan Mulally drops off keys to new Shanghai Focus owner
Harriet Luo, the recent buyer of a brand new Ford Focus was in for the shock of her life when she found out that Alan Mulally, Ford’s global president, Joe Hinrich, head of Ford Asia, and Robert Graziano, head of Ford China, were all on site to hand the keys over to her. Harriet was [...]
Okay, thats it, no more crossovers! – Chevrolet Spark Crossover
The Chevrolet Spark got off to a roaring success in China when it was first launched, that is until Chery cloned it and called it the QQ and then it was all downhill. The QQ sold like free cocaine, whilst the Spark sort of lingered on in the background, now it appears that Wuling-GM are [...]
Chery produces 2,000,000th vehicle
Chery’s massive growth from a small, techinically illegal backwater car maker to one of China’s fastest growing car makers is amazing, their rate of growth in terms of sales over the past 15 years has shown their determination to ‘make it big’ on a global scale. Today Chery produced car no 2,000,000, a Chery Reely [...]
Fun is now officially over – China to disqualify any drunk drivers from driving
From April 1st 2010, China is planning to have another major crack down on all drink drivers and behind the wheel offenders. After a series of horrendous traffic accidents involving drunk drivers in 2009 and 2008 the Chinese government ordered the police to have a major crack down on drunk drivers who know will now [...]
Guizhou driver upset at being stopped, beats up journalist.
ZonaEuropa: In the city of Guiyang, there is a public service campaign titled “Three Innovations, One Implementation” going on. Guizhou TV’s Channel Five program <Rule of Law Frontline> covered this campaign to go after illegal behavior by car drivers, motorcycle drivers and pedestrians. On the morning of March 23, 2010, the program team filmed an [...]
Mini SUV spotted out testing in China
The Mini SUV has been spotted out testing in China, sparking rumors of an imminent launch in China. It is unusual for such a car to be spotted out testing in China, perhaps it is undergoing homolglomation prior to launching here in China, or perhaps it is testing local road conditions prior to seeing production [...]
2010 Nissan Livina revealed
The Nissan Livina has been a major seller for Dongfeng-Nissan over the past three years, they have since launched a crossover version which has proven to be a good seller, but now they have also added a face lift version which will no doubt spur sales on into 2010/11. The 2010/11 Livina has some niceties [...]
GM ENV launched today
GM’s ENV concept car was launched earlier today, and has given the world a taste of what we just might be driving in cities just a few years from now. The bubble shaped electric car is known as an Electric Networked Vehicle which will have zero emissions and will rely on an electric motor for [...]
Yesterdays downtime
In the middle of yesterday afternoon a behind the scenes script on CCT went haywire and took the down the server for several hours until one of our support team were able to reboot the server. Please accept our apologies! AshAsh came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years [...]
Twitter!
