Archive for April, 2010
Geely Emgrand Concept Vehicles for Beijing 2010 – Part Two
Part One can be seen here Geely’s Emgrand brand came into being in early 2009 and was positioned to be Geely’s premium brand in a sea of mediocre cars, however Geely have seen some good sales in the past few months with their recent Emgrand sedans, especially in Eastern provinces such as Shandong where there [...]
Geely’s MEGA PLANS for the Beijing Car Show
With the Beijing Auto Show right upon us, we can always rely on Geely Auto to blow us away with a massive array of cars, this year is no different to last year with Geely planning to show an impressive 59 cars, ranging from the super small to the impressively big. Geely needs around two [...]
Greatwall Hover H5 ready to wow Beijing, and Europe.
Greatwall have split their popular Hover model off into a brand of its own, which they are planning to exploit to the maximum. The below Hover is one of the models that GWM are planning to push into the European market, and also into the premium self developed SUV market for the Chinese market. The [...]
BYD to open second plant in Xi’an, to produce 400,000 cars per year
BYD’s growth from miniscule car maker to becoming one of the biggest names in Chinese automotive in a relatively short time, they’ve put together an impressive team of sales staff within their Shenzhen based headquarters who are eager to oversee BYD’s expansion into becoming one of the worlds largest automakers. BYD are planning to up [...]
Autocar Magazine test drives MG6, find it is excellent
MG of yesteryear is certainly dead, the old cobwebs and ear hair have been thrown aside because MG appears to a 21st century sporting brand rather than a 20th century one. Autocar Magazine road tested the new MG6 around some coiling wet Welsh roads and found that the MG6 is actually a sodding decent car: [...]
BYD E6 to launch as taxi very soon
BYD’s flagship car, the BYD E6 pure electric MPV, is set to be released as a taxi in Shenzhen city under a testing program before rolling out nationally, and then internationally. A taxi version of the E6 will be unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show later this month in taxi livery. The E6 is good [...]
BYD releases official S6 SUV pictures
Prior to the Beijing Auto Show, BYD have released official pictures of their first SUV, the S6. Spy pictures of the SUV were posted to CCT earlier this week which quickly became a hot topic. The S6 was reportedly in development for three years and will come packed with technology, such as keyless entry, anti [...]
Buick 2.0T Lacrosse to launch soon
The Buick Lacrosse is Buick’s latest fantastic sedan, it has the size and styling of a high end Lexus but has the price tag that we can all afford, even us mere CCT staff writers. The Chinese offerings are a 2.4l 4 cylinder model that is highly rated and also a flagship 3.0L V6, the [...]
Buick Exelle GT Sedan spotted out testing!
The Buick Excelle hatch has only just been on the market for a few months in naturally aspirated and turbo form, of which the turbo form is a 1.6T producing 184BHP (named the Excelle XT) which is quite the little rocket, however Buick at some point decided that this was not enough and laid out [...]
Facelift Chery Tiggo3 SUV to launch later this year
A facelift version of the Chery Tiggo3 SUV will launch later this year with a plethora of new engines, including a 1.6T, a 1.8 naturally aspirated model, and a 2.0T model. The Tiggo SUV has already been on the market for several years where it has performed well against the ever growing onslaught of cheap [...]
Wow – The Chevrolet Sail has never looked so good (spy shots inside!)
The Chevrolet Sail has never been a great looking car, that is until the 2010 model was posted to the internet earlier today: Previous incarnations of the Sail have been in Buick guise and were basically notch back sedans of the European Opel Corsa, although it did come in wagon form but never hatch form, [...]
Facelift Roewe 750 out testing and Roewe Hybrid also in the works
The Roewe 750 came out in November 2006 at roughly the same time as CCT, at the time both looked great, but the Roewe 750 has lost some of its youthful cheer in the three years that it has been on the market and thus a facelift is in order. The above spy shots indicate [...]
Electric Roewe 350 spotted out testing, and running Android!
An electric version of the Roewe 350 has been spotted out testing and has become quite the hot spot in the Chinese automotive press. SAIC are keen to kick start their electric car program, but initial indications showed that they were lagging behind in some aspects but the Roewe 350 appears to have helped them [...]
GWM C30 Sedan to launch in Beijing
Great Wall Motors heavily anticipated sedan is set to launch at this months Beijing Auto Show and will continue with GWM’s march into the A-segment of the Chinese auto world where they have already performed exceptionally well against a multitude of different competitors. The C30 has already been given a Chinese name of 腾翼 (Teng [...]
Chery’s Shooting Sport concept spotted out road testing
A few years ago Chery wowed the world with its Shooting Brake concept car which was on show at the 2007 Shanghai Auto Show, this concept then disappeared from the public eye until yesterday when spy shots of a Chery model out road testing were posted onto the internet. The car is codenamed A01 within [...]
Geely’s first SUV, the Emgrand EX7, spotted out! Is it another RAV4?
Geely have missed out the SUV sector which was a major growth area for their major rivals, Chery. Geely are now playing catch up in the SUV game, where as Chery are already leading on with 3 SUVs in the marketplace. Geely have to come up with something unique and different to play catch up [...]
No laughing – This is the Chery Riich M5 sedan
Chery have produced some fantastic vehicles over the past few years, their Chery Tiggo SUV was unstoppable in the SUV market for a few years, the original Chery QQ is still a force to be reckoned with nearly a decade after it was originally launched, the Chery A3 sedan and hatch are prime example of [...]
Chevrolet Cruze to get 1.6 turbo engine this year
The Chevrolet Cruze has been a good seller for Shanghai-GM with it appearing to be one of the more popular cars on the road since its launch late last year, now the Cruze is aiming to be the recipitent of a 1.6Turbo engine that is currently installed in the Buick Excelle 1.6T hatchback. The 1.6T [...]
MG2 spotted out testing yet again, interior shot too
It looks the MG3 is finally going to be killed off with the immintent launch of the MG2, which will likely be the Roewe 150 as well. The MG2 as it is known, for lack of an official name, has been spotted out testing on a number of different occasions, except this time an interior [...]
5 Series goes big for China
The hunger for lengthened sedans in China shows no early signs of abating, and BMW have just thrown their hat into the ring with the BMW 5 Series Li, L of course standing for Lengthened. The Li version of the popular 5 series is stretched by a massive 14 centimeteres, giving rear passengers more leg [...]
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