Archive for April, 2011
Subaru’s XV concept being readied for Shanghai Auto Show
Subaru’s original Impreza XV failed to stir on buyers in the Chinese market with just a handful being driven off parking lots, but the new concept looks to be a major overhaul of the current bland XV. Subaru has realized that the Chinese market is crossover crazy and well styled crossovers seem to be selling [...]
Geely takes the MINI, makes it look better
Geely are prepping a new mini car for their upmarket Emgrand range, the car is a new one on us and we had no idea that Geely had small car ambitions for the Emgrand range, however this car does look quite neat even if it does have various MINI attributes to it. Look out for [...]
Beijing manufactured GLK sighted out testing packing 1.8T
Mercedes are the big loser of the German three in China, Audi are traditionally the weakest brand but their early arrival in China secured them the biggest slice of the pie. Mercedes sold 147,670 cars in China 2010, whilst BMW sold 158,489, Audi out trumped them with sales of 220,000 vehicles. Mercedes realizes that China [...]
Next generation Lifan 520 rendering
Lifan seem to readying a Lifan 520 concept for the Shanghai Auto Show, the below renderings indicate that Lifan are finally starting to get serious about car making. So far the Chongqing based car maker has only been pushing out half hearted designs but the below rendering seems to show that a tide has changed [...]
Luxgen’s pure electric EV concept shown in rendered form
Luxgen are gearing up for their first entry into the mainland Chinese market in partnership with Dongfeng Auto, the Taiwanese brand is a sub brand of Taiwan’s Yulong Motors and is the first cross straights full car producing joint venture of its kind. At the Shanghai Auto Show Luxgen are expected to show their first [...]
China car sales up 5.4% in March
China’s auto sales reached 1.8285 million units in March, up 44.32% from a month earlier and 5.36% from a year earlier, the year-on-year growth down 50.43 percentage points from a year earlier, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. The sales of passenger vehicles in the month totaled 1.3476 million units, up 39.32% from [...]
Peugeot 508 sedan revealed ahead of Shanghai Auto Show
Getting your message out about your new model at an Auto Show is fairly difficult, the problem is that there are likely to be dozens of other brands throwing out their messages at the same time, the next best thing is to reveal your car ahead of time and hopefully gain a few headlines. This [...]
Everus S1 revealed
The Everus brand was first shown off in Guangzhou Auto Show in December 2010, of course the brand was the most interesting part of the whole event as the first Everus car was clearly just a warmed over last generation Honda City sedan (otherwise known as a Honda Jazz/Fit Saloon) with new badges. The exterior [...]
Chinese car production to be hit by Japanese earthquake shortage
From Reuters: Electronics and auto makers in China are facing a severe shortage of components after Japan’s twin disasters disrupted production, but the full impact will not be felt for weeks, analysts say.The earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeastern coast on March 11 shattered infrastructure, caused power outages and forced temporary factory shutdowns — [...]
This is the next generation Roewe 750
The Roewe 750 was the first car to be born from the ashes of MG-Rover after SAIC took over the blueprints and IPR for the Rover 75 whilst Nanjing Auto Corporation took over the MG-Rover factory in Longbridge, Nanjing Auto later launched the MG7 but it was all too late, the Roewe 750 had won [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-10
Stop the press – I have seen a Suzuki Kizashi on the road in China. Rarer than a Ferrari. I need to own one for the exclusivity now. # AshAsh 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 [...]
Audi Q3 Confirmed for Shanghai Auto Show
Earlier this week the Western automotive press went crazy for the new Audi Q3 SUV, being a Chinese car focused blog this kind of slipped off radar, our bad. The market for luxury crossovers has boomed in China, Audi were the first to introduce the Q5 as a locally produced vehicle into China with their [...]
Ford’s Shanghai Auto Show: EV’s, SUV’s, MPV’s
Ford are signed up in China with state owned power house Chang’an Auto, Ford maybe one of the American Big Three but in China they are considered mid league in terms of sales, 2010 sales amounted to just over 580,000 vehicles where as GM sales were at 2.35 million and even Hyundai sold 700,000 cars [...]
Changfeng’s CP2 sedan to get first airing at Shanghai Auto Show
Does anybody remember Changfeng? They were a rustic manufacturer and practically dead partner to Mitsubishi, they turned out the 1991 Mitsubishi Pajero for the People’s Liberation Army and had a half-hearted attempt at making its own SUV line up off the back of the short wheel base Pajero. Guangzhou Auto recognized a bargain on wheels [...]
Haima’s new mini car
Haima’s last new mini car, The Little Prince, was a terrible looking thing that sold in miserable numbers and was actually billed as a ‘QQ Fighter’, but in actual fact it was a major flop. Haima have gone back to the drawing board and have come up with the below concept that we will see [...]
Beijing to become a paradise for electric vehicle sales
I often wondered why Chinese auto makers would push forth with their electric and hybrid concepts at auto shows, its not as if there is a huge market for them in China, from China Car Times own articles you can easily see that sales are rather weak, this article states that only 54 hybrid and [...]
Bus World Asia in Review: Chinese buses plugged in
There are more than 60 bus builders in China, but only 7 attended Bus World Asia Show in Shanghai. The top 4 leaders in the Chinese bus market, Yutong, Higer, Kinglong, Golden Dragon, were all absent, which made the so called Asia show into a exchange platform for a few Chinese smaller builders. From March [...]
Besturn B30 seen out testing
The Besturn B30 will be Besturn’s economy model in the boosted Besturn line up, one problem though: The car has been delayed to 2012. The B30 was originally slated to hit the market in 2011 and will be riding on the top of the VW Jetta platform, yes – that mark 2 VW Jetta platform, [...]
Great Wall’s IF concept car for Shanghai Auto Show
Great Wall Motors (GWM) are a great company, they have wide line up of cars from big SUV’s to little sedans and they are certainly on CCT’s list of Chinese car companies that are going to make it internationally. GWM’s big concept for the forth coming Shanghai Auto Show is the below Great Wall IF [...]
The long awaited BYD E6 Review
This review was written by Mark Andrews, a well accomplished automotive journalist based in Shanghai China. You can read many of his other reviews on his personal website. For many, electric vehicles evoke memories of milk floats, mobility scooters, or even the ill-fated Sinclair C5. This is changing thanks to companies such as Tesla. Nonetheless, [...]
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