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Hello – is this the new Chevrolet Sail hatchback?
The Chevrolet Sail sedan was sighted on CCT a few days ago, however it appears that Chevrolet have plans for a hatchback version as well: Quite how the Sail hatch/sedan will fit into the Chevrolet range is against the Aveo sedan/hatch is still a mystery, furthermore is it based on the Opel Corsa D, or [...]
Chery Riich G5 nails the Nürburgring!
Chery took their soon to be launched Riich G5 premium sedan to the Nürburgring in Germany for some serious testing of its credentials, and obtained itself a great score considering the previous contenders. The G5 is the first mid size sedan from Chery, and will carry a 2.0L naturally aspirated engine, and also a 2.0T [...]
Hummer becomes Chinese owned
The sale of Hummer to China’s Tengzhong was widely reported in both Chinese and foreign media reports late last night and early this morning. The American automotive icon, equally famous and infamous for its go anywhere attitude and amazingly low gas mileage is now under the control of Sichuan based Tengzhong Heavy Industries. A final [...]
Korean Media: “World Car Industry Depends on China”
A recent article in South Korea’s Joong Ang Daily remarked that the worlds car industry now depends upon the Chinese market until other markets improve. Partial translation: By September 30th 2009, China had sold over six million cars, an increase of 17.7% over the first nine months of 2008, America has only sold 4.8 million [...]
Cars being launched in China soon
Although its a busy time for China with the Oct 1st National Day and then the Mooncake festival right around the corner, Chinese and international car markers here in China are not relaxing or planning on taking the holidays off. Several new cars are expected to launch in the coming weeks although some are just [...]
What could have been – the MG SUV
MG-Roewe’s parent company, SAIC, are very eager to build their own SUV based on Sssangyong IPR but a launch date of the Ssangyong-Roewe has never been announced despite it being spotted dozens of times out testing. It could be that the rights to Ssangyong IPR is in a murky place right now straight after Ssangyongs [...]
Playing the English name game
As I walked past a kindergarten last week, I heard the hefty tub thumping beat of a techno track blasting from a Beijing kindergarten’s PA system. Inquisitively I wanted to know why a kindergarten was having an impromptu rave in their play area, and more importantly why I wasn’t invited to such a happening event. [...]
No big changes for new Jetta
The new Jetta is not going to die, in fact, it’s getting a round of rhinoplasty to give its front and rear a lift for 2010. Despite the current Chinese Jetta being a 1984 mark 2 VW Jetta, the Chinese have an odd love affair with the basic motor, probably due to its inability to [...]
Kerri Toloczko talks bollocks about Chery
Kerri Tolockzo wrote this article for the Dowagiac Daily (if you dont where this is, we will forgive you). If you don’t know who Kerri is, then we will forgive you for that also. Mr. (Ms?) Toloczko’s article is essentially a piss poor dig at the Chinese, the Chinese car industry and inparticular Chery Auto. [...]
MG6 Sedan rendered pleasure
Rendered images of an MG6 sedan were leaked onto the internet late yesterday, showing what appears to be an MG6 merged with a BMW 3-Series tail. The MG6 is likely to take the SAIC built 1.5 Turbo engine, and regular aspirated model under its hood. Pictures of an MG6 sedan were shown before, both these [...]
Geely V’s Chery – Why Geely is king, and Chery have lost the plot
For many years it was Geely that was the national laughing stock of the Chinese automotive world, they made cheap cars, they had a corny name (in English and Chinese) and at the time were getting completely blown away by their biggest rivals over in Anhui Province. Their rivals of course being the state owned [...]
Is the Chinese EV/Hybrid Industry Overhyped?
In a recent article on CCT, the Chinese hybrid/EV industry was labelled as being ‘overhyped’ by a company that clearly cannot see the forest for the trees. The Chinese central government, like the North Korean government, has it’s own sort of informal ‘Juche Policy’ where the country must be self sustainable to a certain extent [...]
When will the Clone Wars end?
In 2008, many industry observers thought we had seen the end of the ‘clone years’ where Chinese manufacturers would simply take an existing vehicle, give it the Xerox treatment, drop a Mitsubishi engine in, and slap their own badging on it and call it their own vehicle. The first, and probably most famous of the [...]
Chinese made GM’s to head to the USA
According to todays media reports, GM is planning to export Chinese made vehicles to the USA to sell in the North American market. The main cars to get exported to the USA are small cars, for example, the Chevrolet Spark. By 2011, GM expects to start importing the Chevrolet Spark, with 17,335 cars being imported [...]
Private Second Car Sales Up!
In the first quarter of 2009, 680,570 second hand vehicles were traded in China, an increase of 24.73% over the same period in 2008. The first period of 2009 saw the trading of 345,400 cars were sold, an increase of 21.72%, large MPV’s and busses accounted for 122,500 vehicles, an increase of 18.08%, trucks accounted [...]
Are Hafei feeling the strain? Probably not.
Hafei Automobiles were absent from this years Shanghai Auto Show, which has lead many people to wonder if Hafei are in a healthy economic position. As already mentioned on CCT, the Shanghai Auto Show attracted 600,000 visitors, in which a small automaker like Lifan pulled in business of over 170 million USD during the show, [...]
Why the automobiles future is in China
Newsweek hits the nail on its 头 American tastes dominated the world’s automotive market for a century, but all that’s changing now. Today it’s the increasingly well-to-do Chinese car-buyer that industry wants to woo and win, thanks to this incredible fact—China has, over the last three months running, surpassed the U.S. in terms of volume [...]
BYD M6 MPV Interior
BYD have had their MPV under development for several months now, only a single pre-production computer deveoped model has been sent out by BYD, but now we have been graced by another teaser shot of the dashboard: The BYD M6 is thought to look a lot like the Toyota Previa, BYD have an unhealthy habit [...]
New China Only Passat Spotted out
Although the official pictures have already been released by VW, it’s always nice to see photos of a real vehicle: The new Passat Lingyu seems to have taken on a more elegent stance, something that might have been borrowed from its cousin the Audi A8. Engine offerings are expected to be a 1.8Turbo, a 2.0l, [...]
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