Archive for the ‘Beijing Auto Show’ category
BAIC’s C60F concept sedan, aka the old Saab, to hit production in May 2012
When BAIC took command of the Saab 9-3 platforms in early 2010 it was expected that they would put the cars into production straight away – not so – the plans have been delayed slightly whilst Beijing works on the brand building. According to one CCT insider the Beijing brand has to be ‘just right’ [...]
Beijing Auto officially announces new brand and new logo
The forthcoming Beijing Auto brand was announced earlier today and will be officially known as BAIC Motors. Beijing Auto Works is aiming to once again become a major player in the Chinese automotive industry, and has already made major breakthroughs in the industry thanks to its partnerships with Mercedes and Hyundai that have seen it [...]
Beijing Auto’s C30 MPV spotted out again
Beijing Auto have been left out in the cold when it comes to self developed brands, and they are eager to catch up with the market leaders at SAIC who invested early and produced the Roewe and later MG series of cars. Beijing Auto are aggresively developing their own range of cars, some of which [...]
Saab returning to China, but under BAIC’s stewardship
As well as buying old Saab platforms, Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation (BAIC) has gained the rights to distribute Saab vehicles in China. It is still unclear how exactly BAIC plans to distribute Saab vehicles in China, if they plan to set up a new Saab dealership network totally devoted to Saab, or use its existing [...]
Beijing Auto Show is over – the show in review
From the first public day on April 25th until the last day on May 2nd, over 800000 visitors swept past the six halls of the Beijing Auto Show making it the biggest in terms of actual visitors in the world over the period of the show. The peak day on May 1st saw 145,000 visitors [...]
Ford F150 Raptor turns up in China via the gray market!
The Chinese gray car market is a large and beautiful one, you often see some very random cars cruising the streets of China and do wonder how on earth they arrived in the Middle Kingdom. Last week I found myself staring at a mark 4 VW Golf Wagon in Beijing obviously an import from somewhere, [...]
Geely’s high hopes not yet dampned by a hard reality
This years Beijing Auto Show showed that Geely do have the flair and the will to produce a mass range of cars from electric buggies, to mid size pick up trucks, but they don’t have the market yet in China to put all of their models into production. The Associated Press has a very good [...]
Greatwall’s Beijing Auto Show
Greatwall was one of the stronger visitors to this years Beijing Auto Show with them displaying off a multitude of new vehicles, and more importantly their first sedans and new SUV’s. GWM may have started as a SUV maker, but they are quickly branching out into other market areas, such as sedans, which are potentially [...]
Geely iG – small, hybrid, and has gullwing doors – seriously, what more could you want?
Gullwing doors are quite frankly awesome, they should certainly be on more production cars, of which the Geely IG. If you though the IG was simply a concept car you are wrong. A quick chat with Geely’s PR director at the Beijing Auto Show revealed that the vast majority of Geely cars on show at [...]
What is happening at Lifan Auto?
Lifan Auto are located in what is being called The Chinese Detroit due to its massive car producing industry, which is mostly due to Chang’an but Lifan are doing very well with their car and especially motorbike production. Over the past few years it seems that Lifan have almost stalled with their car plans, and [...]
Beijing Auto Show in review
This piece was written by Ash Sutcliffe of CCT for Just-Auto.com: This year’s Beijing Auto Show was most notable for its lack of notability – at least in the sense that Chinese auto shows used to be jaw-droppingly notable. The weirdly wonderful or eye-catching obvious doppelganger has been replaced by something quite a bit more [...]
Roewe E1 Concept Car – is the Rover Spiritual back from the dead?
The Rover Spiritual was set to be the car that would take over from the ancient Rover Metro and take Rover back into the heart of mass producing small cars, which was essentially its bread and butter. The Spiritual concept broke free at the Geneva Auto Show way back in the spring of 1997, Rover [...]
Feel the sting: CH Auto Aculeus Concept
CH Auto is a design house based in Beijing, and has shown us the Scorpio concept in the 2008 Beijing Auto Show. They are back this year with an updated version of the Scorpio, named after the sting in a scorpion – “Aculeus”. Design-wise it’s easy to “see” hints of Ferrari, Maserati, BMW, Aston Martin [...]
Hunan University designs odd car, students claim no self medication went on during design process
At this years Beijing Auto Show, Hunan University were eager to show off a series of self developed car designs from their technology center. Clearly there are some serious bright students at Hunan Uni, as they decided that the traditional two at the front, two at the rear wheel configuration was not upto scratch, thus [...]
Geely at the Beijing Show
Geely had a mass array of cars on show at the Beijing Auto Show, only there was one problem: Not many of them are actual production cars. Usually at a car show, a manufacturer will deliver around five to six production models, and then possibly one or two concept cars, perhaps with one being a [...]
MG Zero – Small, compact, and set to be awesome!
The MG Zero concept might be a small car, but it is one that is likely to hit a high note when it eventually gets launched as either the Roewe 150, or more than likely the MG2. The MG2 is a strike into a market which is currently ‘hot’ the world over, small high quality [...]
Beijing Auto Show: The New Cars
The Beijing Auto Show will officially being tomorrow, April 23rd. Dozens of automakers and hundreds of cars will be waiting for their chance to shine. Here is a brief list of new (some are not so new) cars that will be shown in Bejing. Click on the links for more info: AnalystWebsite – More Posts
Guangzhou to produce self-branded cars this year
Guangzhou Auto Group (GAIG), which has joint ventures with Honda and Toyota, is poised to become a major player in the Chinese auto industry. GAIG announced a merger with Gonow this week, having already taken Changfeng a year ago. Part of the strategy to accomplish this goal involves the launch of a self developed brand, [...]
Huatai’s B21 and B11 sedans for Beijing
Huatai (or Hawtai) will attempt to get into the highly competitive luxury car market in China. Apparently they will do so sticking with the Bentley look-alike grille, as seen in their entire lineup. We’ve seen their SUV already. Huatai is also going to show in Beijing their new sedans, the B21 and the B11, which [...]
Want a limo? Civilian edition of Chairman Hu’s Red Flag to be on show
Chairman Hu Jin Tao’s Red Flag limo caused quite a stir last year when it became the official troop inspection car for China’s 60th birthday bash in mid 2009. Now FAW, the makers of Red Flag, are planning to show off their Civilian Edition of the limo, although they don’t actually say what is different [...]
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