Archive for the ‘Beijing Auto Show’ category
Dongfeng Still in the Hummer Business
Thought the Hummer concept died with the Hummer brand? Think again. Dongfeng are Hummer mad, Dongfeng released the civillian version of their own Humvee a few months ago with a price tag of 1 million RMB for the Cummins powered vehicle, the real one imported from the US of A costs around 800,000RMB, even less [...]
Gang of Thieves Targeting Camera Equipment at the Beijing Auto Show
The Beijing Auto Show was not a particularly good one this year, the cars are always good, the location, the traffic, and the event center were major let downs as per usual. This year a gang of thieves were roaming the exhibition center stealing camera lenses from photographers at stands, a lens is often far [...]
Luxgen CEO MPV Unveiled in Beijing
The Taiwanese car company, Yulong, are off to a great start with their new Luxgen brand. The Luxgen 7 SUV launched in late 2011 and seems to have gained good traction in the SUV segment, next up to the market is the Luxgen CEO MPV. What does a CEO need in an MPV you might [...]
Does FAW Actually Understand the Car Market?
FAW was China’s first car producer, the Changchun based auto maker started churning out trucks but later turned its hand to passenger cars Mao Zedong’s behest. The first cars were Hong Qi’s based on Soviet Tech, but later Audi’s and Toyota’s became emblazoned with the Hong Qi logo. FAW snapped up regional auto makers like [...]
Beijing Auto’s Back Yard Party – New Saab’s, New Jeeps, Fantastic Design As Standard
With the Beijing Auto Show happening in Beijing Auto’s back yard, Beijing Auto weren’t going to let the Southern automakers like SAIC and GAC take all the headlines for themselves. Instead BAIC finally rolled out its own Saab based vehicles, the platforms for these vehicles were purchased at the end of 2010 and are only [...]
Chery Ants Take to the Stage
With the Chinese traffic situation getting worse and worse, along with the emissions situation the Chinese government is giving some serious thought to Smart Networks that will allow cars to interact with their surroundings. The majority of Chinese traffic jams are due to driver error, people being too eager to jump lanes as soon as [...]
CH Auto reveals electric two-seater Lithia
You might remember Beijing-based CH Auto revealed a sports car in the 2010 Beijing Auto Show called the Aculeus, which would use a BMW-sourced engine. They are now back with an all-electric concept coupe called Lithia, or “Red Scorpion” (红蝎) in Chinese. The car is 4502mm long, 2046mm wide and 1265 tall, with a 2700 [...]
Haima Receives New Mid Size Sedan
Out of all the FAW brands, only Haima seems to have products that I would actually buy with my own money. Hong Qi seems to have gone away with old Toyota models, I have no way of telling my dad I drive a Best-Urn and the Oley/Xia Li designs are just not my cup of [...]
Hawtai Grows Up, Gives Models a New Name.
Hawtai models seemed to have gained a Kia style ‘bow tie’ for their models in 2012 and beyond, the early B11 and B21 interior were rough – very rough, but this year it seems Hawtai have been paying a great amount of attention to the little things, overall their models are vastly improved. The Boliger [...]
Zotye T600: Part Unique, Part Audi Q5
The Zotye T600 concept SUV was unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show, despite the T600 having a nose similar to the Fiat Freemont and the rear end of the Audi Q5 it seemed no Chinese press were overly eager to take a photo of the new model. We at China Car Times like to consider [...]
Chery TX SUV Takes the Limelight
Chery’s TX Concept SUV was one of the stars of the auto show, the new SUV seems to incorporate what might be a new design style for the Anhui based company. Chery’s current design theory is very mish mash owing to their frequent hiring of multiple international design houses but leaving lower end models design [...]
Chinese prefer AE-86 to FT86
In 2005 Hong Kong Directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak made a movie adaptation of the Japanese Manga and Anime series, Initial D. My Japanese friends seem to be in disgust that the series was made into a movie, even worse that a non Japanese director made the movie. They claim some sort of cultural [...]
BYD and Daimler’s Denza Concept Shines in Beijing
BYD and Daimler’s electric creation took to the auto show floor for the first time at the Beijing Auto Show this week. The cooperation between a world famous electric car company and a not so famous car company did initially come as a shock to the auto world, but both have clear points that both [...]
Toyota Qin, the other Qin on display at the Beijing Auto Show
BYD launched a Qin, Toyota also launched a Qin. The difference? Well the difference is all in the Qin, Toyota’s Qin is 亲 which means Dear, as in ‘dear friend‘, BYD’s Qin is 秦 named after the bad ass marauder who got tired of petty squabbles between Chinese regional warlords and took the whole country [...]
Geely’s SX Series Merge Bentley with Chinese Style
Every auto show you can guarantee that Geely will make something that will impress or distress. The Englon series of cars did not fail our expectations. The Englon brand, which stands for England-London, was spurred on by the introduction of the London Taxi into the Geely range which saw Geely take a handsome share in [...]
Smart Fortwo Dragon Edition for China
So it seems that manufacturers have realized that China is a hot market for automobiles, and they’ve learned a little bit about Chinese culture as it’s the year of the dragon. The results? Special edition Dragon models everywhere. Aston Martin has one, Jeep has one, and of course Smart has to have one. The mini [...]
Shou Wang Comes Back to China
Hyundai’s Shou Wang brand was born at the Guangzhou Auto Show in late 2011, the spy shots that were later aired seemed to show a rebranded Hyundai Elantra, a model that lacks the sex appeal of the original Shou Wang Concept. In 2011 the Shou Wang concept was firmly attached to the wall at the [...]
Ssangyong XIV2 Unveiled in China
Ssangyong has some solid products however they have never been able to gain mass sales with their chassis based products that are more at home in rural areas than they are in urban environments. The now Indian owned company is moving towards developing smaller platform based SUV’s to attract more buyers, the Korando was the [...]
New Elantra Launches in Beijing, Euro 2012 included
Three generation of Elantras will be on sale in China by the middle of 2012, the eighth generation launched today in Beijing and comes along with a Euro 2012 special edition model that will likely never make it to the dealerships. The new Elantra has a slight facelift over the Euro and NA versions, but [...]
Suzuki Clinging to Life in China
Suzuki has become Japan’s Chrysler. Suzuki’s range of cars remain on the smaller side in terms of size. Aside from the company’s SUV and slow selling Kizashi sedan, Suzuki still remains tied to its small car range such as the Swift and the SX4. The aforementioned cars are Suzuki’s big hitters for the Chinese market, [...]
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