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Dodge Avenger for China
Although China Car Times is clearly for Chinese cars (and the industry) we do have a soft spot for modern American cars. The latest offerings from Dodge look quiet tasty (and are cheap!) The Avenger for example looks excellent, bold lines from the 70′s straight in your face in 2008. We love it. Dodge are [...]
Bronco based Beijing Jeep!
The name ‘Jim Corty’ must be the stuff of legends in the Beijing Jeep factory, for he is the man who managed to keep a Beijing 2020 Jeep on the road, and in reasonably good condition for more than 24 hours at a time, although he only managed it with a little help from a [...]
Chrysler to get in on small car business in China?
Getting in on the small car business pretty much saved Chevrolet, and Chrysler seems to be looking at the same business model. According to the Wall Street Journal, Chrysler has indicated that they wish to enter the small and compact car segment to raise sales. Chrysler sold less than 8,000 vehicles in China in 2006, [...]
Dodge Caravan ready for Q4 sales
Dodge are aiming to get the Chinese made Caravan ready for Q4 sales in 2007. Dodge have teamed up with SouEast motors to get the domestically made Caravan out on to the roads to rival the Buick GL8′s long standing dominance over the luxury business MPV sector. The older generation caravans have been available in [...]
Sebring about to enter the market, but will it go home crying?
The segment of upper class medium sized cars has long been dominated by the likes of Toyota with their Camry and Honda with their Accord, a few other players have taken to the streets such as Roewe but only after spending millions of RMB on advertising, MG have turned up but its yet to be [...]
Up close and personal with the Chinese made Chrysler 300c
The Chrysler 300c is a car with big chunky looks, if Rocky Balboa was a car, he’d look like this car. The 300c has made for good sales for embattled Beijing Benz the maker of the 300c in China. Over the past week China Car Times managed to get our dirty oily hands on what [...]
Beijing Jeep produced already?
We heard today from the Chinese motoring press that the Beijing Military jeep named, ‘The Warrior’ has already come off the production line. The second generation Beijing Jeep for military use, and possible future civilian purchase looks a lot more rugged than the previous 2020 Jeep which was pretty much a Soviet Russian-come-USA Jeep Wrangler [...]
Mitsubishi stops producing the Outlander in China
Beijing-Benz will stop producing the first generation Mitsubishi Outlander from early next year due to an end of contract which doesnt seem to have been renewed. The Outlander delivered a shock to the Chinese auto market when it was first released in China, its unusual styling halfway between station wagon and SUV made it popular [...]
Stretched 300C turns up in the motherland
The Chrysler 300c is arguably one of the best looking American made cars on the road today, actually, we could argue that its not American but made in China, at least for the Chinese market via the Beijing Benz tie up. Whatever, the 300c is cool. Despite the high 300c price in China, the base [...]
Nearly 11,200 Mercs sold in China so far this year
Merc execs must be 169% happy with their overall performance this year, and especially in China where they managed to sell 11,200 cars in the period from Jan 2007 to May 2007, this figure accounts for 72% of Mercedes’ Asia sales so far this year. To further push sales in China, Mercedes will create more [...]
Take your old Beijing Jeep 2020 and make it into a Wrangler
Tired of your old beat-up Beijing 2020? Thinking of giving it a make over for those cool summer months? Then why not make it into a fake Jeep Wrangler? China Car Times will show you how, thanks to some photos we found on the Autohome forums. The Beijing Jeep 2020 is quite popular with ex-pats [...]
Chrysler 300c recall in China
Beijing Benz, the producer of the Chrysler 300c in China, are issuing a recall for 1443 of this years (2007 model) 300c cars. There is an issue with the gearing systems coolant which needs to be rectified, according to the Chinese press. The domestically made vehicle, priced at a whopping 50,000USD has sold well in [...]
Beijing Benz and Chang’an Motors to IPO in Hong Kong
Hold on to your IPO hats – both parties are after a slice of foreign money, foreign money that they cant get hold of via the Chinese mainland markets. BEIJING Automotive Industry Holding and Chongqing Chang’an Auto plan to raise US$1 billion each in initial share sales in Hong Kong, South China Morning Post reported, [...]
Jeep Commander Commanding Its Way to China
The Jeep Commander is finally on its way to China in time for its official unveiling at the Shanghai Auto show later this month. The Commander was unveiled at the 2005 New York Auto Show and was put into production in early 2006. The seven seater Commander is a tiny 2 inches longer than its [...]
Is the Chery A1 to become Dodges first economy car?
Chinese car website, autohome.com.cn is reporting that the Chery A1, pictured below, sometimes known as the Chery Kimino in export markets could be the first Dodge badged super mini car to reach European and US shores. Dont worry if you think its too plain, Chery also make a sports model Chery made the A1 especially [...]
FAW want Chrsyler?
According to the Chinese governments English mouthpiece, the China Daily, it seems that FAW (First Automotive Works) are attempting to get their fingers into the Chrysler pie. FAW already have lots of joint venture agreements with various top brand car manufacturers – they have deep pockets as they didnt go running after MG Rover like [...]
Get yourself a Jeep 2500 for only 100,000RMB
Bei Qi Autos, a company that has long been in a joint venture agreement with the iconical American SUV maker Jeep. Beijing Autoworks and the then AMC hooked up in 1984, production continued even after Chrsyler bought out AMC. For over 20 years the design of the Jeep Cherokee has not changed much, except for [...]
Dodge ‘Sai Bai Ling’ – Sebring to be put into production in Beijing
We reported the other day that Dodge plan to sell their vehicles in China (ala GM to make up some lost cash) at the time there wasnt much info to go on other than the headline, more information has been anounced at it seems like Dodge plans to produce the above Sai Bai Ling (at [...]
Is the Hornet a Chery or not?
It seems Dodge are getting a bit worried about Cherys quality levels, at least according to the Autoweek. The Autoweek article points out that Chrysler cant decide if Chery should be using their own designs to build up Dodge vehicles or use Dodges own in house designs and then outsource the manufacturing to Chery. SHANGHAI [...]
New Beijing Jeeps
At the Beijing Car Show, the new Beijing Jeeps were unveiled, the Brave Warrior which is meant for military use plus a newer updated version of the original 2020, except this one is called the ‘Gladiator’ (角斗士 – jiao dou zhan) The Brave Warrior: China Car Times commented on the Brave Warrior before, but once [...]
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