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Quite Possibly The Cheapest Car EVER!

The Chery QQ was tipped as being the cheapest car in China, at 21,000RMB for the smallest engine QQ, with the least optional extras is quite a bargain, $2700USD for a car that will take you around town, and get you from A to B in the cheapest possible way. Just hope you don’t crash it, otherwise the money you saved will probably go on medical bills, and those extended stays in hospital can really add up!

Erik at CMVDC pointed this car out to us, we posted about Pride Autos previously but decided this paticular model needs extra special attention. We show you, the Pride mini car. We don’t even know its proper name, only that it looks, and is probably based off the Daewoo Tico. This cars price tag is a bargain 19,800RMB or $2500USD. However, you probably wont see this on the roads of the USA or Europe anytime soon.

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update: After a little bit of further research into Pride automobiles, we found out that the above Daewoo tico like mini car is being touted as the ‘farmers car’ We believe Prides goal is to set themselves up as having the Chinese ‘Peoples Car‘ at 19,800RMB per car, I think they might just do that!

Plucking Cherys Cherry

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It seems the old saying ‘What goes around, comes around’ is all too true. The plucky little automobile company, Pride Autos, based in the city of (Binzhou in Shandong province, seems to be famous for its democratic city government) has pulled a fast one over Chery (we think) We’re not sure if Pride paid Chery for the technology behind their saloon (above) which looks a lot like the Chery Eastar Prides ‘travelling wagon’ (pictured below) also seems to resemble an extended station wagon version of the Chery Windcloud, which was based off an older generation Seat Toledo, however Chery did legally buy the rights to use the Toledo tech. I wonder what the deal with Pride is?

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