Archive for the ‘Chery Automobile’ category
This is the next generation of Chery QQ
The Chery QQ set the Chinese automotive world alight, and to some extent it burned the fringes of the traditional auto makers in the West and the East, the QQ was the start of the clone wars which would hit the Chinese market until…. well, the clones haven’t yet entirely stopped with some smaller auto [...]
QQ3 Sports Edition Spied
The QQ3 was a Chinese automotive revolution on four wheels when it first launched way back in 2003, however from that point on the QQ was brushed over in favor of rapidly expanding the rest of the Chery line up and sales began to suffer as other Chinese car manufacturers began to push out their [...]
Chery’s Riich brand hitting the rough tracks in path to developing higher end brand
Riich dealerships in Beijing are closing down and withdrawing from the market, which leads to reflections over the situation of China’s high-end homegrown brands. Some people think it’s not the right time for homegrown automakers to launch high-end brands. It’s true that the homegrown brands are not so successful in their expansion to the high-end [...]
Riich G6 launched in China, priced high
Today is the birthday of The People’s Liberation Army, the military force was founded on August 1st 1927 and its on the PLA’s birthday that Chery decided to launched the new Riich G6. The Riich G6 will be aimed squarely at business users and government fleet procurements, hence the August 1st launch. The G6 comes [...]
Multiple Riich G3′s spotted from all angles
The Riich G3 is Chery’s first compact sedan for the Riich brand, Riich have already launch the G5 but sales seem to be quite low so far with them seldom being seen on the roads. The Riich G3 uses the same platform as the recently launched Chery E6 but has some slightly better tech under [...]
Is this a QQ3 Sports?
As mentioned many times on China Car Times the rapidly aging Chery QQ3 will be getting a minor update for 2011/12 and a new generation of car for 2012/13, the below model appears to be the aforementioned 2011/12 facelift model complete with a sports license plate holder. We’re not entirely sure which part makes it [...]
Riich G2 sighted out testing, detailed pictures taken
The Riich G2 will be a compact hatchback to rival the Emgrand EC7-RV when it launches later this year, the G2 will carry a 1.5L from Chery’s ATECO range which is good for 109bhp and 140Nm, not exactly a fast car but perfect for inner city jaunts around town. Overall the G2 looks like it [...]
Chery plans low-profile ceremony for three-millionth car
Compared with the previous high-profile ceremony for two-millionth car, Chery is planning a low-profile one for its three-millionth car when the company is in the critical period for its strategic transformation, i.e. to shift its focus from extensive growth relying on output and sales amount to the intensive growth relying on product quality and brand [...]
Chery’s T21 SUV sighted out testing ahead of launch
Chery maybe one of the leading Chinese car companies in terms of volume sales, but its actual line up is very confusing to the automotive analyst, however this strategy seems to be working as its giving consumers a major choice in vehicle once they venture inside the Chery dealerships. The below SUV has been codenamed [...]
Riich G6 with a 3.0L V6 spotted out
Is the new Riich G6 the biggest engined production Chinese car to date? Of course FAW produced the Hong Qi Limo which was rocking a domestically made V12 engine, but that car was only made to limited order and the below G6 is likely to see mass production in the next few months. The 3.0L [...]
Chery to launch new brand with Quantum LLC, Qoros to be born soon.
The dust has not yet settled between Chery and Subaru, a contract has been signed between the two but details of the deal have not yet been released to the public, it’s likely that the Forrester will be introduced into China in the next 12 to 18 months as a locally made vehicle but Chery [...]
Facelift Chery QQ coming with Crossover version
The Chery QQ has fought a long hard battle since its first introduction into the Chinese market way back in 2003, it was difficult for Chinese consumers to warm to small cars in the early days as they were deemed unsafe (and they weren’t wrong) but the QQ won everybody over with its cute looks [...]
Chery to Burma/Myanmar with a new factory
From Xinhua: Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. is planning to set up a car assembly plant in Myanmar, the company said Friday. The plant will be capable of rolling out 3,000 to 5,000 Chery’s QQ3 compact cars annually, said Jin Yibo, a spokesman with Chery Auto. The company has so far received nearly 10,000 orders for [...]
Chery A4 rendered and sighted
When the Chery A3 first came out it left a lot of people impressed, its design and handling showed that Chery had come on a long way since its humble beginnings, of course not all of the design and engineering work was carried out in house as Chery had outsourced the majority to international companies [...]
Facelift QQ for this year, next generation model delayed
As the unofficial Chinese People’s Car, the QQ3 is certainly due for an update since its introduction in 2003. Although it is quite old in the automotive world the QQ still manages to bring in sales averaging 8,000 to 10,000 units per month. The new QQ3 was expected to launch at the Shanghai Auto Show [...]
Chery E5 to be priced from 70,000rmb
The recently announced Chery E5 is expected to be launched very soon and with a price tag of 70,000rmb and rising. An official launch time has not yet been announced, but it is expected to be in the third quarter when the Chinese car market picks up, the summer months usually see a drop in [...]
Chery Eastar unveiled in Shanghai
For Chery their seems to be no cohesive design theme going through their brands, probably due to them using design houses such as Pininfarina and then also using their own internal design team to make a few models – the lack of a structured design theme is really bringing them down in international circles. On [...]
Chery E5 launched in Shanghai
Chery’s E5 is Chery’s latest economy sedan for the Chinese market (and perhaps abroad as well), the E5 is likely to replace the aging A5 sedan (or is it?) and will be on sale in the next few months. Chery have launched a new design theme for their Chery range of vehicles that will make [...]
Chery gets 43 billion RMB in funding, to adjust high end brands
Chery inked a strategic partnership agreement with China Development Bank (CDB) on April 11. According to the agreement, CDB will provide financial support of about 43 billion yuan to Chery in 2011 to 2015. It will help Chery cope with the increasing financial stress from R&D demands, necessity of making breakthrough in high-end market and [...]
Chery’s next generation Oriental Son
The Oriental Son was Chery’s first big sedan, it was a well received model at the time due to other Chinese manufacturers being unable to make such a mid size sedans at the time, and joint venture companies being unable to make a large sedan at a low cost. The Oriental Son is coming back, [...]
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