Explaining the Chinese Car Industry and Chinese Cars
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This has to be the most awesome Chinese vehicle we’ve ever seen. Nothing gets better than this, not the Roewe 750, the 550, the Geely GT, or anything else we’ve ever mentioned as being great, or awesome.
This guy took his Santana 1000, a whole wad of fiber glass (there doesnt appear to be any metal panel lines down the sides) and for extra added ultra coolness:
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Continue reading ‘Santana + Fiber glass + mad weekend = ocean going vessel with gullwing doors’
Last week we showed you ‘When car mods go bad‘ this week we show you ‘When car mods go REALLY bad!’
Not everyone can afford a motor from a luxury marque, some of us in China have to make do with domestically made vehicles rather than import models. Its those that buy the Chinese made models, and then adorn them with foreign labeling that make us smile the most.
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Chinese car modifications are usually just the adding of cute seat covers, Snoopy sets are popular (as China Car Times does indeed have Snoopy car seats) or some Disney stickers down the side of their car (popular with women) another modification that appears to be gaining popularity is applying your English name, (and your wife/girlfriends) on the rear using chrome style plastic lettering. Its always easier to spot your ex girlfriend driving around in her latest boyfriends Infiniti SUV this way.
This particular modified car, a Suzuki Alto, is a true mess. It combines dirt, cute stickering, odd SUV attachments, and an awful interior to create a particulariary vile car. We wonder what the resale value on this would be, if any, or what if the car owner saved his cash and bought a much better car instead?
The Brilliance BS4, or Jun Jie in Chinese, is a popular car in China due to its low cost, and good looks. Its not often though, that their owners modify them:
This guy added scissor doors:
Are scissor doors cool on anything but a supercar? China Car Times cant decide. Overall this car doesnt look so bad, except for that gaudy gold bonnet and the coffee table on the back end.
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 living in China, we have no idea why though - its loud, its slow, its terribly hard to keep running (so we hear) and its hardly a chick magnet, is it?
We wonder if any members of the Peoples Liberation Army are reading? Perhaps they can convert their 2020’s into Wranglers? More after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Take your old Beijing Jeep 2020 and make it into a Wrangler’
We found this craptacular piece of souped up motoring when looking through the Chinese language Autohome.com forums.
It seems the owner was a bit bored of his standard Zhonghua Brilliance BS6 and tarted it up a bit, he did however, manage to make it look absolutely awful excellent!. It looks almost as bad beautiful as the SOAR Brilliance, but with a sportier look about it.
Click the above for a bigger image! The cars owner apparently spent 17,00rmb on this hand made bodykit.
To see more of the monster, click continue reading.
Continue reading ‘Oh no! Just what did you do you do to your Brilliance BS6?’
One of the SOAR Automotive vehicles was spotted by the top guys at the Winding Road site. It seemed SOAR automotive couldn’t/didn’t get get a place inside the Shanghai Auto Show hall, but instead parked one of their vehicles outside in the carpark and stuck some posters on the windscreen and front dash. Nobody knew what that car was based off, not until the brave super heroes of China Car Times came along. SOAR Automotive are based in the suburbs of Qingdao, China Car Times is based in Qingdao too. What a coincidence.
The first car spotted by Winding Road, and a few other automobile related blogs was this SOAR Automotive 1, as already mentioned, parked up in the parking lot with posters covering the windows. It has an interesting grill and a pair of tiny wheels. What is this car based off?
Wouldn’t you like to know! Click continue reading, to find out more and see some odd cars from SOAR automotive.
Continue reading ‘A sight for SOAR eyes - A look at SOAR Autmotives vehicles’
The Chinese Innovative Festivity for Auto Accessories and Customization Industry (try saying that when your drunk) otherwise known in its acronym format, CIAACE, was held in Beijing this month from April 9th to April 12th, unfortunately China Car Times didnt get a chance to visit, but we did manage to steal some of the photos from autohome.com.cn, click continue reading to see more photos of Chinese cars that have been done up rather nice.
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China Car Times will bring you not one, but TWO, yes TWO stories of modified Chinese cars today! The first one is this Mei Bao/Beauty Leopard. I saw a very similar one at the weekend Im wondering if its the same car? Probably not! Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom to see all of the pictures!
Hot on the heels of the last tuned up car we brought you, the souped up Cherry QQ, we bring you the Xiao Wang Zi!
Dong Feng make the Little Prince, otherwise known as ‘Xiao Wang Zi’ in Chinese, they have a website for it but you hardly ever actually see the Little Prince out on the road. Early this morning a good friend of China Car Times had a baby and China Car Times found himself walking down the road with a brand new baby bath under his arm - not an unusual site, seeing a white guy walking down the road with a baby bath under his arm, in China, not unusual at all. I digress - I did see this beefed up Little Prince in a car park.
The Little Prince is very much like a Kia Qian Li Ma - literally the 1000 kilometer horse car as Dongfeng and Kia are in cooperation in China….. You can see the Dong Feng Little Prince at Dong Feng’s Little Prince Website here.
UPDATE: China Car Times did a bit of ‘Baidu-ing‘ and found this set of pics of a Qian Li Ma or a Xiao Wanker, er, Xiao Wang Zi but were not too sure about that rear spoiler or the Snoopy seat covers. Note, that site is in Chinese - you have to click the thumbnail images to make them bigger!
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