Archive for the ‘Odd Stuff’ category
Chonqing’s Mondeo based Police Cruisers
Chonqing is a bad ass place, firstly the town (well, more of a metropolis the size of Portugal) was until recently a big mafia town until some big name District Attorney or the Chinese equivalent, decided to clean the town up. Traffic police are routinely given sub machine guns when on traffic duty and manning [...]
Chinese go mental at automotive boob touch
So you’re driving down the highway and you’ve got a pretty woman to your right, what are you going to do? You’re gonna rub her boobs like there’s no tomorrow of course. But a highway camera operator catches you in the act and leaks the picture to the internet, suddenly you’ve found yourself in the [...]
Why I’m thinking of calling throwing in the driving towel here in China
Driving in China used to be fun, really it did, on the big up hills I could hit 120kph (dont tell anyone though, its 60kph limit within most city centers), on the flat stretches I did more, but now I cant go anywhere fast and the only thing that seems to be going fast is [...]
China’s 60 mile traffic jam – whats it all about?
Foreign media outlets have been going crazy for China’s latest ‘worlds biggest’ extrvaganza, which has turned out to be the worlds longest traffic jam that is spreading over 60 miles and is expected to take months to clear. The Chinese press have reported on the event, but not with the gusto that the foreign press [...]
Santana zero top – perfect for those Zhejiang summers!
Always wanted to have a cheap soft top car to enjoy the summers? Well here is the answer! No need to spend hundreds of thousands of RMB on a rag top Lexus, Volvo or Merc, people will only think you’re a corrupt official (if you’re older) or a spoiled rich kid (if you’re young) or [...]
Apologies
For the past two weeks CCT has been devoid of any large updates, largely due to the fact that I (and others) have been extremely busy elsewhere. I have personally been writing articles for CCT for over two and a half years, sometimes upto ten per day, but probably averaging about 3 per day since [...]
Not your everyday China car – the Ford Sierra
When I was a wee small lad, my father had a 1.6 Ford Sierra complete with front electric windows, and amazingly enough a sunroof AND electric wingmirrors. I was totally blown away by the ultimate ‘James Bond’ car that my dad had bought. So it came to my suprise that a Ford Sierra, albeit the [...]
An ode to Bumblebee
Transformers are big in China, so when the Bumblebee comes to town everyone goes slightly nostalgic for the ‘big yellow bee’. Over the weekend, a few ‘Camaro fans’ got together to go on a Camaro cruise across Shanghai in their Camero-esque cars, even the Chevrolet Cruze from last week took part. Our favorite has to [...]
Chinese guys make supercar from an old Geely, fiberglass, and optimism
These guys in Dongzhuang city in Shandong province built their own supercar styled monster out of a Geely Beauty Leopard, lots of fiberglass and heaps of optimism. Whilst the below car certainly looks the part, we cant help but wonder what sort of noises it’s making. Remember that the Geely Beauty Leopard is a 1.3l [...]
Who made this car originally?
The car to the left was featured on CCT Green earlier today, it’s supposedly being made by Sichuan Yema, but we hear its former French technology. With CCT not being too hot on the French car scene (who would want to be?) we’re not too sure if the above car really has French heritage or [...]
Be an asshole 城管 in GTA
The infamous 城管 (Cheng Guan) that roam the streets of China bullying street peddlers of fruit, or snack food, have now entered Liberty City. A skin has been released for the GTA4 video game where you can dress as a Cheng Guan, and give street peddlers a vicious beating should you so wish. Also available [...]
Kerri Toloczko talks bollocks about Chery
Kerri Tolockzo wrote this article for the Dowagiac Daily (if you dont where this is, we will forgive you). If you don’t know who Kerri is, then we will forgive you for that also. Mr. (Ms?) Toloczko’s article is essentially a piss poor dig at the Chinese, the Chinese car industry and inparticular Chery Auto. [...]
Audi A6 Pick Up Truck
FAW seem to have a real nack for converting everyday cars into trucks, perhaps they are secret Jalopnik readers? Previously it was the VW Jetta truck, and now its the Audi A6 truck: We’re not entirely sure what the A6 truck is actually used for, we know the Jetta was used for internal factory use, [...]
Liu Xiang blamed for crash, tail gating driver not to blame
As far as we know, the only luxury brand that Liu Xiang has been supporting lately is the Caddy brand. If the air bags didn’t go off, it seems like another case of Mr. Wang. From Reuters: BEIJING (Reuters Life!) – A Chinese businessman wants to sue Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang because he was injured [...]
Panther Automobile Spotted!
You may, or may not know who Panther are, but we found a good description here: Panther Westwinds, usually referred to as Panther, was a British specialty automobile manufacturer. The company was founded in 1972 by Robert Jankel and based in Surrey, UK. Panther Westwinds became famous for their retro-styled cars based on production mechanicals. [...]
Peugeot Hoggar – Made in China, but do Peugeot know?
The Peugeot Hoggar was a pretty cool concept when it was first released by Peugeot, but sadly like all really cool concept cars it was just a proof of concept, a way to show that Peugeot still had the will to design cool new cars. The Hoggar was never to be, that is until a [...]
Chang’an Truck – GR8 4 Driftin’
This video has been doing the rounds on various Chinese car forums for some while, but China Smack has now picked up on the story and has kindly uploaded the video to the mighty Youtube: The video, in case you dont want to watch, details a young mans obsession with drifting, but obviously not having [...]
The Friday Question: A compact sedan for my wife!
Good day all – My wife wants a new compact sedan, it must be a compact sedan, no hatches, no compact MPV’s, it must be a sedan. We’ve drawn up a list which we’ll take a look at tomorrow: Honda Civic – 1.8l Nissan Sylphy Ford Focus 2.0 Roewe 550 1.8T (or MG6 should it [...]
How to make the women love you!
Its quite an easy process: 1) Buy a Santana – despite it going out of production every where else in the world in a decade before you were born, you can still buy a good 90′s one in China. The below is a ’95 model. 2) Paint it metallic blue 3) Add some racey bits [...]
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