Archive for the ‘Odd Stuff’ category
VW Passat Used in Beijing US Embassy Ram Raid
Obviously these gents should have used the much more robust VW Santana, they might have gotten further than the front gate: From AP BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese men in a car rammed a gate at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in late January, but little damage was caused and the incident is being investigated, [...]
The New Buick Regal makes Shanghai girl go crazy
The new Buick Regal is quite a car, Europeans will know it as the Opel Insignia, but to Chinese markets its certainly the new Regal. CCT is by no means a Buick fan, but the new Regal makes us want to become a Buick owner in our tender 20′s, and it seems the Regals attraction [...]
The American Line Worker in China
This interesting story of a young mans will to learn Chinese culture has been bouncing around the Chinese blogosphere for a week or so, and it makes for interesting reading. The story first appeared on the day before Christmas Eve, and tells the tale of one young Americans goal to become fluent in Chinese, whilst [...]
The most awesome truck in China
This picture needs no description: There is an ‘In Soviet China…’ joke here, but we cant figure it out. AshAsh came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along the way and now focuses his time on watching the Chinese car [...]
Chinese Navy Going After Somali Pirates
It seems that regular attacks on Chinese ships carrying massive amounts of raw supplies out of Africa as well as transporting Middle Eastern oil into China has awoken the sleepy PLA Navy and they’re busy drawing up plans to patrol the Somali coast lines: IHT : In what would be the first active deployment of [...]
Shanghai Chevy girl sticks it to the tow truck man
This video has been flying around the Chinese internet for a few days now. It starts with a girl in Shanghai returning to her car to find its been put on a tow truck, she is obviously not too impressed by the fact that her car is about to be impounded, she hops in her [...]
Chinas first domestically made plane successfully tested
Long term readers of CCT know that sometimes we deviate from the usual China car news and focus on other special items of interest, such as trains, or even planes. It just so happens that China’s first domestically made plane, the ARJ21, has been successfully tested according to the media. The plane was tested at [...]
Chinese roads maybe crazy, but they’re not Indian crazy!
On Delhi highways, this is how they roll: AshAsh came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along the way and now focuses his time on watching the Chinese car industry develop. He has witnessed the market change from being minor [...]
The Transformers of Zhejiang Province
Transformers was as big a movie in China as it was in the USA, a generation of Chinese men grew up watching the first foreign cartoon to be allowed into the PRC and thus, a cult following has been built up around Transformers in China. One man in Zhejiang province, Mr. Zhu, let his enthusiasm [...]
History of the Beijing Cab
Beijing has had cabs as along as its had permenent residents, the earliest of course would have been the man powered rickshaw, but since the advent of the automobile, taxis have become motor powered. China Car Times has done a research into the cabs of Beijing since the 80′s. The Mian Di (面的) The Mian [...]
Turn your Suzuki Alto into a love shack
The following pictures were found on a Chinese forum for Alto fans, the original poster wished to show how you can turn the Suzuki Alto (essentially a Japanese Kei car) into a two man (or woman) bed for any overnight stops. The original posters said he came up with the idea just after the Sichuan [...]
Nissan Qashqai
Its usually other people that email into China Car Times and get their questions posted on CCT, but this time its CCT doing the asking: Is the Qashqai a good car? Are there any Qashqai drivers who read CCT and would like to share their experience? The Qashqai is looking set to become part of [...]
DIY ‘Chopper, very cheap, but not for faint hearted
For those of us who always dreamed of having a cheap personal flying device but never had the chance to own one, then you may well be in luck! It looks like the Chinese will deliver the first low cost personal flying machines! One Chinese guy made his own helicopter, for less than 20,000rmb [...]
A visit to the local second hand car market
The second hand car market is exactly what it sounds like. Its a big empty car lot, people that want to sell their cars drive them to the market, and leave their motor their with a card in the window saying how many KM’s it has on the clock, the general state of the car, [...]
Mr. Lu builds a cage for his Jetta
Cockney wideboy, Kimbal (site not safe for work!), sent us this clipping from The Sun newspaper today. The story of a man named Lu Zhang who built a cage for his automotive pride and joy -a VW Jetta. Mr. Lu built the cage out of frustration after finding his Jetta was missing parts when he [...]
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