Archive for the ‘Tianjin Xiali’ category
XiaLi’s WeiZhi hops on the Crossover wagon
Crossovers are all the rage in China and often outsell their none crossover rivals by a fair old pace, of course the latest trend is to hop on the bandwagon by raising your models suspension by an inch or so and adding black cladding around the car to give it that offroad look and feel [...]
Xiali’s five year plan – more cars, not necessarily good ones
Xiali is China’s Skoda, that’s Skoda before VAG group took it under its own group wings. Xia Li’s have so far been Daihatsu and Toyota based cars and generally trade off a good home market in Tianjin and the fact that they make some of the cheapest cars in the market. As the Chinese government [...]
XiaLi N5 to spawn a cross version
What do you do when you cant sell enough of a particular model? You slap on some black plastic cladding and raise the suspension by an inch or two and call it a crossover, crossovers never fail to sell in the Chinese market. FAW have figured out that local consumers seem to love crossover vehicles [...]
FAW’s Xenia MPV spotted out testing
FAW are putting, or rather forcing, a new lease of life into the Xenia MPV which they first brought into China with their former joint venture partner Daihatsu. Daihatsu recently unexpectedly quit the Chinese market and left its IPR to FAW who have since continued to make the Xenia MPV but under their own brand [...]
Tianjin FAW to buy Corolla platform for own brand
Tianjin FAW have reportedly bought the 9th generation Toyota Corolla platform, which FAW plan to use to build their own range of cars on, possibly the Besturn range rather than Hong Qi. Media reports state that FAW is planning to make an A-segment sedan, but with the B50 already close to production, we’re unsure what [...]
Xia Li N3 – gets an update for 08
The Xia Li N3 saloon (and hatchback) are possibly the main staple car sales for Xia Li cars. The N3 has been on the market for quite some time, and has been given a friendlier face for 2008. The new and updated Xia Li N3 uses a 1.0l engine that has been updated to make [...]
FAW Xia Li to build factory in Mexico
Only one other Chinese automaker has built a plant in North America, Zhongxing got in there early with their announcement, but the second player to get into Mexico will be none other than FAW’s sub brand, Xia Li. Xia Li have signed up with a currently unknown Mexican partner and will be ready to start [...]
Xia Li N3 quietly disappears from the Beijing market
You may, or may not have heard that in 2008, Beijing will hold the Olympic games for the first time. One problem though – the pollution. Its been talked about, its been gossiped about, but most of all its been over exaggerated, a lot. Sure Beijing is dirty, but it aint that dirty that [...]
War of the super cheap minis: Xia Li upgrade to a new engine!
Last week we talked about the Geely Mei Ri which has recently dropped its pricing to become very competitive in the super cheap motoring sector. The Xia Li N3 has gone under an engine upgrade and now starts at 30,000rmb – marginally more expensive than the Geely (by a single dollar) The N3 has changed [...]
Tianjin Xia Li Wei Le – Xiali Vela Test Drive Review
This is for the those that say we dont post good things about Chinese cars First things first, this car was a rental car, it was approximately six months old and had only done 10,000km so it was reasonably ‘new’ when we got our hands on it. Further understanding of Xia Li is required before [...]
There Are Some Brave Souls in China
Brave enough to put a 2.0L Twin Cam Toyota engine into a tiny, tiny, Xia Li hatchback. It looks like they standard off with a reasonably standard Xia Li, just changing the alloy wheels and the front skirting to start with, then they get all crazy and drop the 2.0L Toyota engine in there. AshAsh [...]
Zhong Hua TV Advert
Check out this Chinese TV commercial for Zhong Hua, via Youtube, here’s another. Have to say, Zhong Hua’s cars are looking great – it must be the BMW input! 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 [...]
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