Archive for the ‘Zotye’ category

Zotye – Bigger things in the pipe works

Zotye maybe just a small Chinese automaker on the surface, but if you actually dig a little deeper into their background, you soon find that they have plenty of history in the Chinese auto industry, but more on that at a later date. It was Chery that rose from no where in the last decade [...]

Zotye 5008 – The 2008 gets a makeover, and a name change

The Zotye SUV is a nice little SUV for a nice little price (around 50-60,000rmb) and with rear wheel drive, it might even take you off the tarmac (although not too far). The Zotye was given a makeover for 2008, and a name change to coincide with the year 2008, cleaverly Zotye came up with [...]

Zotye to expand line up with old Multipla

Fiat and Zotye signed a deal last year, we all thought the deal was a potential JV, but its more like a deal to sell of Fiats old designs to Zotye who will continue to produce them in the PRC.  The first Fiat for Zotye is the Multipla, quite an ugly car when it was [...]

The Zotye 2008

Can you tell which is the Diahatsu Tarios and which is the Chinese made Zotye 2008? Probably not. The Zotye 2008, made by the Chinese company Zhong Tai and named in honor of the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. You may think that the Zotye 2008, known as the Zotye Xplosion (A damned good name [...]