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China’s New Ruling on Foreign Investment Will Not Hurt Current Joint Venture
Via Xinhua: China’s recent move to take finished automobiles off of a list of industries where foreign investment is encouraged will not affect the operations of existing Sino-foreign joint ventures in China’s auto sector, an official with the country’s top economic planner said. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Commerce [...]
Roewe W5 – The First Loser in the SUV market
The SUV segment is the most important growth point in Chinese car market last year. Against the background of dismal increasing rate 2% for the whole car market, SUV has increased by 19% in the first eleven months of 2011. Few models have unsatisfactory sales in this booming market, but RoeweW5 is one of the [...]
Dogger kills spectators during in car sex spree
“Dogging” has become one of China’s latest crazes after car ownership, even though motels catering for lovers young and old are quite prevalent in China, getting your thing on inside your car is becoming the thing to do – things didn’t work quite too well for this gentlemen though, whilst getting busy in his car [...]
Chinese made Ford Focus being shown to dealers ahead of launch
Ford are very conservative with regards to the Chinese car market, their expansion in the world’s biggest auto market has been at a snails pace when compared to their expansion of new technologies and designs in mature markets such as North America or Europe. Whilst European nations already have had their third generation of Focus [...]
Lotus-Proton SUV sighted in China
The Youngman-Lotus range of cars have so far been targeted at second and third tier cities where the brand seems to have the strongest level of support, however the new SUV from Lotus will likely lift the brands awareness across China. This SUV/MPV crossover has been sighted once before on the hallowed pages of China [...]
Next Generation Acura RDX testing in China
The Chinese luxury car market has become a battle ground of immense proportions for luxury cars, in 2011 it was the only segment of the market that saw considerable growth although that might change in 2012 if the Chinese economy slows. Acura have been in the Chinese market for a number of years, but the [...]
VW to launch Bluemotion cars in China
Several years ago at the Beijing Auto Show, VW had the first big push of its Bluemotion technology although consumers at the time didn’t really take to the Bluemotion concept too well. In overseas markets the Bluemotion idea focus on improving the cars fuel sipping capability and aerodynamics. The Chinese market Bluemotion will focus on [...]
ZhongXing’s Crossover SUV to see the market in 2012
Zhong Xing, or rather ZX Auto are the long forgotten Baoding based manufacturer pick up trucks. The truck company is clearly living in the shadow of its more famous neighbour, Great Wall Auto, but the company had a great PR goal in 2011 when its trucks became the truck to own in the recent Libyan [...]
Geely to launch in Italy in 2012
Geely’s inroads into Western Auto market doesn’t just stop and start with its planned entry into Europe via the UK, Geely also plan to set up a car sales network in Italy according to Geely Italy’s Gianluca Gregis. Mr. Gregis told China Car Times that Geely plans to have 300 service centers and dealers in [...]
JLR, the way to success China
A 100% independent local brand, and an international luxury brand, two companies that couldn’t be any more difficult to match up according to traditional Chinese and also Western viewpoints. Luckily, brand is not everything. In terms of Jaguar Land Rover (refer to as JLR), engine development has become the development bottleneck. To grab a share from the [...]
BBAC: bank talks
According to the report from Reuters, 29th of December, Beijing Benz’s finance case, led by China CITIC Bank Co., Ltd. is back to negotiation, loan dropping from 2.8 billion Yuan to 2.6 billion Yuan, Thomson Reuters quoted the information resource from banks,. One source said that the case contains 300 million Yuan of one-year revolving credit [...]
China Pulls the Plug on Foreign Capital in Auto Industry
China’s Ministry of Commerce and the National Reform and Development Commission (NDRC) issued a cryptic statement today stating that support for foreign capital in the auto industry will be with drawn in 2012. What does this mean? We are not quit sure yet, but looking over the market condition it is obvious that China’s Auto [...]
China pulls support for foreign capital in car industry
From BBC via Xinhua: China has said it will withdraw support for foreign investment in the country’s car industry to encourage domestic carmakers, according to state media. The Xinhua news agency cited a joint announcement from the Ministry of Commerce and the National Reform and Development Commission. The report did not provide details of what [...]
Wulin Gaowa takes up the reigns at GM China’s Advanced Design Studio
Wulin Gaowa is making strides in the automotive design world, she is the first female design director to take the reigns at one of GM’s Global Design centers, she will be top man – or rather woman, at GM China Advanced Studio in Pudong, Shanghai. Gaowa is no newcomer to the automotive design world, she [...]
North Korean Police Rolling in BYD F6 Cop Cars
North Korean car producers are few and far between, Reverend Moon of the Moonies did try to set up a car company in North Korea which assembled rebranded Chinese cars such as Brilliance’ and a few pick up trucks under a DPRK only Pyeonghwa Motors brand but it is unclear at what stage this car [...]
Buick Encore SUV spotted in China
How many SUV’s does GM make in China. Answer: 1. GM is synonymous with large trucks and gas guzzling cars, however the American company has only just introduced a single SUV into the Chinese market as a locally produced vehicle, the Chevrolet Captiva was first introduced in 2008 as a Korean built vehicle but was [...]
Saab 9-3 BAIC C70 sedan seen ahead of production
BAIC’s C70, a Saab 9-3 based vehicle, has been spotted out testing ahead of its initial production run this month in Hubei province. BAIC bought teh rights to the 9-3 and 9-5 platforms in late 2010 for 195 million USD for use within its own line up. BAIC plan to build 20 new platforms for [...]
FAW’s B90 Fast Approaching Production Stage
FAW’s Besturn B90 is a sedan that is expected to make it high in the governments fleet procurement lists in a bid to ween civil servants off their Audi fix over 2012, several years ago the government decided that if it was going to spend billions of Dollars each year on car procurement it might [...]
Roewe E1 or possibly MG 1 seen road testing
The Roewe E1 electric vehicle concept was unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in 2011, however since then the car has remained largely at the concept stage like nearly every other Chinese made EV, however the EV1 has been seen out testing on a number of occasions, each time the E1 has been sporting an [...]
China Sets Up Own GPS Rival
China flicked the on switch on its new Beidou Global Positioning Satellite system, a home grown series of satellites that has been launched into space since 2003. China started working on the development of Beidou in the early 2000′s and currently consists of 10 satellites which are able to cover China only for now, but [...]
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