Perpetually smiling guitar salesmen and media mogul Ian Burns spotted this devout 5-Series on the mean streets of Beijing. Religion was put aside in China from the 50′s to the 90′s, but now that China is more open than ever more people…
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MG are aiming to copy Kia’s rise to success according to MG’s new chief designer, Martin Ulharik, the former Nissan designer was interviewed by Automotive News on MG’s plans for the future. Just ten years ago it would…
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The China Festival of Speed promised so much, at least on paper. A few tell tale signs that the event wouldn’t be up to expectations came via their official website, parts of it were still under construction come opening curtain time but the organizers were active on Chinese social media circles, busily promoting the event to super car clubs, car clubs,…
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This is not your average seven year old. In a village in rural Anhui a seven year old boy, aptly named æ¨é‡‘é¾™ Yang Jin Long (Golden Dragon) is able to use his more than average mass to pull a minivan and carry out other miniature feats of strength. Yang Jin already weighs in at 50kg, the same weight as my wife, and was snapped happily…
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Do you know the Goodwood Festival of Speed? Do you know…
China is famous for some things, chopsticks, gunpowder, fireworks, etc. It is not well known for its ample breasts (not for someone who grew up during the silicone Baywatch/Hollywood era of the 80′s and 90′s anyway), but that’s changing at a rapid pace thanks to auto makers being increasingly eager to have their models bare flesh at auto shows.
China…
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Do you appreciate wooden furniture? Do you like cars? Do you have 300,000rmb in spare cash? if you answered yes to all three then perhaps you need to speak with your banker or you need to buy this splendid wooden car from China’s Xinjiang province. The cars developer had the wooden masterpiece on show at the China-Central Asia Show in Urumqi this…
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On August 29th at 7pm on the G15 highway, a Lamborghini ceased to be. The Lambo driver crashed the 4 million RMB into the central reservation where it caught fire, the driver was trapped in the car and was rescued by emergency services before being sent to hospital. The car could not be saved and burned itself into oblivion.
We hope…
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A few weeks ago I shared an elevator in Shanghai…
The Crown Victoria was the American cop car from the 80′s to just recently when American Police Dept’s started to transfer over to newer more suitable vehicles, still that hasn’t stopped me from lusting after an imported Crown Vic here in China so I can grow a bad mustache and live out my American cop fantasies. Chinese cop cars come in all shapes and…
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“Fake Cabs” are a big issue in China, either they are personal car owners going out at night to pick up the odd fare after the police have gone home for the evening (at ridiculously high rates), or they are completely fake cabs that use taxi rank colors, meters and lights to pick up customers without paying any sort of management fee to the taxi rank…
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On July 19th of last year a 34 year old trucker who has only been named Mr. Zhang by Chinese media sources was trucking sand across the outskirts of Beijing,…
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Beijing Motorists were taken by surprise twice this week, firstly a months worth of rain fell in a matter of hours drenching the city and turning Beijing into water town leaving many residents joking that their homes were now water front property. The second surprise came days later when the Beijing Traffic Police came out to attach fines to cars that…
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One company decided that Lambo’s are just too expensive in China, Lambos cost serious money in the People’s Republic, the base Gallardo starts at 3.5 million and rises to 4.9 million, the Aventador is 6.45 million, not exactly cheap. But there is a second solution for those that want Lambo looks on Toyota money, one company in China is producing Lambo…
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A sales company in Chengdu recently ran a competition…
Remember the man that spat his dummy and destroyed his Lambo in Qingdao? It turns out that he is back in town and trying his hardest to get everyone to know about his…
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What’s 10RMB?…
Back in 2009 strange beasts started to appear on Chinese…
I’m fairly bored of auto shows, I must have been to every major auto show in China in the past six years at least twice, probably more, so when I get another auto show invitation sent my way I treat them with a little bit of skepticism. The Shanghai International Modified Auto Show landed in my inbox in the middle of last week, it started on Friday…
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Youngman’s ‘Lotus’ brand which is essentially made up Proton cars in drag, is being pitched hard as a sports brand in second and third tier cities. They do many auto sports events to prove the prowess of their Malaysian/Chinese cars, one of which includes doing a loop the loop in a wooden loop of death, usually it’s successful, this time it was disastrous:
According to Chinese media reports, a certain Ms. Yang went to visit her local Mustang dealer in Beijing and after showing interest in one of America’s greatest pony cars she decided to take it for a spin, into a wall, destroying the wall and the car in the process. The Mustang is not an official Ford import, Mustangs finds their way into China…
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The Chinese car buying world…
So you have a ’98 Rolls Royce, you’ve probably had the car for 14 years and it still looks pretty good. As one of China’s earlier entrepreneurs you would have had a difficult time buying the Roller as Rolls Royce didn’t officially enter China until 2003, but you bought one anyway and it served you well until 2012 when you decided that the Roller just…
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So China Car Times is 200% automotive related, but sometimes we have to report on cultural issues as well, this report from Guangzhou via the UK’s Telegraph newspaper is nothing but great…
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There was a lot of rumor and speculation with regards to Jeremy Clarkson’s…
Late last year I test drove an MG3 and found it to be a great little car, a few days later GM…
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North…
The New York Times is running an interesting story on automotive stereotypes in China, albeit based on a taxi drivers anecdotes and a PR lady:
Mercedes-Benz,…
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