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Your Chinese Dream Garage, What Would You Buy with a Million RMB?

So long time China Car Times reader and comment box user, Gerald, sent me a message over Weibo on Saturday evening asking what car you would buy if you had a hypothetical 1 million RMB lying around doing nothing. Gerald pointed out that the 1 million RMB (circa 160,000USD) was to be used only for the car purchases and any running costs or maintenance…

Dec 3, 2012 Posted by In Culture Tagged bank, bmw, box, buy, car, car purchases, cash, China, circa, Day, dream, Dream Garage, equivalent, evening, extra cash, Focus, garage, Gerald, hand, Jeep, kitty, maintenance, maintenance fees, Mao, Market, message, Million, misery, nissan, nothing, on Saturday evening, palm, Patriot, price, Question, rainy, reader, RMB, Saturday, stuff, suv, time, Times, USD, User, Weibo, X-Trail Comments 16

So the Ford F150 Raptor is Popular in China

The Detroit News is running a report on the popularity of Ford F150 Raptors in the PRC, the hulking big vehicle has been on sale in China for a number of years and has always been a niche product. But why do people buy it? Because they’ve got something unique. Ferrari’s and Lamborghini’s have always been the ultimate sign of wealth but with these cars…

Nov 13, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged access, autohome, bit, CarNewsChina, center, Chang, China, circa, city, com, construction, cost, course, currency, dealer, Detroit, Detroit News, draw, enthusiast, equivalent, Ferrari, Ford, Ford F150, Ford F150 Raptor, government, Isuzu, Lamborghini, license, life, liter, Market, model, motor, News, niche, night, number, ord, pick, Pick Up Trucks, pickup, place, Popular, popularity, PRC, price, product, range, Raptor, Raptors, report, retailing, RMB, sale, sign, site, size, skid, something, sticker, styling, SuperCrew, suspension, SVT, SVT Raptor, tax, time, tow, truck, USD, use, vehicle, vehicles, wealth, website, weight, Wuling, yuan Comments 4

Jeeps Chinese Plans – Two New SUV’s to be Made in China

Jeep became a political over the past two weeks when former presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared in a series of television adverts that Jeep was moving all of its production to China. The Obama camp were quick to respond, as was Sergio Marchionne, the Fiat-Chrysler CEO who stated time and time again that Jeep was moving to China to satisfy Chinese…

Nov 7, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged American-ness, announcement, are, auto, automobile, brand, buccaneer, C-SUV, camp, candidate, car, CEO, Cherokee, China, China Jeep, Chrysler, Commodore Matthew Perry, Compass, Country, CUSW, D-SUV, Daimler, Demand, dirt, end, equivalent, Fiat, Fiat-Chrysler, Grand, guangzhou, Jeep, Jeeps, Liberty, line, manufacturer, Market, Mitt, model, New, Obama, partnership, Patriot, platform, product, production, Santana, Sergio Marchionne, series, Shanghai, shop, story, suv, table, television, time, vehicle, venture, Viaggio, Volkswagen, whilst, world, Wrangler, year Comments 3

Chinese EV’s are worse for the environment than their petrol equivalents

According to Environmental Finance:

Running an electric vehicle in China would emit more greenhouse gases than its petrol-fuelled equivalent, according to an expert in emissions reduction projects.

Despite the countryâ€™s expertise in electric vehicles and its growing manufacturing base â€“ Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn only this…
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Jul 29, 2011 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged are, base, car, carbon, CDM, China, Chinese, Clean, coal, collaboration, company, consultancy, Consulting, Country, development, dioxide, electric car, Electric Cars, electric scooters, electric vehicle, Electric Vehicles, electricity, emit, energy, environment, Environmental, Environmental Finance, equivalent, expert, expertise, Fact, Finance, gas, Gasoline, greenhouse, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, Grid, Gruetter, income, Information, infrastructure, Juerg, Juerg Gruetter, kilometre, Manufacturing, mechanism, methodology, nissan, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn, order, Paz-based, petrol, Power, Powering, project, rail, reduction, scooter, sector, situation, Transit, TransMilenio, transport, UN?s Clean Development Mechanism, vehicle, warming, Week Comments 6