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Facelift Buick Regal Showing Its Face in China

The Regal has been a big hit for Buick China and managed to reignite Chinese interest in the brand, then came the Lacrosse and Buick hit the big time. The Regal has been on the market for a while without any major changes, a new facelift is due later in 2013 along with the Read More →

Feb 8, 2013 Posted by Ash In Chinese Car News Tagged Buick, Buick China, Buick Regal, China The Regal, face, facelift, Lacrosse, major changes Comments 0

Facelift Nissan Livina to Launch in March 2013

Dongfeng-Nissan’s…

Dec 10, 2012 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged brand, configuration, Crossover, CVT, date, Dongfeng, engine, face, facelift, favor, form, fuel, gallery, gearbox, Genesis, guise, hood, launch, line, link, Livina, Livina whilst, March, March 2013, month, nissan, Nissan Livina, Nissan Note, note, petrol, petrol engines, pricing, replacement, Seat, speed, stalwart, Strong Sales, version, Western Europe, whilst, wont, year Comments 8

Chinese Made Peugeot 3008 is Guaranteed to be a Winner

The Peugeot 3008 was originally imported into China, but cost a small…

Nov 28, 2012 Posted by In Dongfeng Peugeot-CitroÃ«n Automobile, Guangzhou Auto Show Tagged China, Chinese made compact SUV, Chinese Made Peugeot 3008, CRV, Dongfeng, Dongfeng-Peugeot, facelift, fortune, gallery, honda, Honda CRV, Market, model, naturally aspirated, Peugeot, Peugeot 3008, pricing, RMB, suv, the Chinese market, version, volume, winner Comments 1

Peugeot 3008 Gets Styled Up in China, To Launch Soon at Dongfeng-Peugeot

The Peugeot 3008 was a handsome car in concept car, but the…

Nov 12, 2012 Posted by In Industry News, Spy Shots Tagged ASX, AWD, Cant, car, China, competition, Concept, concept car, Design, diesel, Dongfeng, engine, exterior, face, facelift, favor, fish, introduction, launch, Market, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi ASX, model, month, mouth, News, option, Peugeot, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot models, Peugot, Power, product, production, range, RMB, sale, spy, Styled, suv, the Chinese market, top, update, weekend, wont Comments 0

New Models Dont Move Sales Up in China for Mercedes, Sales Down 3.9%

Mercedes are struggling to move their models in China, as mentioned previously on China Car Times, Daimler saw a decrease of 7.48% on its C and E-Class sales in the first seven months of the year. Sales were expected to…

Nov 7, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged A-Class, area, Audi, August, B-Class, bmw, C-Class, car, China, class, company, Daimler, decrease, displacement, Dont, E-Class, facelift, generation, GLK, introduction, Market, Mercedes, middle, models, mpv, New, product, RMB, savage, September, suv, tailor, Times, turbo, use, volume, whilst, year Comments 0

Ford Fiesta ST Shows its Big Face in China

The Ford Fiesta has been a hot…

Oct 18, 2012 Posted by In Chang'an Ford, Spy Shots Tagged bhp, big, cannon, China, China after Ford, door, engine, face, facelift, family, Fiesta, Ford, Ford China, Ford Fiesta, Ford Fiesta ST, iron, launch, Market, model, queue, road, seller, spy, ST Fiesta, testing, version Comments 0

Ford Fiesta Saloon Gains Aston Style Grill

The US market Ford Fusion has already been aired in the states, the Chinese version has not yet been officially aired but we have seen it plenty of times out testing and we do enjoy its thinking mans Aston Martin looks, we’re quite sure it will shake up the market when it does arrive in the PRC in early 2013. The Ford Fiesta is likely to be…

Oct 9, 2012 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged Asia, Aston, Aston Martin, Blue, business, company, developing, Ecosport, engine, facelift, Fiesta, Ford, Ford Fiesta, Ford Fiesta Saloon Gains, Ford Fusion, Fusion, gallery, Gear, Grill, launch, link, Market, model, mouth, Operations, Oval, plenty, PRC, saloon, Style, suv, testing, the Chinese version, time, version, world Comments 0

Brilliance H230 and H320 to Launch Soon

Brilliance’ FRV and FSV models…

Jul 24, 2012 Posted by In Brilliance Auto Tagged Brilliance FRV, Brilliance FSV, Chengdu, facelift Comments 2

Facelift Audi A4L Spotted on Chinese Roads

The A4L was a car that turned Audi’s above…

Jul 15, 2012 Posted by In Audi China, Spy Shots Tagged A4L, Audi, Audi China, Changchun, facelift, spyshots Comments 3

Roewe 350 To Gain 1.5T and Six Speed Gears

The MG5 (which I have still not seen on the road) has just been launched with a 1.5L and a four speed auto gearbox, but the Roewe 350, which beat it to the market by a good 18 months, is getting ready to receive the 1.5T that was thought to be destined for the MG5 as well as a six speed gearbox.

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Jul 5, 2012 Posted by In Roewe, Spy Shots Tagged 350, facelift, Roewe, Roewe 350, spyshots Comments 2

New Sorrento Rocking New Style Front Clip and LED Rear Lights in China

The new Kia Sorrento has been spied filling up at a Chinese gas station, the Sorrento is not made in China but it certainly sells well in China. The Sorrento is made in Korea and imported to the Chinese market, over the past few years the big SUV has made quite an impression in China, perhaps not quite as well as the smaller, locally made Sportage but…

Jun 18, 2012 Posted by In Chinese Car News, Spy Shots Tagged 2013 Kia Sorrento, facelift, Sorrento, Spy Shots Comments 0

Facelift Chery A3 Shows New Corporate Grill Seeping Through

Chery’s internal product line up is not exactly coherent, one one side of the dealership you have the ‘premium’ Chery products such as the Chery A3 that were designed by international designers, on the other hand you have Chery’s low cost economy products that look like they were designed within an hours time frame. The A3 falls into the premium category,…

Jun 14, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Chery Automobile, Spy Shots Tagged Chery A3, facelift, Spy Shots Comments 2

GLK Sporting Face Lift in China

Mercedes unveiled their facelift GLK SUV in March this year with computer renders showing the minor changes to the cars front and rear: More bulbous lights at the front in line with the other Merc SUV’s, and a redesigned front clip with LED day light running lights.

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May 30, 2012 Posted by CatherineQu In Spy Shots Tagged Audi, car, China, China Mercedes, China versions, computer, facelift, GLK, line, March, Merc, Mercedes, running, sun, suv, version Comments 0

Chery A3 getting mystery facelift

Chery’s A3 has been a rallying point for the company, the Italian designed hatch and sedan showed that Chery was moving away from odd designed vehicles and trying its best to keep up with the automotive world’s latest design trends. When the A3 aired it was arguably the best looking Chinese hatchback on the road, but that was 2009 and no major updates…

May 14, 2012 Posted by In Chery Automobile, Spy Shots Tagged A3, Chery, facelift, Spy Shots Comments 1

Peugeot 3008 China Model Unveiled Via Spy Shots

SUV’s + China = Big Business. This is the formula that…

May 10, 2012 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged 3008, facelift, Pegeuot 3008, Spy Shots Comments 0

JAC Heyue RS (J6) also gets a facelift

In addition to the new S-II SUV, S-11 sports copupe, the facelifted…

Apr 18, 2012 Posted by Nathan Y In Beijing Auto Show, JAC Motors Tagged facelift, heyue rs, j6, jac, jac heyue rs, jac j6 Comments 2

New Hyundai Elantra Receives Slight Changes for China

Hyundai are a company that can do no wrong, the Korean brand has seemingly come from no where in the past 24 months to being one of the more note worthy brands. The Elantra was already a strong seller in the Chinese market, although that’s probably due to multiple generation of vehicles being on sale, but the latest Elantra is going to wipe the floor…

Apr 17, 2012 Posted by In Beijing Auto Show, Beijing Hyundai Tagged Beijing Auto Show, Elantra, facelift, update Comments 0

Brilliance FRV gets major update for 2013

The FRV has quickly become a bread and butter car for Brilliance, the hatchback first aired in late 2008 and quickly became popular thanks to its low cost but spacious interior. Over the course of the past 4 years the FRV has been given several minor updates and also a Crossover version. The latest facelift brings the FRV in line with the recently launched…

Mar 22, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Brilliance Auto, Spy Shots Tagged brilliance, facelift, FRV, Spy Shots Comments 0

Chang’an learns from its partner at Mazda for new Aisvin hatch

Feb 23, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Chang'an Motors, Chinese Car News, Spy Shots Tagged Aisvin, chana, Clone, facelift, Mazda3, Spy Shots Comments 1

Facelift Besturn B70 to launch this year

The B70 has been on the market since 2006 and its starting to show, the 70 is based on the last generation Mazda6 and was designed by the Italian designer Giugiaro at Italdesign. For one of the first â€˜big nameâ€™ brands from state owned Chinese automotive manufacturers the B70 has proven to be a hit, early sales were in excess of 8000 units…

Feb 15, 2012 Posted by In Chinese Car News, Spy Shots Tagged B70, Besturn, facelift, Spyshot Comments 1

Brilliance FRV to get mid life cycle update

The…

Feb 6, 2012 Posted by In Brilliance Auto Tagged brilliance, facelift, FRV, Spy Shots Comments 0

Brilliance FRV facelift for 2012

The FRV was Brilliance’s life force over the past two years, the mini car has certainly raised Brilliance’s profile in a major way by being their bread and butter vehicle in some hard times. The company followed up the launch of the FRV with the oddly proportioned FSV saloon which was not as popular as FRV or its larger BS4 cousin. For 2012 Brilliance…

Nov 15, 2011 Posted by In Brilliance Auto, Spy Shots Tagged brilliance, facelift, FRV, spy Comments 0

SouEast V3 gets minor make over for 2012

SouEast maybe a small company but they have not slowed down their work on improving the SouEast V3 over the past few years, the V3 is based off the last generation of Mitsubishi Lancer so has a solid platform underneath of it The V3 is powered by a 1.5L engine which is popular with younger buyers who are eager to push the limits of the 120bhp engine….

Sep 22, 2011 Posted by In Soueast Motors, Spy Shots Tagged bhp, engine, facelift, gallery, Interior, link, Mitsubishi Lancer, model, platform, SouEast, upgrade, work Comments 1

Jeep Patriot hits the market in China â€“ priced at 230,000rmb and rising

Jul 27, 2011 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged Anniversary, AWD, brand, Chrysler, Compass, Country, engine, facelift, introduction, Jeep, launch, Market, model, offer, Patriot, pricing, RMB, series, splash, standard, today, town, version, Wrangler, year Comments 0

Tiguan to get a facelift and 1.4TSI engine in the China

The Tiguan has been a major hit for Shanghai VW since it was first introduced last year, the car first came to the Chinese market as an imported model but the car was later put into production locally where it became very popular very quickly with long lead times and some dealers increasing the pricing. The imported Tiguan came with a more offroad friendly…

Jul 27, 2011 Posted by In Industry News, Shanghai VW, Spy Shots Tagged addition, amount, angle, approach, bumper, car, engine, facelift, field, gallery, Golf, hit, Lavida, lead, major, Market, MINI, model, New, offroad, price, pricing, production, RMB, segment, start, stuff, suv, Tiguan, Tiguans, Track, TSI, year Comments 0

GWM releases final Hover H6 pictures

The Hover H6 is the first new Hover from Great Wall that is not based around a facelift of the original Hover H3, the H6 is going to be a city-fied car that has a greater focus on its handling rather than its offroad ability when it finally makes it to the roads. Chinese consumers got their first look at the H6 when it was launched at the Shanghai Auto…

Jul 26, 2011 Posted by In Great Wall Motors Tagged ability, auto, bhp, car, course, CVT, diesel, engine, facelift, Focus, gallery, Gasoline, GWM, Hover, interest, introduction, launch, link, Look, max, offroad, Power, show, speed, suv, talk, torque, year Comments 1

Beijing built Mercedes GLK pops out for pictures with minor facelift and 2.0T

Beijing-Benz, the joint venture between Beijing Auto Industry Corp (BAIC) and Mercedes Benz have finally unveiled their locally built GLK for the Chinese market. The premium crossover market has certainly heated up in the past few months since the market leaders, Audi, introduced the Q5 meaning that Audi’s Germanic rivals have had to rush their own…

Jul 14, 2011 Posted by FrankF In Beijing-Benz, Industry News Tagged amount, Audi, Audi Q5, auto, BAIC, beijing, Beijing Auto Industry Corp, Benz, competition, Corp, course, Crossover, facelift, gallery, Germanic, GLK, Industry, link, Market, Mercedes, Mercedes GLK, Mercedes-Benz, minor facelift, model, Premium, price, RMB, run, venture, year Comments 0