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JMC’s Qu Sheng Gets Major Early Life Overhaul

When JMC’s Qu Sheng SUV first launched it looked a little rough around the edges especially on the interior, JMC initially launched the vehicle with the option of 5 or 7 seats with 2.4L gasoline or 2.5T diesel engines mated to a 5 speed manual only. The next model will include…

Jan 15, 2013 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged automatic gearbox, diesel engines, Ford, Ford engines, Ford Explorer, Gasoline, JMC, Major Early Life Overhaul, Qu Sheng, seats Comments 2

Foton and Great Wall Reportedly Planning Indian Attack

According to Chinese media reports both Foton and Great Wall Motors are planning to enter the Indian market in the near future. Foton has reportedly acquired a patch of land on which to develop a production facility for commercial vehicles due to the large demand for efficient CV’s in the Indian market.

Great Wall Motors are also reportedly planning…

Dec 11, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged announcement, Chery, Chinese, commercial vehicles, company, diesel, displacement, entry, era, Focus, foton, Gasoline, Great Wall, Great Wall Motors, Growth, India, Indian, Indian market, Market, market entry, part, pick, Society of Indian Auto Manufacturers, suv, turbo, Wall Street Journal Comments 1

Let’s Take a Look at Beijing Auto’s â€œWrangler”

Beijing Auto’s B40 SUV has been spotted out many times, it was initially expected to launch towards the end of 2011 but was effectively delayed until the the launch of the company’s own Shen Bao brand late last month at the Guangzhou Auto Show. Shen Bao will be housing an entirely new range of vehicles all of which are thought to be launching within…

Dec 5, 2012 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged auto, B40, beijing auto, brand, company, date, diesel, door, end, engine, gallery, Gasoline, gasoline engine, gasoline engines, gearbox, Guangzhou auto show, housing, imitation, IPR, IPR Beijing Auto, last, launch, Look, Market, month, mystery, nissan, pricing, range, Saab, semi, Shen Bao, show, speed, succession, suv, take, Tangshan, technology, version, Wrangler, year Comments 5

Geely’s Emgrand Range to Receive EV8 and EX8 in 2013

Geely’s Emgrand brand did seem…

Dec 5, 2012 Posted by In Emgrand, Geely Automobile, Industry News Tagged addition, answer, brand, business, car, Car Models, clutch, company, company executives, cost, decision, diesel, diesel engine, diesel engines, dislike, EC8, emgrand, end, engine, EV8, EX8, Gasoline, Geely, hatchback, level, LxWxH, manufacturer, mpv, October, offer, price, range, Receive, sedan, size, speed, suv, table, vehicle, wheelbase, year Comments 0

Shanghai-GM’s SPRINGO EV Pops up in Guangzhou

The first pure electric vehicle from a joint venture company…

Nov 26, 2012 Posted by In Guangzhou Auto Show, Shanghai GM Tagged acceleration, accelerator, addition, architecture, bar, Battery, beginning, benefit, boost, Buick, button, car, chassis, chevrolet, Chevrolet Sail, company, conjunction, curve, drive, driving, electric vehicle, electric vehicle architecture, Electric Vehicles, electrification, experience, gallery, Gasoline, gm, government, green, guangzhou, license, magnet, maintenance, middle, milestone, motor, network, partnership, PATAC, percent, Plate, Power, powertrain, president, product, production, propulsion, pursuit, RMB, SAIC, Sail, Sail SPRINGO, service, Shanghai, Shanghai GM, Shanghai government, speed, Sport, SPRINGO, stability, stabilizer, standing, start, steward, strategy, success, suspension, system, Thursday, torque, vehicle, vehicle warranty, venture, Warranty, Yongming Comments 2

BYD E6 Gains Chrome Wheels for Guangzhou Auto Show

BYD seems to be gaining strength, the Su Rui compact and the Si Rui mid size sedan were on show in Guangzhou with their nifty power 1.5T direct injection power plants and dual clutch gearboxes but the real star of the BYD line up is the BYD E6. The E6 debuted first as a taxi vehicle but then later came to the market as a personal model.

Nov 26, 2012 Posted by In BYD Auto, Guangzhou Auto Tagged auto, BYD, BYD E6, chrome, clutch, direct injection power plants, dual clutch gearboxes, E6, fleet, gallery, Gasoline, guangzhou, Guangzhou Auto Show BYD, Injection, issue, line, Market, model, personal model, Power, RMB, Rui, sedan, show, Si Rui, size, star, strength, Su Rui, taxi, taxi drivers, taxi fleet, vehicle, vehicles, Wheels Comments 0

GM’s SPRINGO Joins the China Bucket of Brands

SPRINGO, or rather Springo for those that don’t like to be shouted out is the new brand/model name for the Chevrolet Sail EV. The Sail was designed and developed in China for the Chinese market and other developing markets, South American markets have already been on the receiving end of the gasoline variant for several months now. The pure electric…

Nov 16, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Industry News Tagged auto, brand, brands, Bucket, car, charge, chevrolet, Chevrolet Sail, China, course, developing, electric Sail, end, gallery, Gasoline, gm, home, hour, Joins, kph, Market, model, name, outlet, range, Sail, Shots, show, South American markets, speed, SPRINGO, spy, strategy, teaser, the China Bucket of Brands SPRINGO, the Chinese market, time, variant, Week Comments 0

MG6 Diesel Test Reports Emerge from the UK

The UK automotive media have mostly loved the MG6 but consumers didn’t due to the lack of a diesel. That’s changed, MG now have a oil burning engine available for the MG6 with a 1.8 unit that pushes out 148bhp, for UK’ers that translates into just over 53mpg and 139g of Co2. The gasoline MG6 was a tough sell in the UK with just ‘dozens’ being sold every…

Nov 10, 2012 Posted by In Industry News, Nanjing MG Tagged auto, Auto Car, bhp, burning, car, class, consumption, diesel, diseasel, Emerge, engine, eye, fuel, Gasoline, Generous, info, lack, litre, lot, MG6, month, mpg, offer, oil, output, page, peak, Power, reason, Reports, review, rpm, sell, snippet, sterling, store, test, torque, trouble, UK, UK-designed, unit, Yesterday Comments 6

Cadillac’s Design Is Not The Issue, Its the Cadillac Package That’s All Wrong

Cadillac is far from catching up the likes of Audi and BMW in the Chinese market, but they might grow their current market share in the next few years if they play their cards right. According to a Reuters report filed yesterday, Cadillac just isn’t cool with Chinese consumers due to the use of sharp angular designs on show which goes against Chinese…

Nov 7, 2012 Posted by In Commentary, Industry News Tagged American, angular, ATS, Audi, autohome, automaker, Baijiu, basketball, bat, beacon, bhp, bmw, brand, business, Cadillac, cannot, Cant, car, cash, cellphone, challenge, China, Chinese, college, com, consumption, cost, course, CTS, cylinder, date, daughter, deal, delivery, Design, diagnosis, displacement, drink, engine, exterior, eyelid, fan, fuel, game, Gasoline, General, globalize, Group, Infiniti, Injection, issue, list, Long, Look, love, Luxury, Market, Merc, Mercedes, neglect, nothing, oil, owner, Package, par, part, pedigree, Power, prestige, problem, production, purchase, push, range, reliance, report, Reuters, rival, RMB, road, S-Class, sedan, segment, series, servicing, share, show, side, SLS, spending, SRX, Stealth, stereotype, Style, styling, suv, tea, team, term, Tigers, update, use, Volvo, waiting, way, world, XTS, Yesterday Comments 9

BYD Launches New Initiative to Get Electric Cabs Into the Market Place

Nov 6, 2012 Posted by In BYD Auto, Industry News Tagged amount, are, area, basis, buy, BYD, BYD Launches New Initiative, cabby, Cabs, car, chance, charging, China, circa, conjunction, contrast, cost, course, Day, E6, Electric, Electric Vehicles, electricity, energy, financing, fleet, fleet operators, fuel, fuel costs, Gasoline, goal, hand, hybrids, Initiative, Investment, Launches, liter, Market, model, month, New, New Energy, offer, period, place, plan, problem, reception, RMB, road, role, sell, service, servicing, Shenzhen, solution, spec, start, success, taxi, taxi drivers, taxi fleet, the Market Place BYD, unit, use, variant, vehicle, year Comments 3

JMC SUV Gets Updated with Ford’s 2.0T Ecoboost Technology

The JMC Qu Sheng SUV came about in partnership with Ford, the two companies have focused over the past few years on commercial vehicles which has now branched out into SUV’s. The Qu Sheng is not a strong seller, largely due to its high price when compared to better known Greatwall models, but the SUV has received strong reviews from Chinese media. The…

Nov 1, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged April, auto, commercial vehicles, diesel, Ecoboost engine, engine, Ford, Ford engine, gallery, Gasoline, gearbox, Greatwall, JMC, language, model, partnership, petrol, price, Qu Sheng, range, RMB, seller, Sheng, show, speed, spy, suv, technology, turbo, Updated, year Comments 0

Skoda Rapid Pops in China, Yeti and Fabia Wagon Expected Soon

Skoda…

Oct 26, 2012 Posted by In Skoda China, Spy Shots Tagged addition, answer, bulk, China, company, displacement, engine, Expected, Fabia Wagon, family, Gasoline, generation, Group, half, hatchback, Market, miro, platform, Polo, Pops, Power, Rapid, RMB, salary, Santana, sedan, segment, shape, Skoda, Skoda Rapid, speed, suv, taking, VAG, VW, Wagon, whilst, Yeti Comments 0

Black Cabs To See Competition from BYD’s E6 in London

Earlier today…

Oct 24, 2012 Posted by In BYD Auto, Industry News Tagged aim, air, batch, black, Boris Johnson, bus, BYD, Cabs, Chairman, Chairman Wang Chuanfu, charge, Chuanfu, city, company, competition, competitor, development, drivetrain, E6, Electric Vehicles, fleet, Gasoline, GreenTomotoCars, impact, London, Londoners, luggage, Mayor, Mayor of London, memorandum, minicab, News, number, part, place, product, quality, quarter, range, rear, room, See, tailpipe, taxi, today, transformation, understanding, visit, Wang, work, world, year Comments 0

Mercedes Dissapointed with China Sales

According to Chinese media reports Mercedes China will have a new boss come December, London born Nicholas Speeks will be taking over the top China job and has plenty of experience in running an Asian market after a number of years as the top man in Japan for Mercedes.

Mercedes Benz is apparently going through a period of adjustment at the top of…

Oct 15, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged adjustment, Association, attempt, Audi, automotive, Benz, bmw, boss, C-Class, career, changer, China, China Association of Automotive Manufacturers, Chinese media, company, course, cylinder, December, decrease, Dissapointed, E-Class, edge, engine, experience, FAW-Audi, front, game, Gap, Gasoline, GLK, Growth, history, image, increase, job, launch, line, mainland, Man, margin, Market, Mercedes, Mercedes China, Mercedes Dissapointed, Mercedes-Benz, model, month, New, number, par, percent, period, plenty, Post, price, pricing, product, promise, resume, RMB, sale, September, series, size, suv, talent, task, the, time, top, version, wash, Week, whilst, work, year Comments 4

Demand for Chinese cars makes exports surge

Chinese car brands may not have landed in the West, but they are encircling mature markets in developing countries where the demand for low cost cars is at an all time high, of course Chinese car manufacturers have been wise to step in to fill the demand.

Markets such as Brazil, Chile, Egypt and Turkey have been major overseas recipitants of Chinese…

Sep 8, 2011 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged anti, automotive exports, car, car brands, China, Chinese cars, Chinese manufacturers, Demand, Export, exports, Gasoline, half, home, joint venture companies, manufacturers, mature markets, period, West, whilst Comments 0

Why I still haven’t quite thrown the towel in on driving in China

Nearly a year ago I wrote a brief article on my frustration on driving in the People’s Republic, roads had become to clustered, too many new cars and equally new drivers…

Aug 23, 2011 Posted by Ash In Commentary Tagged amount, anger, area, article, bicycle, bike, bill, boy, breakfast, building, bullet, cannot, capacity, car, care, choice, city, commuter, cost, course, cut, Day, drive, Driver, ease, family, frustration, fuel, garage, Gasoline, government, hand, hiking, hour, house, infrastructure, insurance, Journey, June, kindergarten, life, maintenance, majority, Man, mass, medium, MINI, minute, month, morning, move, nature, office, ownership, Pace, part, peak, place, Republic, RMB, road, round, rush, security, sense, series, side, son, sort, spending, spitting, subway, sullen, time, towel, traffic, train, trip, way, Week, wife, work, year, Yesterday Comments 7

First renders of Foton’s K1 MPV surface

Foton are already one of the world’s biggest light truck manufacturer, but they are not content with sitting with just the title of truck manufacturer, they are planning to enter the passenger car business in a major way. Foton are owned by Beijing Auto Industry Corp and have a large amount of freedom within the gigantic corporation to develop their…

Aug 15, 2011 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged amount, auto, business, car, Corp, corporation, Cummins, diesel, displacement, engine, existence, foton, freedom, gallery, Gasoline, Industry, link, manufacturer, mpv, partner, Passenger, possibility, Power, product, surface, title, truck, venture, way, world Comments 4

The Greatest Small Car GM ever made â€“ 2012 Chevrolet Aveo (Sonic) in review

Aug 3, 2011 Posted by Ash In Chinese Car News Tagged ability, acceleration, adult, aircraft, appearance, Audi, automotive, Aveo, background, bhp, bit, blogger, body, brand, buffoon, buyer, car, car buyer, chevrolet, Chevrolet Aveo, China, China.GM, Concept, conclusion, control, cooperation, course, court, cruise, Cup, Daewoo, dash, dashboard, decade, deck, Design, drive, Driver, economy, engine, everyone, everything, evidence, exterior, face, Fact, favour, floor, friend, Gasoline, gearbox, gearstick, generation, gm, Greatest, handling, head, Idea, inch, introduction, Ital, jail, job, Korea, kph, lazier, leg, license, limit, line, Luxury, magician, majority, Market, Mercedes, mistake, mode, model, motor, motorway, name, nameplate, newspaper, notch, option, order, original, ownership, Paris, PATAC, personality, plastic, pleasure, plenty, pod, price, priest, quality, race, race car driver, range, record, review, role, rpm, S-Class, selling, show, small, something, Sonic, sort, space, Specification, speed, Style, suggestion, Suzhou, switch, tea, The Greatest Small Car GM, thing, time, tool, top, town, traction, traffic, turbo, version, voodoo, way, weave, winner, wizard, world, youth Comments 8

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

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

GM’s pick up truck hits the market in China

GM are famous for…

Jul 21, 2011 Posted by Ash In First Automobile Works Tagged anything, auto, automobile, Avalanches, bargain, big, bit, business, chevrolet, competition, construction, cost, cylinder, Demand, developing, diesel, engine, Fact, FAW-GM, Ford, fuel, Gasoline, hit, Logo, lumber, Market, nissan, offering, partnership, pick, POCV, product, Raptors, rate, RMB, segment, series, show, stop, surprise, time, truck, USD, variant, vehicle, village, Works Comments 1

The skeleton in the closet – Why I’m not bullish on the Chinese market

Chinese automotive consultants from both the West and China have gotten themselves into a circle jerk over the Chinese car industry sales. This year is heading for 18 million sales, and if you believe the optimists then next year will approach 25 million and the year after 35 million and companies will continue to operate on ever increasing profits…

Dec 10, 2010 Posted by FrankF In Commentary Tagged beijing, car, cars, Chinese food, circle, city, Gasoline, home, house, litre, network, parking, sales tax, Shanghai, skeleton, the Chinese market Comments 13