Hyundai to Launch Facelift Tucson In Next Three Months

Selling two or more generation of cars has become the ultimate trick in the Chinese car sales handbook. VW sold a few dozen different Passat’s alongside each other, and still does, Mazda has multiple 6′s and Hyundai offer up three different Elantra’s and Buick has three Excelle’s. Now Hyundai are planning to keep the first generation around a little…

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Jan 29, 2013 Posted by FrankF In Beijing Hyundai, Spy Shots Tagged Beijing Hyundai, Elantra, Facelift Tucson, generation, Hyundai, Hyundai SUV, mazda, Passat, the Chinese market, the first generation, VW Comments 0

BYD G5/Su Rui Sales Jump Over 10,000 Units

The BYD Su Rui Sedan seems to be BYD’s game changing vehicle, the Su Rui was unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in April this year and launched shortly afterwards with pricing starting at 80,000RMB and topping out at around 120,000RMB. The Su Rui has now become known as the BYD G5 for overseas markets and will soon be exported out of China. In the meantime,…

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Dec 10, 2012 Posted by administrator In BYD Auto, Industry News Tagged April, auto, board, boy, brand, BYD, China, Cites, clutch, company, cost, customer, date, direction, driving, dual clutch gearbox, Focus, G5, game, gearbox, generation, health, home, hybrid, indicator, Industry, Injection, jump, meantime, November, perception, Post, pricing, Qin, quality, range, RMB, Rui, Rui Sedan, sedan, show, start, step, Su Rui, suv, tech, technology, torque, vehicle, year Comments 4

Baojun SUV heading to China Soon

The Baojun brand is made up of two vehicles, the 630…

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Dec 6, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Chinese Car News Tagged baojun, basis, brand, Buick, buy, Captiva, car, chevrolet, Chevrolet Captiva, China, compact, Crossover, Excelle, generation, gm, hand, hatchback, line, model, platform, production, range, rebirth, rumor, sedan, Spark, speed, suv, tech, territory, the old Chevrolet Spark, vehicle Comments 0

BYD’s Qin Hybrid Spied – 316BHP and 440Nm of Torque

The BYD Qin Hybrid is an entirely new hybrid from the makers of the original BYD F3 DM, the Qin was aired in concept form at the Beijing Auto Show in April where it was well received by media and consumers, however the real focus of that auto show was on the Su Rui sedan, the donor vehicle for the Qin’s electric hybrid engine. The F3DM was criticized…

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Dec 5, 2012 Posted by In BYD Auto, Spy Shots Tagged April, auto, auto-show, bhp, BYD, BYD F3 DM, BYD Qin Hybrid, car, circa, clutch, Concept, donor, dual clutch gearbox, Electric, engine, Focus, form, gallery, garage, gearbox, generation, half, hybrid, Hybrid Electric Vehicle, hybrid engine, kph, link, Market, output, Plug, Power, pricing, Qin, quality, RMB, Rui, sedan, show, Spied, Su Rui, torque, Toyota, train, USD, vehicle Comments 7

VW Santana Set For Launch on Dec 16

The VW Santana is set to launch on December 16th this…

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Dec 4, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged area, auto, box, buy, Chinese media, circa, city, Dec, December, generation, generation model, Guangzhou auto show, launch, Market, media reports, model, month, New, New Santana, on Dec 16, on December 16th, party, Power, rear, RMB, Santana, sedan, set, show, tier, time, VW, VW Santana Comments 0

BAIC New SUV Concept Channels Next Generation Defender

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Dec 3, 2012 Posted by In Industry News, Spy Shots Tagged are, auto, BAIC, Beijing Jeep, Channels, China, Concept, copy, cost, Defender, Design, Dimensions, engine, favor, form, generation, Information, Jeep, Land, Land Rover Defender, Market, model, need, New, Next, Next Generation Defender BAIC, nothing, range, Rover, Santana, self, service, sight, Sino, Soviet, split, suv, town, tractor, uprising, vehicle, Western China, Zhan, Zhan Qi Comments 2

First Vehicle from Chang’an-Ford Sub Brand is the….

… Old Ford Focus.

A sub brand from Ford in China…

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Nov 27, 2012 Posted by In Chang'an Ford, Spy Shots Tagged an, brand, car, Chang, China, cost, DCT, engine, Excellence, Focus, Ford, Ford Focus, gallery, gearbox, generation, Jia Yue, line, MINI, model, name, nothing, Old, range, sub, This, time, vehicle Comments 0

Chery Running Short of Cash, Plans to Kill The Kids.

Reuters automotive reports Fang Yan and Kazunori Takada have dished out the dirt on Chery and their loss making ways. The two reporters discovered that Chery is essentially being kept…

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Nov 20, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Chery Automobile, Commentary, Industry News Tagged ATECO, auto, Beijing-based, brand, bread, building, butter, car, cash, Chairman, Chery, Chevy, China Lianhe Credit Rating Co, company, competition, confidence, copy, cost, Cowin, Credit, dealership, diesel, differentiation, dirt, displacement, duel, emgrand, energy, engine, example, Fang Yan, fuel, Fulwin, Geely, General, generation, government, government subsidies, hatchback, hit, Huang, Huaqiong, incentive, Investment, Ipsos, Kazunori, Kids, Lianhe, loss, Market, model, models, moment, money, month, mpv, nbsp, need, October, performance, product, production, profit, QQ, range, Rating, Red, Reely, Rely, report, research, Reuters, right, Riich, RMB, runner, sedan, September, series, situation, something, Spark, Spokesman, state, strategy, sub, suv, Takada, tax, TDI, technology, tiggo, time, turbo, visit, year, yuan Comments 8

VW Golf 7 Caught Naked in China

The VW Golf has been a major hit in the Chinese market, VW followed it up with the introduction of the GTI as a locally made model and also imported the wagon, crossover and R Series models to satisfy Chinese appetite for the hatchback model. The 7th generation Golf has been a headline inducing topic for the past few months, questions about when it…

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Nov 19, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Spy Shots Tagged 7th Generation, appetite, Audi, Caught, China, China The VW Golf, choice, Crossover, engine, Foshan, gallery, gen, generation, Golf, GTI, hatchback, headline, hit, introduction, June, June 2013, life, major, Market, model, models, MQB, Naked, News, part, platform, plenty, PRC, production, Series models, share, spy, the Chinese market, topic, TSI, VW, VW Golf, Wagon Comments 4

Top Selling Cars in October 2012. Hyundai Elantra is China’s Favorite Car.

Its been another good month for car manufacturers, as normal the usual faces are making it into the top 10 passenger cars but the addition of the latest Hyundai Elantra is an interesting one. A revised fifth generation Elantra was only just launched in China, the Lang Dong was aired at the Beijing Auto Show in April and seems to be gathering speed with…

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Nov 12, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Industry News Tagged addition, April, auto, Bora, Buick, car, car manufacturers, chevrolet, Chevrolet Cruze, China, Cruze, Dong, Elantra, Exelle, favorite, fifth generation Elantra, gathering, gen, generation, Hyundai, hyundai elantra, Lang, Lang Dong, Lavida, month, October, October 2012, Passat, Passenger, passenger cars, production, Sagitar, Sail, sale, selling, show, speed, top, Top Selling Cars, VW Bora, VW Jetta, VW Passat Comments 0

Refreshed 2013 Subaru Forester Heading to Guangzhou Auto Show

Subaru’s all new…

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Nov 9, 2012 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged auto, Baby, baby brother, body, brother, Chinese consumers, Chinese media, CVT, exterior, gearbox, generation, Guangzhou auto show, Guangzhou Auto Show Subaru, Interior, model, month, nbsp, Refreshed, show, speed, Subaru, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, the Forester, The new Forester 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…

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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

China Sub Brand Sales To Date

Just How Are Sub Brands Performing in China?

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Nov 5, 2012 Posted by In Commentary, Industry News Tagged access, agreement, amp, anything, badge, bang, baojun, blink, brand, brands, campaign, car, cause, China, CIIMO, civic, combo, competition, concern, date, dealership, dispute, end, Everus, experience, face, Fit, generation, gm, government, honda, Idea, ink, international brands, introduction, IPR, July, King, lack, launch, line, local brands, manufacturer, manufacturers, Market, market access, Marketing, MINI, month, mother, network, nissan, partner, production, PSA, race, range, reality, return, road, rubber, sedan, September, show, side, slow, solution, spat, stamp, sub, Subaru, swing, technology, technology idea, territorial, the Chinese market, tiida, time, traffic, Venucia, version, visitor, way, whilst, Wuling, year Comments 3

Last Gen Mazda 3 Becomes the Changa CINTURX

The Chinese market has some howler brand names, we can point at Roewe, Besturn, Venucia, Ciimo, Everus and now we can welcome CINTURX to the party.

Ford and Mazda produce a wide range of vehicles with Chang’an, but with increased attention on the Chinese market by both companies has lead to greater technology cooperation between the three way tie…

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Nov 1, 2012 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged announcement, attention, baojun, Becomes, Besturn, brand, brand names, car, Chang, Changa, CIIMO, CINTURX, cooperation, engine, Everus, Focus, Ford, gallery, generation, hell, howler, introduction, Market, matter, mazda, model, number, offer, ownership, partner, party, Question, range, rebrand, Roewe, start, sub, tax, tech, technology, the, tie, vehicle, Venucia, version, way, whilst Comments 6

Beijing C70G to Launch in December, Three Engines on Offer Including 250BHP 2.3Turbo

Saab maybe an entry in the automotive history book but the brand sort of lives on in Beijing, when Beijing Auto bought the rights to the last generation 93 and 95 as well as the engines.

Although the C70G is based on Saab architecture it looks nothing like a Saab, its side has more of a BMW Bangle wrinkle…

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Oct 30, 2012 Posted by In Beijing Auto, Spy Shots Tagged architecture, auto, automotive history book, Bangle, beijing, beijing auto, bhp, bmw, book, box, brand, car, choice, Country, Day, December, end, engines, entry, executive, Flagship, gallery, Gear, generation, government, high, hint, history, Hong, Including, launch, link, Mercedes, nation, new Saab, nothing, offer, partner, potential, pricing, pride, rise, RMB, Saab, side, something, sort, speed, tech, turbo, upto, whilst, wrinkle Comments 1

JAC Eagle II Details Surface: 2.0T and a Nice Design

JAC have…

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Oct 30, 2012 Posted by In JAC Motors, Spy Shots Tagged auto, bhp, body, business, car, Chery, Chinese, company, December, Design, Details, Eagle, engine, foothold, frame, Geely, generation, ground, Hyundai, jac, JAC Eagle II Details Surface, Market, model, monopoly, Nice, Nice Design JAC, Passenger, pricing, production, Rei Feng MPV, RMB, Sante, self, structure, surface, time, torque, whilst Comments 2

And On This Day, October 30th 2012, A New Santana Was Born

China loves the Santana. The car was first introduced in 1984 and claims the title as the first passenger car made in China, of course the Jeep Cherokee made it a few months earlier but claimed the crown as the first foreign vehicle made in China. The partnership between Shanghai Auto and Volkswagen bloomed from a tiny few hundred units per year into…

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Oct 30, 2012 Posted by In Industry News, Volkswagen Group China Tagged auto, brand, car, change, Cherokee, chevrolet, China, choice, Country, course, crown, date, Day, December, economy, end, engine, figurehead, gallery, Gear, generation, government, hand, Heaven, highway, house, Industry, Jeep, launch, length, link, LxWxH, Market, metal, model, models, monopoly, nbsp, New, New Santana, nissan, October, offer, opening, partnership, Passenger, passenger car, platform, Polo, Power, production, put, QingYin, Rapid, Reform, RMB, Sail, Santana, semi, Shanghai Auto, share, Skoda, specimine, speed, state, time, title, today, TSI, vehicle, Vista, Volkswagen, way, weekend, wheelbase, year Comments 2

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

Skoda…

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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

Introducing Mr. Ferrari

Imagine owning a Ferrari, only its 1992 and its the first Ferrari in China. Mr. Li…

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Oct 18, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged age, airport, bid, bike, brand, British, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Bush, business, car, childhood, China, Chinese, class, click, Communism, compound, control, countryside, course, crackdown, danwei, dream, egalitarian, endeavour, era, Factory, fame, father, Ferrari, Ferrari owner, figure, gaige, generation, getihu, goal, Horse, housing, Imeni, jump, kaifang, labour, leader, Lenin, Li Xiao Hua, Li Xiaohua, license, lot, magazine, Man, Mao, marble, model, Molotova, moment, official, Online, opening, owner, palace, philanthropist, Plate, Prancing, Presidents, reading, Red, Reform, Reminiscing, Renminbi, rest, RMB, scarcity, sea, security, self, show, showcase, Society, son, stability, Stalin, story, success, succession, symbol, time, tycoon, unit, villa, Volga, wave, work, world, xiahai, year, yuan, Zavod, Zim, Zis Comments 0

Mitsubishi Quietly Produces the ASX in China

The ASX has very quietly been produced in Changsha earlier this week, the compact SUV is the first product from the joint venture between Guangzhou Auto and Mitsubishi and came after Guangzhou took over Changsha Auto who originally had the JV with Mitsubishi.

The ASX comes with a 1.6L and a 2.0L engine with both 5 speed manual and CVT gearboxes…

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Oct 16, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged ASX, auto, beijing auto, car, changsha, Changsha Auto, China, circa, closure, company, course, CVT, deal, engine, entry, entry level models, generation, guangzhou, Guangzhou Auto, level, licensing, Market, Mitsubishi, Outlander, potential, pricing, Produces, product, Quietly, RMB, SouEast, spat, speed, suv, venture, Week Comments 0

Next Generation Land Rover DC100 Pops Up Via the Chinese Patent Office

Jaguar Land Rover have big plans for China thanks to their new JV with Chery, the Indian owned British company has had a fantastic record in the past four years of making cars that consumers actually want rather than making cars that it thinks the consumer wants, we only have to look at the success of the Jaguar XF, XJ and Range Rover Evoque in the…

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Oct 10, 2012 Posted by In Jaguar-Landrover China, Spy Shots Tagged auto, car, Changshu, Chery, China, Chinese, Chinese Patent Office Jaguar Land Rover, circa, com, company, Consumer, consumption, Defender, due, Evoque, February, fuel, gallery, generation, home, info, Information, internet, Jaguar XF, JLR, Land, Land Rover Defender, Luxury, Market, model, Next, office, patent, perculiar, Pops, price, production, project, range, Range Rover Evoque, reason, record, Rover, site, Sohu, story, success, Via, way, West, wheelbase, XJ, year Comments 0

Lifan 720 and next generation 520 to launch in Guangzhou

Next Generation 520

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Sep 13, 2011 Posted by In Lifan Tagged area, auto, car, China Car Timesso, Concept, end, generation, guangzhou, Guangzhou auto show, hatchback, launch, Lifan, model, production, Shanghai Auto Show Comments 0

FAW’s B90 Sedan to launch in early 2012

The B90 has been on the front page of China Car Times on multiple occasions this past month and we are still no closer to understanding what underpins the B90, rumor has it that the B90 is riding on the last generation of Mazda6 that FAW inherited from its partner, FAW shortened the platform for use within the B50 sedan and used it for the B70 sedan…

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Aug 29, 2011 Posted by In Besturn, Spy Shots Tagged auto, B90, car, China, engine, FAW, figure, form, gallery, generation, link, mazda, month, page, partner, platform, Power, pricing, RMB, rumor, sedan, Times, understanding, use Comments 1

Hong Qi’s HQE/C131 not consigned to the scrap heap just yet

Obama has his Beast and Chairman Hu has his HQE which he used to review the troops in Beijing in late 2009. The HQE was designed to…

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Aug 22, 2011 Posted by In Hong Qi Red Flag, Spy Shots Tagged Audi, Beast, brand, Capital, car, carry, coach, course, Demand, elevation, end, engine, FAW, flag, future, gallery, generation, heap, Hong, HQE, label, link, Logo, Luxury, motor, News, Obama, platform, Positioning, Prado, product, radar, RMB, scrap, sedan, segment, self, time, tone, top, Toyota, will Comments 0

Next generation Peugeot 308 ready to roll

The Chinese market is a strange place for Peugeot, they roll the old with the new and hope it works – see the odd Pug 207 at the bottom of the ladder that’s rocking a 208 face but is actually a 207, then there’s the saloon version, and on top of that there is the Peugeot 408 which is just a stretched 307 and now there is there 508. Confused? You should…

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Aug 22, 2011 Posted by FrankF In Spy Shots Tagged Begger, bottom, Chinese, Confused, Dongfeng, edition, end, face, gallery, generation, Joint, ladder, link, Market, Peugeot, place, Pug, saloon, seller, September, testing, tooth, top, venture, version Comments 2

One Market – Two Camry’s

China is big on its one…

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Aug 19, 2011 Posted by FrankF In Industry News, Toyota China Tagged answer, auto, board, Camry, car, civic, Classical, Country, course, dealership, Design, ethos, eye, field, floor, future, generation, honda, Market, mazda, moment, News, Passat, plenty, price, production, relationship, sale, space, the, Toyota, whilst Comments 0

Toyota to launch Mark X ZiO in China

Toyota have already launched the latest generation of the Mark X into China, where it is more commonly known as the Toyota Reiz. The 2.5V6 RWD sedan is priced in the low 200,000rmb area which makes it very affordable and highly competitive against other sedans such as the Buick Regal and Skoda Octavia VRS. The Reiz became a popular alternative to mainstream…

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Aug 19, 2011 Posted by In Spy Shots, Toyota China Tagged alternative, amount, area, Buick, car, count, course, drive, FAW-Toyota, gallery, generation, internet, link, mainstream, Market, model, mover, name, office, patent, pictures, powerplant, Regal, Reiz, RMB, RWD, sedan, share, Skoda, time, Toyota, venture, wheel Comments 0

Next Generation Lexus GS spotted in China

Big cars are big business in China, ask Audi about their A6 sales in China and you wont get an answer, just a big grin. Big car sales equal big profits, and this is the market that the GS is aiming for. The GS will be squaring up against Germany’s finest in the Chinese market, the A6, 5-Series and E-Class should be afraid of the GS when it hits the…

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Aug 16, 2011 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged answer, Audi, AWD, big, business, car, E-Class, first, gallery, generation, grin, Lexus, link, Market, mode, model, mystery, Next, part, plan, Power, redesign, RWD, series, shot, spy, styling, User, wont, year Comments 1

Next Generation Ford Focus Hatch Sighted in China

The Ford Focus has become the yard stick for middle class life in China, and as a result it has become one of the best selling cars in the Chinese market with monthly sales often breaking the 10,000 units barrier on a regular basis. The next generation of Focus has already hit the markets in Western Europe and America, but China seems to be one of the…

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Aug 12, 2011 Posted by In Chang'an Ford, Industry News Tagged barrier, basis, class, course, engine, Focus, Ford, gallery, generation, hatch, life, link, Market, Next, nothing, picture, result, Sighted, stick, time, version, yard Comments 0

Next generation CRV slightly naked in China

When Janet Jackson had her minor nip slip at the Superbowl a few years back the American public went wild, but will they go wild for the new CRV? Of course official renderings have already been released of the popular compact SUV, but this is the first time that a production model has been spied in the wild with its new interestingly styled grill alongside…

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Aug 11, 2011 Posted by FrankF In Guangzhou Honda, Spy Shots Tagged attention, auto, car, Chinese, clearest, course, CRV, dashboard, engine, Fact, Fall, gallery, gearbox, generation, link, Look, Market, model, month, nip, place, production, slip, speed, Superbowl, surprise, suv, time, V-Tech, version, wont, year Comments 0

Next Gen Roewe 750 spotted yet again

SAIC are not very good at keeping their new cars a secret, unless of course they like to keep the word about their next generation cars alive in the media. The 750 is based on GM’s Epsilon II platform which is shared with the Buick Lacrosse and the Regal in the Chinese and also world markets.

The next generation…

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Aug 10, 2011 Posted by In Industry News Tagged auto, bhp, Buick, Concept, course, engine, Epsilon, form, gallery, generation, Insignia, Lacrosse, line, link, Next, November, platform, Power, Regal, SAIC, secret, self, show, word, world, year Comments 2

The Greatest Small Car GM ever made – 2012 Chevrolet Aveo (Sonic) in review

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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

Changhe Suzuki working on new SUV, the WagonR by another name

The WagonR has had a sad life in China, whilst other markets moved onto the much more handsome generation the WagonR struggled on in first generation form with Changhe-Suzuki giving it a sad mid life make over which really didn’t do it too many favors. However, for some reason rural consumers seem to enjoy the WagonR so it has yet to be retired from…

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Aug 3, 2011 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged addition, Changhe, Changhe Suzuki, Crossover, first generation, form, gallery, generation, handsome generation, life, link, make, Market, name, reason, retirement, suspension, suv, treatment, WagonR, whilst Comments 2

Next generation Ford Focus sedan sighted in China

For Ford, the Focus is quite simply its bread and butter car and without it Ford would be in a much dire a situation in the Chinese market. The Focus sells in excess of 10,000 units per month on a regular basis and has become the go to car for any budding middle class Chinese consumer that wants a new car at around the 100,000rmb area. The next generation…

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Jul 29, 2011 Posted by In Chang'an Ford, Spy Shots Tagged area, basis, bread, butter, car, China, Chinese media, class, Consumer, engine, excess, Factory, Focus, Ford, Ford-speak, gallery, GDI, generation, Injection, link, Market, month, Next generation Ford Focus, Online, RMB, sedan, situation, the Chinese market, time, unit Comments 1

Subaru XV revealed via patent office leak

The Subaru XV will be produced in China via the still unofficially announced joint venture between Subaru and Chery in 2012 and should sit under the Forester in terms of product placement according to media reports. Chinese consumers have already seen the XV in concept form at the Shanghai Auto Show earlier this year where it gained center stage on…

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Jul 27, 2011 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged anything, auto, car, center, Chery, Concept, Crossover, date, Design, displacement, engines, form, gallery, generation, guesswork, Impreza, launch, leak, link, Market, office, patent, placement, pricing, product, RMB, sale, show, stage, stand, styling, Subaru, turbo, venture, version, year Comments 1

Roewe W5 to launch in August

The…

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Jul 20, 2011 Posted by In Roewe Tagged ability, airing, August, auto, brand, choice, direction, engine, generation, July, majority, Market, MG-Rover, model, offroad, Power, production, Roewe, SAIC, series, show, something, suv, testing, thrashing, unit, year Comments 1

Shanghai-VW sales increase by 0.6% to 530,000 units

Shanghai VW has finally released its half year sales figures which show the company sold 88,564 units in June and sold an impressive 527,000 units in the first half of the year.

Shanghai made Volkswagen models accounted for 71,066 of sales and sold 428044 over the first half of the year, an increase of 17.7% over the same period in 2010, the Passat…

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Jul 20, 2011 Posted by In Industry News Tagged book, company, control, door, generation, half, increase, June, Lavida, model, month, mpv, order, Passat, period, Polo, sale, Santana, segment, sellinf, Shanghai, Skoda, Superb, suv, Tiguan, Touran, Volkswagen, whilst, winner, year Comments 0

Next generation Roewe 750 seen again

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Jul 20, 2011 Posted by In Roewe, Spy Shots Tagged auto, bow, Concept, course, end, Epsillon, form, generation, Market, platform, Roewe, Saab, sedan, shot, show, suv Comments 0

Chevrolet ready to cash in on Transformers mayhem

Transformers was one of the first foreign cartoons to enter China in the mid 1980’s and subsequently hooked a generation of men on the never ending battles between Decepticons and the Autobots. Of course, Transformers fell from the TV screens in the early 90’s but made it back to the big screen in 2008 when the first Transformers movie…

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Jul 19, 2011 Posted by In Industry News Tagged Autobot-bling, Autobots, bhp, Buick, Bumblebee, Camaro, chevrolet, course, Cruze, Decepticons, edition, engine, Excelle, franchise, gallery, generation, hood, instalment, launch, Market, mayhem, merchandise, month, movie, non, Power, RMB, screen, splash, time, turbo Comments 5