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Shanghai Volkswagen to Launch New Car Between Lavida and Passat

Chinese media are eagerly reporting on a new…

Dec 11, 2012 Posted by In Industry News, Spy Shots Tagged A-Plus, car, fastback, FAW-VW, ground, hatchback, joint ventures, launch, Lavida, MINI, model, nbsp, New, New Car, Passat, Passat CC, Passat Chinese media, Sagitar, sedan, segment, Shanghai, Shanghai Volkswagen, Shanghai VW, size, Style, suv, Tiguan, vehicle, Volkswagen, VW Jetta, VW Lavida, VW Sagitar Comments 1

Here’s your New Taxi – The 2013 Volkswagen Santana

The Guangzhou Auto Show gave us a chance to get up close with the new Santana. Volkswagen is using its tried and tested “Same sausage, different lengths” throughout its China models, from the Passat (US Passat) to the Magotan (Euro Passat) to the Sagitar (US Jetta) to the New Bora (China Bora), to the VW Lavida (China only) to the all new Jetta…

Nov 27, 2012 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged auto, chance, China, China Bora, China Jetta, choice, crowd, date, display, engines, Euro, gallery, Guangzhou auto show, Jetta, Lavida, leg, Magotan, nbsp, New, New Bora, new Jetta, New Santana, New Taxi, part, Passat, plan, platform, Polo, pricing, RMB, room, Sagitar, Santana, sausage, show, taxi, tier, top, upto, US Jetta, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Santana, VW Comments 3

We’re at the Guangzhou Auto Show

Expect major updates from tomorrow onwards.

What we’ve seen so far:

Very sweaty people – Why did the organizers choose not to turn on the AC on the first day? So many sweaty executives, PR people and journalists.
Taxi drivers complaining its cold – It’s 25 degrees in Guangzhou. Hot for the swarms of media that came in from…
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Nov 23, 2012 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged attendance, Audi, auto, bmw, Bora, brand, business, Chery, China JV, Club, Consumer, cool, couple, Day, executives, Fall, Fiat, floor, friend, ghost, grass, guangzhou, Guangzhou auto show, hairline, Hot, introduction, Japanese brands, JLR, Joint, Lavida, money, month, option, part, partner, Reely, Riich, run, Santana, Seriously, show, slide, stand, stride, sub, Subaru, sweaty executives, taxi, Thankfully, time, tomorrow, Toyota, tree, venture, Viaggio, Volvo, VW Santana Comments 6

Lavida Hatchback Dressed Up As a Skoda For Road Testing

It seems that when joint venture companies are left to their own devices to design, develop and produce cars for the Chinese market sales volume is sure to be had with a product that is able to capture the admiration and wallet of the local populace. See the VW Lavida for such an example, Wolfsburg apparently provided a platform and power train and…

Nov 15, 2012 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged admiration, box, brother, car, China, Design, Dressed, example, future, gallery, Golf, hatch, hatchback, issue, joint venture companies, last September, Lavida, Market, middle, model, month, nissan, number, platform, Polo, populace, popular cars, Power, product, sedan, sedean, September, Shanghai, Shanghai VW, Skoda, Skoda Fabia Wagon, Sportback, testing, the Chinese market sales, tiida, train, TSI, venture, volume, VW, wallet, Wolfsburg Comments 0

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…

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

VW Lavida Hatch Spy Shots Reveal Golf Contender

There used to be a British company that had multiple models that competed with each other throughout their product range, that company was called British Leyland. VW seems to be entering BL territory in China with its multitude of products that overlap and outright compete with each other, the Lavida is up against the Bora, the Passat against the Magotan….

May 15, 2012 Posted by In Shanghai VW, Spy Shots Tagged hatch, Lavida, Spy Shots, VW Comments 1

VW Lavida falls into corporate line

The VW Lavida is a self…

Apr 19, 2012 Posted by In Beijing Auto Show Tagged Beijing Auto Show, Lavida, VW Comments 0

VW working on developing the thinking man’s MG6

Aug 23, 2011 Posted by In Shanghai VW, Spy Shots Tagged auto, car, company, craze, Crossover, Design, engines, fastback, form, gas, hatchback, Lavida, Man, Market, mind, News, parent, parent company, plastic, Renders, Rover, Rover Streetwise, seater, sedan, show, Streetwise, surprise, suspension, thinking, today, TSI, vehicle, version, Volkswagen, way, year Comments 0

Honda Fit Sport Coming to China Soon

Several years ago the Honda Fit was the car to buy if you wanted a small car from a joint venture manufacturer, back in the old days the battle lines between joint venture companies and Chinese companies were quite clear, JV’s would make high end cars and Chinese would make cheap low end cars. Of course these lines have been rubbed into the dirt now,…

Aug 23, 2011 Posted by In Honda Automobile China, Spy Shots Tagged battle, beach, car, casualty, Chinese, competition, course, Day, dirt, end, Fiesta, Fit, Ford, gallery, head, honda, kind, Lavida, light, link, Livina, make, manufacturer, model, nissan, scene, Sport, swing, tiida, Toyota, venture, war, Yaris, year Comments 0

Chinaâ€™s July auto sales declined from a month earlier

China Association of Automobile Manufacturers announced the automobile output and sales figures for July on August 10^th. Chinaâ€™s auto output and sales in July hit 1,306,100 units and 1,275,300 units respectively, down 6.96% and 11.19% from a month earlier, up 1.26% and 2.18% from a year earlier. The auto output and sales in Jan-July…

Aug 15, 2011 Posted by SusanZhao In Industry News Tagged Association, August, auto, automobile, BAIC, brilliance, Buick, BYD, Camry, Chang, Chery, Citroen, Corolla, CR-V, Cruze, Dongfeng, Excelle, FAW, FAW Volkswagen, FAW-Toyota, Focus, Ford, gac, Geely, Guangqi, highlander, honda, Hover, Hyundai, Jan, Joyear, Lavida, list, month, MPVs, nissan, Odyssey, order, output, Passenger, period, Peugeot, Premacy, qashqai, rank, refine, SAIC, Sail, Senya, sequential, SUVs, Tiguan, Touran, Volkswagen, Xiali, 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

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…

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