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Chinese Dealers Ready to Drop Japanese Brands?

According to the SMCP, some Chinese car dealers are ready to drop their Chinese brands and move over to other ‘safe brands’, but what exactly is a safe brand in China? With mob mentality at an all time high its easy for Korean, French, German or American brands to ‘Upset the feelings of the Chinese peoples‘. French supermarket chain, Carrefour,…

Dec 10, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Industry News Tagged 2008 Olympic torch relay, aggression, AlixPartners, American acts, American brands, anger, Association, automobile, bet, brand, brands, bulk, business, car, car dealers, Carrefour, chain, China, Chinese consumers, Chinese fishermen, Chinese media, Citroen, city, Corp, cost, Dealers, Demand, Diao, director, dispute, drop, Economic, Expansion, face, Failing, family, femine, fine, fish, Foreign, future, General, grocery, Hyundai, issue, Italy, Japanese, Japanese brands, kiosk, Korean waters, leg, line, Mao, Marketing, matter, mentality, Military, mob, mob mentality, money, motor, move, nissan, number, office, Olympic, person, persuasion, plan, pride, Ready to Drop Japanese Brands, relay, Shanghai-based, shop, showroom, SMCP, spat, strategy, Subaru, supermarket, term, territorial, the China Automobile Dealers Association, the Chinese peoples, Tibetan, time, torch, Toyota, traffic, vandalise, Volkswagen, William Chen, wing, wont, wry Comments 2

Honda Sales Slide Continues Into November, But Showing Return to Regular Figures

The diplomatic fall out and consumer backlash against Japanese products continued into November with Honda announcing that sales were down in China 29% in year on year figures.

Although the figures are down, it seems that the situation is slowly improving as October’s sales were down nearly 50% in October.In November 2012 Honda sold 41,205 cars in…

Dec 5, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged backlash, car, charm, China, Consumer, consumer backlash, Continues, drop, Fall, frame, honda, Honda Sales, January, Japanese cars, Japanese products, nbsp, November, November 2011, November 2012, October, return, sales, situation, slide, time, waiting, year Comments 1

VW Santana Set For Launch on Dec 16

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

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

China is a Nation of Red Light Jumpers

Chinese drivers like jumping red lights according to this report from Xinhua. In my own experience, with at least a decade on Chinese roads, Chinese drivers are jumping red lights because others are busy jumping…

Dec 3, 2012 Posted by In Culture, Industry News Tagged 2012, area, attention, behavior, China, city, Country, Daily, danger, Day, Dec, Dec. 2, decade, division, drive, education, end, engineering, event, experience, interchange, January, Jumpers, lack, license, License Plates, light, Management, mentality, Ministry, minyi, minyi.net.cn, nation, number, October, Online, order, part, penalty, percent, point, professor, public, reason, Red, red lights, report, road, road safety, safety, security, Shanghai-based, sight, Sunday, Survey, system, telephone, the Ministry of Public Security and China Youth Daily, time, timing, tongji, traffic, traffic lights, traffic management, University, Week, Xinhua, year, youth Comments 2

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

Nissan Leaf Becomes a Venucia

Almost all sub brands from joint venture manufacturers are expected…

Nov 30, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Guangzhou Auto Show Tagged brand, car, electric models, Electric Vehicles, end, government, introduction, joint venture manufacturers, length, line, LxWxH, nbsp, network, nissan, Nissan dealerships, Nissan Leaf, none, range, review, sedan, sub, testing, the, the Leaf, tiida, time, vehicle, Vencuia, venture, Venucia, volume, wheelbase Comments 2

FAW-VW Extends Joint Venture Ahead of Time, IPR issues Swept Away

FAW-VW have announced the extension of the joint venture between the two companies ahead of time. The original agreement was due to expire in 2016 but as a show of confidence in the joint venture both Volkswagen and First Automobile Works hammered out a new deal at the recent FAW-Volkswagen advisory board meeting in Foshan, China.

The talks also…

Nov 29, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged agreement, Ahead, Audi, automobile, board, China, confidence, cooperation, copying, deal, engine, Extends, extension, FAW, FAW Group, FAW Volkswagen, FAW-VW, Foshan, foundation, framework, gearbox, Golf, Group, infringement, IPR, IPR infringement, issue, Joint, Magotan, Market, meeting, partnership, PRC, president, press, range, release, respect, show, side, success, Swept, technology, the joint venture, time, trust, venture, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Group, VW, Works, Xu Jianyi, year Comments 1

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

… Old Ford Focus.

A sub brand from Ford in China…

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

Toyota Venza Has Chinese Premier, One Step Closer to Local Production

The Toyota…

Nov 27, 2012 Posted by In Guangzhou Auto Show Tagged auto, AWD, China, Chinese, Chinese consumer, Chinese Premier, Consumer, gray market, guangzhou, Guangzhou auto show, Guangzhou Toyota, interest, line, Market, nothing, number, partnership, Positioning, Premier, pricing, production, province, RAV, RMB, road, show, step, term, the Chinese market, time, top, Toyota, Toyota Venza, venture, Venza Comments 0

Toyota Presents Tree to Chinese People, Changes Name From ‘Toyota China’ to ‘China Toyota’

Nov 27, 2012 Posted by In Guangzhou Auto Show, Toyota China Tagged aligncenter, amp, attachment, auto, caption, car, change, China, China Toyota, Concept, Daily, Day, degree, Diao, executive, first, friend, goal, grass, heat, Incident, Industry, manufacturer, Market, middle, morning, name, October, Presents, production, Qin, Qing, redemption, road, September, show, Shuang, source, spat, stage, stand, standing, strategy, sub, suv, Tian, time, Toyota, Toyota China, Toyota executives, tree, way, width, world, year Comments 0

Honda NSX Concept Appears in Guangzhou Auto Show

The Honda NSX aired for the first time in China at the Guangzhou Auto Show, although Japanese brands were suffering from political fall out from the Sino-Japanese island spat back in September Acura did not fail in their mission to draw crowds to their stand. Whilst the rest of the Acura range could be considered questionable, the NSX Concept is clearly…

Nov 24, 2012 Posted by In Guangzhou Auto Show, Industry News Tagged Acura, Appears, auto, car, Concept, Fall, Guangzhou auto show, halo, honda, Honda NSX, island, Japanese brands, mission, name, NSX, Plate, range, rest, September, show, Sino, Sino-Japanese, spat, stand, time, whilst Comments 1

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

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…

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

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

Sichuan Yema’s Electric Audi A4 Taxi Shows its Face

Sichuan…

Nov 15, 2012 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged Audi, Audi A4, Austin Maestro, auto, auto range, automaker, car, drivetrain, Electric, electric motor, face, Face Sichuan Yema, future, gallery, goods vehicles, Maestro, motor, nbsp, platform, plucky, Power, production, Question, range, Restrictions, series, service, service taxi, sichuan, Sichuan Yema, suv, taxi, time, Wagon, wheelbase, yema Comments 1

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

BYD’s Mystery 6B Sedan Comes to the BYD Si Rui

BYD’s Su Rui sedan has a cousin in the BYD Si Rui. The name is similar, and the exterior looks similar too, so what are the differences? We’re not entirely clear if this model is placed above the Si Rui or below it either, but we can tell you that like the Su Rui it is packed with technology. A 12.1 inch screen is the obvious focal point in the center…

Nov 12, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged ASX, auto, bed, BYD, BYD Si Rui, BYD Si Rui BYD, car, center, circa, cousin, dashboard, DCT, drive, engine, exterior, Fiat, gallery, gearbox, inch, Mitsubishi, model, month, music, mystery, name, News, par, party, point, Positioning, Powered, production, RMB, road, Rui, screen, sedan, show, Si Rui, speed, Su Rui, technology, time, unit, update, upto, vehicle, Viaggio Comments 1

BMW 3-Series GT Road Testing in China

Audi, BMW and Mercedes are battling it out for the Chinese…

Nov 12, 2012 Posted by In BMW China, Spy Shots Tagged Audi, base, bmw, China, China Audi, Consumer, entry, form, future, GT Road Testing, hump, introduction, launch, line, Market, market entry, market plans, Mercedes, PRC, Question, road, sale, series, testing, time, version, way, wheel, wheelbase Comments 2

NSFW: Guiyang City Auto Show Comes Up With Winning Combination to Boost Visitor Numbers

City level auto shows have a tough time in boosting their visitor numbers, of course cars maybe a hot topic in China but auto shows seem to have been done to death. At the local level like Guiyang, auto shows are operated and run by the local dealerships, so how can you get national level coverage in competition with Shanghai and Beijing? You can try…

Nov 9, 2012 Posted by In Culture Tagged ante, attention, auto, auto shows, auto-show, breast, combination, competition, course, coverage, death, fine, Forum, gallery, Guiyang, Guiyang City Auto Show, hair, hot topic, jackpot, leader, level, meeting, method, Ministries, move, mustard, NSFW, painting, performance, Propaganda, scale, shot, show, stage, swap, thing, time, topic, visitor, Visitor Numbers, Visitor Numbers City level Comments 1

Ford China Sales Increase 48% in October

Ford has had its second record month according to figures released by Ford Shanghai. The Ford Focus range continues to be the driving force behind the companies new found sales record of 60,518 vehicles, up 48% in year on year comparisons, increasing sales by 14% this year.

Together with our partners, we are delighted the Ford Focus has been the…

Nov 7, 2012 Posted by In Chang'an Ford, Industry News Tagged capacity, CEO, Chairman, China, commercial vehicle, contracting, corporation, date, Dave Schoch, Ecosport, Expansion, family, Focus, force, Ford, Ford China, Ford Focus, Ford Shanghai, fuel, fun, Investment, JiangLing, Jiangling Motors Corporation, JMC, Kuga, Market, month, nameplate, October, October Ford, Pacific, percent, production, quality, range, record, safe, segment, Shanghai, spite, suv, SUVs, time, vehicle, wholesale vehicles, year Comments 0

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

Joint Venture contracts and the example of BMW Brilliance

Western companies moving into China usually did so through equity joint ventures, which were the predominant entry mode at least until Chinaâ€™s entry into the WTO in 2001 (Kasperk et al. 2011). This entry mode also facilitates the development of personal relationships or ‘guanxi‘ which is of great importance in conducting business in…

Nov 7, 2012 Posted by Ralf Drauz In BMW China, Featured, Industry News Tagged accordance, addition, approach, automotive, basis, BBA, benchmark, bmw, board, branch, brilliance, budget, business, Capital, car, case, Chinese, company, competitiveness, connection, content, contract, contribution, creation, development, deviation, difference, director, distribution, Drauz, Economic, engine, English, entry, equity, establishment, Euro, Euros, example, Foreign, government, guanxi, Herein, Holding, Holdings, importance, increase, Industry, Investment, jinbei, Joint, Kasperk, law, Limited, Logo, Look, loss, Management, manager, Market, May, mode, nature, number, option, party, Passenger, percent, performa, period, plan, Plant, possibility, predominant, premise, presence, production, profit, purpose, quality, Republic, return, risk, RMB, scope, series, Sino, stake, start, structure, subsidiary, technology, time, Times, today, total, transfer, usage, use, value, variant, venture, wheelbase, WTO, year Comments 0

China Sub Brand Sales To Date

Just How Are Sub Brands Performing in China?

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

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

JAC have…

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…

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

Beijinger’s Not Happy With Plans To Ease Congestion

During the 2008 Olympics Beijing Drivers were asked to toggle their driving based on their license plate numbers with plates ending in odd or even no’s being barred from the roads on alternate days. Beijinger’s being Beijingers simply bought second cars to get around the rule, but in 2012 they cant do that thanks to the license plate lottery that limits…

Oct 26, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged air, alsobeen, andeven, Association, atthe, authorities, beijing, Beijing-ren, Beijinger, Beijinger's Not Happy With Plans To Ease Congestion During the, Beijingers, Beijingers simply, being, Cant, Capital, car, center, chance, characteristic, Chensaid, China, city, combatcongestion, Commission, congestion, controversy, Daily, Day, Drivers, driving based, ease, easecongestion, effect, gridlock, halve, Happy, lastdigit, license, Limei, lottery, measure, month, Motorists, New Car, number, officials, ofmore, Olympic, Olympics, percent, Plate, population, problem, professorat, prompting, proposal, quality, registration, registrations, research, road, roads, root, rule, second cars, secretary-general, series, system, technology, term, time, tocontrol, toggle, traffic, transport, University, vehicles, volume, Wang, Week Comments 1

BYD Invents “Watch Key”

We’re…

Oct 23, 2012 Posted by In BYD Auto, Chinese Car News Tagged access, addition, air, antenna, Aston, bag, base, board, business, BYD, Cant, car, car owner, car owners, circuit, company, conditioning, drive, engine, engineer, Expansion, frequency, future, interference, Invents, Jaeger, key, LeCoultre, maker, mechanism, metal, MOTO, Nokia, OEM, owner, part, plastic, point, problem, Property, proximity, quartz, radio, recognition, recognition technology, SBID, signal, situation, solution, standing, stone, system, technology, time, USD, Watch Comments 0

On China, and the World.

This piece was written by long term China Car Times commentator August Schwartz who has been following the Chinese auto industry closely and from affair for the past decade.

The last week or so I have had a burning desire to do something I have not done in a very long time. It has been nearly five years since I wrote my last piece on Lifan,…
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Oct 23, 2012 Posted by In Commentary Tagged accounting, affair, air, art, article, asbestos, Audi, August, auto, award, Beer, benchmark, bit, bmw, Boston, Boston Beer Company, brand, Buicks, burning, business, car, China, commentator, commitment, company, Concept, Consumer, Country, decade, decision, department, desire, development, doubt, drive, employee, employees, empowerment, engineering, enjoyment, esteem, example, exception, face, feeling, Finance, foot, future, generalization, Google, Growth, hand, history, Industry, infrastructure, ingredient, interest, level, Lifan, luck, Luxury, Management, manufacturer, Market, Marketing, matter, Motto, News, November, number, outsider, passion, piece, plan, press, pride, privilege, product, profit, publicity, purpose, reading, Recall, regard, region, rehabilitation, reputation, result, risk, run, Samuel Adams, scenario, Schwartz, scientist, Seat, series, share, shareholder, Society, something, Southwest, Southwest Airlines, sportiest, stakeholder, star, student, Subaru, term, test, theory, thing, time, Times, today, topic, Toyota, trample, transportation, use, vocational, way, Week, word, world, yesteryear Comments 0

On the Personal Struggle Behind the Burnt and Plundered Toyota Dealership in Qingdao

This article was originally posted to the Chinese auto portal Auto.163.com late last week, I put it into my bookmarks with the aim of translating it over the weekend, it didn’t happen of course but life did and I finally had a chance to translate it over lunch on Tuesday. Except the original article had been deleted from the Auto 163 site. Perhaps it…

Oct 23, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged aim, aligncenter, alignleft, anti, application, article, attachment, August, auto, beat, bone, boycott, building, Burnt, Cai, Camry, caption, Cell, chance, choice, Chong, com, company, course, creation, dealer, dealership, development, document, door, earnest, Economic, equipment, event, exterior, Factory, faith, Fire, fledgling, floor, forecourt, Gao, government, ground, Group, guangzhou, Guangzhou Honda, heart, honda, Huangdao, Industry, Information, Japanese brands, joy, life, looting, lunch, March, Market, minimum, month, Motto, name, Notice, office, period, permission, Personal, Plundered, portal, product, Protest, province, Qingdao, quality, rioting, RMB, route, Rui, safety, scene, September, share, show, site, smashing, staff, struggle, tally, target, team, the dealership, time, total, touch, Toyota, traffic, Tuesday, verge, veteran, Wang Chong Wei, Wang Standing, Week, weekend, Wei, width, year, zone Comments 0

Introducing Mr. Ferrari

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

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

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

Ford Focus ST to be Imported in Early 2013

The Ford Focus is already a hot product for the Chinese market, but perhaps the forth coming ST model will be just as hot. The ST won’t be made in China according to media reports circulating earlier today, but the model will be imported into China. Of course the media haven’t yet revealed where the country of origin will be, the Focus is currently…

Oct 15, 2012 Posted by In Chang'an Ford Tagged area, China, Country, course, donor, drip, Factory, Focus, Ford, Ford Focus, Golf, GTI, Imported, Market, model, option, origin, petrol, product, RMB, status, the Chinese market, time, today Comments 0

MG Announces 4.6 Million GBP Loses in the UK

From Birmingham Mail:

LONGBRIDGE ran up losses of more than s4.6 million last year despite selling more cars following the long-awaited launch of…
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Oct 12, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged Announces, building, car, cash, cent, centre, challenge, company, corporation, debut, deficit, Design, diesel, Director Hao Wang, engine, Events Manager Doug Wallace, Factory, firm, future, GBP, Group, group companies, handling, income, increase, introduction, launch, Longbridge, Loses, loss, Mail, Market, material, McD, MG Motor UK, MG Motor UK PR, Million, money, motor, number, parent, product, recognise, recognition, redevelopment, reduction, report, SAIC, SAIC Motor Corporation, show, size, space, tax, test, time, tip, trend, turnover, UK, UK market, value, vehicle, version, while, work, year Comments 4

Ford Announces Record Sales in September

Ford employees have a major cause for celebration this weekend, Ford announced its best sales ever in September 2012 with passenger car sales up 54% and total sales increasing 35%.

â€œAchieving record sales makes us more committed than ever to provide consumers with a full family of high quality, fuel-efficient,…

Oct 12, 2012 Posted by In Chang'an Ford, Industry News Tagged Achieving, Announces, August, building, car, cause, celebration, CEO, CFMA, Chairman, China, contracting, corporation, Dave Schoch, Expansion, family, Ford, Ford Announces Record Sales, Ford Motor China, Ford-brand, foundation, Growth, increase, Investment, JiangLing, JMC, long-term, Market, month, motor, Passenger, passenger car, percent, period, quality, record, response, sector, September, time, value, vehicle, venture, weekend, wholesale cars, working, year Comments 0

Daihatsu Back to China? Spy Shots Say Maybe Yes

Daihatsu is one of those car manufacturers that made massive early gains in the Chinese market only to proverbially piss it all into the wind just as the market began to really open. The Japanese company played upon early warm relations between Japan and China when Japan was all about investing its new found wealth into its former colony, Daihatsu hit…

Oct 10, 2012 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged arrangement, auto, body, brand, car, car companies, center, Chang, Charade, China, city, Clone, colony, company, Daihatsu, Daihatsu Charade, ebola, FAW, FAW-Toyota, frame, gallery, gold, hafei, home, Idea, Japanese market, launch, level, license, Market, model, number, outbreak, parent, parent company, PRC, presence, Shots, spy, stage, start, story, suv, technology, Terios, the Chinese market, tie, time, Toyota, wealth, weight, Wind, Wuling, Xiali, Zotye Comments 1

2012 China Festival of Speed Coverage

The China Festival of Speed promised so much, at least on paper. A few tell tale signs that the event wouldn’t be up to expectations came via their official website, parts of it were still under construction come opening curtain time but the organizers were active on Chinese social media circles, busily promoting the event to super car clubs, car clubs,…

Oct 9, 2012 Posted by In Culture Tagged Allard, appearance, auto, bay, beach, brand, bridge, Cadillac, car, car clubs, car culture, center, China, China Festival of Speed, choice, Choppers, coast, commitment, construction, coverage, crowd, Culture, curtain, Day, dealer, distance, doom, drive, effort, entry, event, execution, experience, Festival, Festival of Speed, gallery, Golden, government, Holiday, Idea, Ive, lack, locality, lot, Lotus, maintenance, message, model, modification, modified car, Morgan, NYO, Open, opportunity, oversea, paper, picturesque, place, Porsche, Qingdao City Center, right, RMB, road, section, security, shop, show, side, site, social media, speed, spitting, tale, Ticket, time, tire, tunnel, turf, undersea, visit, Volvo, website, Week, West, world, year Comments 3

Japanese Brands Hurting in China

Prior to World War Two as Westerners know it, Imperial Japan was busy taking hold of land in Asia, Modern Day Okinawa, Korea, Taiwan and the surrounding islands to Taiwan. Fast Forward to 1945, Japan had surrendered to the US and its allies, and countries were waking up from 50 years of Japanese colonization. All land was returned, except for a group…

Oct 9, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged auto, brand, brands, car, China, Chinese consumers, claim, coast, colonization, company, Corp, Day, deft, Demand, Diao, Dongfeng, Duty, evening, Fast, Forward, government, Group, hassle, hold, honda, Hurting, Hyundai, Imperial, Imperial Japan, inventory, Isles, Japan, Japanese, Japanese Brands Hurting, Japanese car, Japanese colonization, Kia, lack, Land, language, Lexus, love, Market, minority, Modern, month, motor, News, nissan, owner, ownership, percent, period, portfolio, product, rash, response, row, September, spat, Taiwan, take, taking, territorial, tie, time, tomorrow, Toyota, traction, Tuesday, vehicle, venture, war, Week, world, year Comments 2

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

Run a Red Light in China? Get Ready to See Six Points Drop From Your License. New Road Rules for China’s Roads.

From January 1st 2013, strict new driving…

Oct 9, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged article, bus, China, China Daily, coach, coach drivers, crash, Daily, death, default, Driver, Drivers, driving, driving laws, drop, drug, education, experience, Good, government, head, highway, icy, inclement, influence, January, law, license, light, minimum, mortality, mountain, number, Passenger, passenger vehicle, pattern, period, place, profile, province, rate, Red, repeat, report, road, run, school, School bus drivers, seating, side, spate, system, test, theory, time, traffic, truck, truck drivers, vehicle, weather, wheel, whilst, world, year Comments 0

What?! No Comments?! and Happy Holidays!

CCT has had to close its comments section for a short while. The amount of spam comments we were receiving on a daily basis was more than enough to cripple the server and it bring it down for hours at a time, last week we were receiving over 2000 spam comments per day, throw in the traffic generated from GizChina and were cracking somewhere between…

Sep 29, 2012 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged amount, basis, care, CCT, Chairman Mao, comment, content, cripple, Day, Demand, error, event, feature, Festival, founding, GizChina, government, Happy, Happy Holidays, Holiday, Holidays, Jiaonan, Management, message, New, October, road, section, server, server management, shame, Shi, Shi Yi, side, software, spam, spam comments, spam messages, speed, task, time, traffic, trip, Week, whilst, year

The Future of JV Sub Brands: Chinese Brand, Foreign Tech

Sub brands were the hype at the 2010 and 2011 auto shows, it was brands brands brands brands brands, we’re going to make brands. By the time the 2012 Global Automotive Forum rolled around, automotive directors, CEO’s and consultants were starting to see the strain of maintaining marketing and engineering budgets for multi-brand companies, brands are…

Sep 28, 2012 Posted by In Dongfeng Automobile Company, Industry News Tagged baojun, brands, Chinese Brand, Citroen, deal, Dongfeng, Dongfeng Passenger Vehicles, Dongfeng-Peugeot-Citroen Automobile, engineering, Foreign, Forum, JV Sub Brands, Liu Wei Dong, strain, technology, time Comments 0

Miss China Becomes Miss World

Cars, Trains, Planes and automobiles are this sites main talking points,…

Aug 20, 2012 Posted by FrankF In Culture Tagged beauty, Becomes, city, contest, development, Dow Jones China, Inner, Jessica Michelle Kahawaty, Jones, Miss China, Miss World, Miss World 2012, Ordos, Sophie Elizabeth Moulds, student, time, title, Yu Wenxia, Zhang Zilin Comments 0

Jetta NF Testing in the Nude

The Jetta NF is on its way, the car has been sighted out testing a number of times already and will launch at the same time as the new VW Santana which also shares the same PQ25 platform as the VW Polo, this platform will also underpin the new Skoda Rapid and Toledo Sedan. Can VW get enough small cars into the Chinese market? It seems that its rush…

Aug 15, 2012 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged bhp, car, Jetta, level, link, model, new Jetta, new VW Santana, Polo, production, Skoda Rapid, testing, time, Toledo Sedan, VW, VW Santana, way Comments 6

Honda Insight Coming to China

China has the Prius, it…

Aug 3, 2012 Posted by In Green News Tagged awareness, China, China China, CRZ, future, honda, Honda China, Honda Civic Hybrid, Honda Insight, latter, Lexus, motor, production, range, Style, time Comments 1

Want to Avoid Big Brother? Change Your Plate

Whilst walking…

Jul 2, 2012 Posted by In Culture Tagged Big Brother, Big Brothers, line, paper, perp, Plate, police, queue, RMB, rule, time, today, traffic police station, transgression, transgressions Comments 0

BYD Electric Vehicle Catches Fire After Accident; Three Dead

Three people are dead after…

May 28, 2012 Posted by Jeff Lundblad In Chinese Car News Tagged BYD Electric Vehicle Catches, car, cause, combustion, Dead, excess, Fire, impact, nissan, police, taxi, time Comments 21

China puts aside 6 Billion RMB ($960 mill USD) for New Energy Car Subsidies

The central government has allocated 6 billion yuan ($949 million) to subsidise consumer purchases of fuel-saving cars, Xinhua News Agency reported late on Wednesday, putting a cumulative figure for the first…
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May 17, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged car, Chinese yuan, Consumer, consumer purchases, displacement, figure, Mill, New Energy Car Subsidies, News, Reuters, The central government, time, vehicle, Xinhua, Xinhua News Agency Comments 0

BMW launches new 125i 1-Series in China

BMW proved a point in the Chinese market, they…

May 15, 2012 Posted by In BMW China, Industry News Tagged bmw, cheap cars, Chinese, headway, mindset, MINI, model, pysche, range, the Chinese market, time, today, version Comments 1

Infiniti to see Chinese production

From the Washington Post via AP

Luxury automaker Infiniti said Friday it will manufacture cars in China for the first time starting…
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Apr 21, 2012 Posted by In Industry News Tagged Andy Palmer, assembly, auto market, automakers, automobile, car, Chinese Production, Ford Motor Co, Global Infiniti & Luxury Business Unit, Infiniti, necessity, nissan, Nissan Motor Co., percent, production, show, time, vice Comments 0

Porsche Driver uses toothpaste to alter license plate, gets 2200RMB fine and loses license

Feb 27, 2012 Posted by In Culture Tagged Chinese, Driver, habit, Jiaonan, law, license plate, License Plates, News, Plate, Porsche Driver, system, time, toothpaste, traffic Comments 7

Another Look at the JAC 4R3 Cloned F150

JAC’s decision to make a low cost Ford F150 may have become a decision the company will live to regret, the JAC 4R3 has gone far and wide on the internet with plenty of China bashing attached, it…

Feb 3, 2012 Posted by In JAC Motors Tagged car, Cloned, com, decision, Ford F150, hood, Internally, jac, JAC Employees, link, Look, plenty, time Comments 14

On the Canadian Ambassadors Car

The Canadian Ambassador to China does not get nearly enough…

Feb 2, 2012 Posted by In Culture, Industry News Tagged Ambassador Mulroney, Audi, Camry Hybrid, car, Chinese, Chinese government, Chinese vice minister, David Mulroney, Gary Locke, level, Low, Netizens, position, The Canadian Ambassador to China, time, Toyota Camry Hybrid, vice, Weibo Comments 2

2011 China Auto Sales in Review

When the Chinese auto market…

Jan 20, 2012 Posted by CatherineQu In Chinese Car News, Industry News Tagged auto market, break, car, China Auto Sales, commercial vehicles, course, government departments buying cars, middle, neck, passenger car, rate, spit, sub, time, way Comments 9

China Pulls the Plug on Foreign Capital in Auto Industry

China’s Ministry of Commerce and the National Reform and Development Commission (NDRC) issued a cryptic statement today stating that support for foreign capital in the auto industry will be with drawn in…

Dec 30, 2011 Posted by In Industry News Tagged auto industry, auto market, body, car, China, Chinese manufacturers, city, course, hand, joint venture, manufacturers, NDRC, PSA, share, state, technology, time Comments 1

Next Generation BYD F3 spotted testing

BYD’s rise from local car manufacturer to a worldwide phenomena came on the back of the humble BYD F3, the compact car which looks rather like a last generation Toyota Corolla, was one of the best selling cars month on month in 2009 however in 2010 quality concerns from consumers that bought the car emerged which tapered off F3 sales in 2010. In the…

Dec 12, 2011 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged auto, Borg Warner, BYD F3, car, car manufacturer, Corolla, engine, model, name, Next Generation BYD F3, notch, press, rise, time, Wang Chuan Fu, worldwide phenomena Comments 4

Pang Da Group to watch Saab go – or not

Pangda’s problem: ‘The bride to be married, the groom is not me.‘

According to the report of December 4^th of Reuters, Saab Automobile will be jointly held by a Chinese bank (not Bank of China) and Youngman Automobile, with holding shares less than 50%. Saabâ€™s new ownership structure is that the Swedish car company SWAN…

Dec 7, 2011 Posted by Pierce Geng In Chinese Car News Tagged Bank of China, Bank of China holding, car, General, General Motors, gm, Group, Pang Da Group, reporter, Reuters, Saab, Saab Automobile, Saab cars, SWAN, time, visit, Wang Yin, Youngman, Youngman Automobile Comments 1

Chevrolet Camaro to come to China with Transformers edition

Perhaps the Chevrolet Cruze Transformers edition was just there to test the water ahead of the real Transformers edition rolling into town, rich Transformers fan boys will be able to lap up…

Nov 17, 2011 Posted by In Chevrolet China Tagged Camaro, Chevrolet Camaro, Chevrolet Cruze Transformers edition, China, city, Cruze, edition, fan, fun, gallery, link, special edition, time, Transformers, Transformers edition, Transformers fan, water Comments 3

Kia ramping up production in China with additional factories

Kia have taken the world auto market by storm over the past 24 months, gone are the odd, quirky designs that were only able to rival second hand cars and in are sleak, slender designs that are enough to make the Bavarian’s blush and the Japanese worry themselves to sleep at night. Kia’s unique selling point for the longest time was that they are cheap…

Nov 2, 2011 Posted by In Chinese Car News, Industry News Tagged China, Dongfeng, Dongfeng Yueda Kia, facility, hand, Hyundai, Hyundai Motors, Kia, Kia Motors, Kia Rio, Kia Sportage, Ltd, percent, Plant, production, second hand cars, storm, time Comments 8

Toyota opens R&D Center in China

The foundation laying ceremony of Toyotaâ€™s R&D center, or Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing Center (China), was held in Changshu, Jiangsu province recently.

Chinaâ€™s authorities are not satisfied with Toyotaâ€™s development of new energy vehicles in China. Now Toyota has invested $689 million to open its fifth R&D…

Oct 31, 2011 Posted by SusanZhao In Industry News, Toyota China Tagged Akio Toyoda, center, Changshu, China, China?s National Development and Reform Commission, combustion, development, Electric Vehicles, hybrid vehicles, Jiangsu Province, joint ventures in China, lead, Manufacturing, president, production, technology, test, time, Toyota, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing Center Comments 1

Foreign auto insurers to potentially enter China

The auto insurance market in China is still in its infancy along with the entire auto market, but there is big money in insurance. Currently the majority of large scale insurance companies are state owned but more and more privately owned small scale insurance companies are entering the scene, but it seems that all of them will have to do compete with…

Oct 24, 2011 Posted by In Industry News Tagged American International Group Inc., auto insurance, auto insurers, China, China Insurance Regulatory Commission, Core Pacific-Yamaichi International Ltd., Council, insurance, insurance companies, insurers, liability, money, percent, person, Property, scale, state, State Council, time Comments 0

Is the next generation Chery QQ another Toyota Aygo inspired vehicle?

Toyota have a rough time in China, they maybe the world’s biggest car marker but in the Chinese market they are lagging behind, way behind in fact. Not only are Toyota’s sales relatively low compared to their biggest rivals, it seems that their entire range is available at their local rivals dealerships, take the humble Aygo for example, PSA used it…

Oct 20, 2011 Posted by In Chery Automobile, Spy Shots Tagged Aygo, car, Chery QQ, link, mini car, Panda, Peugeot, PSA, QQ, range, Riich, shine, time, Toyota, Toyota Aygo, vehicle, way Comments 0

Chevrolet Malibu to get 1.6T unit in China

The Chevrolet Malibu is shaping up to be an interesting car to say the least, the Malibu was unveiled in China earlier this year at the Shanghai Auto Show for the first time, Shanghai GM are slowly pushing Chevrolet up market in terms of its brand positioning and are aiming at the brand at a more youthful market. Previously Chevrolet was a bargain bin…

Oct 17, 2011 Posted by In Spy Shots Tagged auto, bhp, brand positioning, Buick, car, chevrolet, Chevrolet Malibu, China, link, Malibu, ride, Shanghai GM, time, torque, year Comments 0

China to be world’s biggest EV market by 2015?

According to American consultancy company, Pikes Research, China will be the world’s largest EV market by 2015. Theoretically, it could be, but real world conditions indicate that for China to become the world’s largest EV market in the next three years they are going to have to do a lot of ground work on building the necessary infrastructure and educating…

Oct 7, 2011 Posted by In Industry News Tagged Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific region, car, China, complex, consultancy, Consumer, development, Electric Vehicles, EVs, ground, Japan, Pike Research, Pikes Research, region, sub, time, vehicle Comments 2

China Car Times resumes normal operations

You may have noticed that China Car Times has been a little slow on the news front over the past two weeks, for this there are two reasons. First of all, when the editor leaves for a week of sun shine in Sanya and can’t find a decent internet connection that doesn’t…

Oct 7, 2011 Posted by Ash In Chinese Car News Tagged birthday, car, China, China Car Times, course, excuse, Kid, modern China, Qin, Qin Shi Huang, Shi, shine, sun, time Comments 2

BYD E6B out in the open

BYD is about to start private sales of its flagship EV the BYD E6, previously the fully fledged electric vehicle was only available to company and government buyers but now the company is moving to sell the car to private buyers. The E6 will be known as the E6B for private owners and has undergone a string of changes since the first model. BYD have…

Sep 19, 2011 Posted by In Chinese Car News Tagged BYD E6, BYD E6B, car, cars, course, deal, detail, government, model, opinion, side, time, vehicle Comments 4

BYD planning big bond sale for further investment

From Bloomberg:

BYD Co., the Chinese automaker part-owned by Warren Buffettâ€™s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., may have to sell a record amount of bonds to pay…
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Sep 19, 2011 Posted by In Industry News Tagged amount, Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes, basis, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Bloomberg: BYD Co., bond, Charlene Gu, corporate bonds, Dongfeng, Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Group, Hathaway, Honda Motor Co., Investment, Nissan Motor Co., percent, time, Warren Buffett?s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., year, Yuanta Securities HK Co. Comments 1

Chinaâ€™s MIIT says it wonâ€™t resoirt to bailout despite auto output and sales falling to new low

Chinaâ€™s auto output and sales growth in the Jan-July period fell to new low in the past 10 years. The auto output and sales in the period grew only 2.3% and 3.2% from a year earlier to 10.46 million units and 10.6 million units. Different from the attitude of the concerned Chinese authorities before, the Chinese government wonâ€™t take any…

Sep 19, 2011 Posted by SusanZhao In Industry News Tagged attitude, auto industry, auto market, Auto Sales, CAAM, China?s Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China?s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Chinese authorities, government, Industry, MIIT, overdraft, result, situation, stimulus, time, year Comments 0

Peugeot 308 Sedan has world premier in Chengdu

Sep 16, 2011 Posted by FrankF In PSA China Tagged car, Chengdu, Chengdu Peugeot, China, choice, end, hug, looker, model, Peugeot, Peugeot 308, range, time, world premier Comments 5