China Planning to Force Foreign Carmakers Share Hybrid Technology
20 Sep 2010, 09:37 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Chinese auto market is constantly growing and the country has quickly became the largest market for many foreign companies, many of them coming straight from Europe, including Volkswagen and Aud...
Fact or Fiction? Lincolns to Be Built and Sold in China
20 Sep 2010, 08:47 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / In terms of sales figures, China has always been an attractive market for all car companies, especially those in the United States who were last year seriously put at risk due to financial difficult...
Chinese Carmakers Ally to Cut Weight and Challenge VW
19 Sep 2010, 12:50 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / It was only a matter of time until Chinese carmakers started challenging industry leaders. This time, they're planning to collaborate on developing weight cutting technologies, thus reducing fu...
Wuling Hong Guang Goes on Sale
15 Sep 2010, 10:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer GM, together with its Chinese partner SAIC, announced today the market entrance of the Wuling Hong Guang, a vehicle which is being advertised as the first compact business vehi...
BMW Gains 12 Percent in August
9 Sep 2010, 13:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / German manufacturer BMW announced today its sales figures for last month, posting, as it did in the last few months, an encouraging increase compared to 2009. For BMW, the growth was of 12.5 percent...
Growth for Audi in August
8 Sep 2010, 10:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After yesterday German manufacturer Audi gave us a taste of what last month meant for it in China, the company's numbers for worldwide August sales are in. As it was the case in the last severa...
Dongfeng Nissan Reaches 2M Production Milestone
8 Sep 2010, 08:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The local alliance Japanese manufacturer Nissan has with the Chinese from Dongfeng reached a major milestone this week, as it announced the production of its second millionth vehicle since its incep...
Dongfeng Nissan Venucia Brand is Born
8 Sep 2010, 08:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The local Chinese alliance between Japanese manufacturer Nissan and Dongfeng announced yesterday the creation of a new brand for the local market. Dubbed Venucia, or Qi Chen in China, the new brand ...
Audi Breaks Another Record in China
7 Sep 2010, 10:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / What came in as the news of the day a while back has turned into some kind of routine: record sales figures for carmakers in China. Chinese love cars and, most of all, German and American cars. Afte...
Ford Pushes Forward in China
2 Sep 2010, 14:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We are quite accustomed by now to having global carmakers, especially German and American ones, releasing impressive sales figures for their operations in China. They have been doing so for more tha...
Chevy Volt Arrives in China
31 Aug 2010, 14:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / China, one of GM's largest markets, is currently buzzing at the news of the first drivable Chevrolet Volt having arrived in the country. To be marketed here starting next year, the vehicles wh...
NESTIA Born to Boost EVs in China
31 Aug 2010, 08:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Last week, the Chinese Assets Supervision and Administration Commission announced the creation of perhaps the biggest local project to date meant to promote EVs and their use in the fastest growing ...
BMW M3 Tiger Edition Photos
31 Aug 2010, 08:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After back at the beginning of the month German manufacturer BMW gave us a little taste of the special edition of the M3 is has prepared for the Chinese market, additional photos showing the Orange ...
Beiqi Foton Sets Up Automotive Joint Lab
30 Aug 2010, 07:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Chinese manufacturer Beiqi Foton announced this weekend it has partnered with American supplier Freescale Semiconductor to create a new Automotive Joint Lab in charge with allowing the Chinese'...
Dana Axles for Beiqi Foton
27 Aug 2010, 10:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Chinese carmaker Beiqi Foton Motors announced today it has selected American supplier Dana Holding for a contract regarding the delivery of Spicer rear axle assemblies which will be used in an SUV a...
Opel to Sell in China Starting this Year
26 Aug 2010, 14:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in May, Opel's CEO Nick Reilly outlined the mid term strategy of the German manufacturer, describing it as a push to introducing or re-introducing Opel in a series of markets on three cont...
Chinese Mega Traffic Jam Begins to Clear
25 Aug 2010, 09:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Contrary to what Chinese authorities were expecting, the huge traffic jam which crippled the expressway that links Beijing to Huai'an in Heibei Province in China has begun to clear up, with the...
Ferrari 458 Italia Fire in China
25 Aug 2010, 06:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / By now, we must admit we have lost track of how many Ferrari 458 Italias we've seen going up in flames so, if that's fine with you, we'll give up trying to count them. What is obvious...
Chinese Carmakers Join Forces on Mega EV Project
24 Aug 2010, 10:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The efforts which began last year and were aimed at reducing the huge number of companies which are manufacturing cars in China (well over a hundred such companies, according to last year's est...
Geely to Build Volvo Plant in China
21 Aug 2010, 11:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The ink hasn't even completely dried on the purchase contract for Volvo signed between the Chinese and American manufacturer Ford and Geely is already thinking big. With its sights set on m...