Nissan’s Venucia R50: China Launch in September
31 Jul 2012, 13:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Nissan’s Chinese venture brand Venucia is getting ready to launch its second car for the Chinese market this September. It’s called the R50, and it’s a budget hatchback engineered ...
Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Scooters Ready for Taiwan Production
31 Jul 2012, 13:11 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Taiwan may not be at the forefront of alternative fuel development, it is a state which has the financial power to start its own green program. And thus, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA...
Chinese-Made EV Now Available in the US for $9,995
31 Jul 2012, 11:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The main downside of buying an EV is just that - buying the EV, because of the very high purchase cost. However, a new company called Alvarez Electric Motors Company (AEMC) has just launched range o...
Lambo Aventador Crashed into Macau Office Building
31 Jul 2012, 07:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Lamborghini’s Aventador seems to be enjoying a fair bit of success, for a supercar, that is! According to gtspirit.com, they have sold over 1,000 cars so far and only six of them have been cra...
Tastefully Tuned Chevy Cruze - Ruined by M-Badge
30 Jul 2012, 11:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Well maybe it’s not that tasteful, but it’s not bad. This Chevy Cruze from the Guangdong province, in China has been wrapped in orange and black by its owner, who has also given the car ...
Outsource This - Rebadge That!
28 Jul 2012, 06:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Automobiles gave the men and women who made them, from designers and engineers, right down to the guy who fits the windscreen wipers, a genuine sense of pride. Designing, engineering and building mo...
Who Spilled Matte Grape Juice on This Slab of Ingolstadt ?
27 Jul 2012, 11:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While 'matte grapes' may not be a real thing, there is no getting away from the fact that the Audi Q7 is arguably one of the least pleasant to look at cars ever made. It is a hulking-big s...
Toyota iQ EV Spotted in China
25 Jul 2012, 13:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite Toyota saying that they would not be bringing the all-electric iQ EV to China, a recent post on carnewschina.com comes to contradict that statement. The manufacturer’s official pla...
Jaguar-Land Rover to Create 1,100 UK Jobs
25 Jul 2012, 12:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While other automakers are excessively outsourcing as much of their operations as possible, to the extent that even industry analysts can’t keep up, Jaguar remains firmly rooted in the British...
Dongfeng-Honda Recalling Over 76,000 CR-Vs in China
24 Jul 2012, 12:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Honda no longer imports its cars from Japan to China, as most market-specific models are made by their 50-50 joint venture with the Chinese company Dongfeng. Now, according to chinadaily.com.cn, ...
China Auto Exports Rise by 28% in 2012
24 Jul 2012, 11:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It is no secret that the Chinese car market is a very good place to invest money these days - that is if you have it by the suitcase-full. And while everybody is talking about foreign automakers inv...
China Getting its Own FAW-Branded Range Extended Hybrid
23 Jul 2012, 12:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The FAW Group, one of China’s largest domestic carmakers, is reportedly working on its own Volt-style range extended hybrid which will be much cheaper and considerably lighter. They are also V...
Cadillac Escalade EXT is Shanxi Victory, in China
23 Jul 2012, 08:05 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While we may have seen our fair share of Chinese copies, most of them were dismissible as mere interpretations and adaptations of other manufacturer’s design. Well, the Shanxi Victory is ident...
All-Electric Volvo C30 - Green Car of the Year in China
20 Jul 2012, 14:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volvo’s C30 EV has been awarded the coveted title of ‘Green Car of the Year’ in China, during the 4th New Energy Mobility Summit, after having delivered 15 cars to the city of Shan...
Chinese EV Maker Gets 20,000 Orders
19 Jul 2012, 11:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In an effort to reach their target of having 5-million EVs on their roads by 2020, Chinese authorities are doing everything they can to make it happen. One of these efforts is the recent signing of ...
The Longest Traffic Jam in History – 12 Days, 62-Mile-Long
14 Jul 2012, 12:23 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Thousands of drivers ended up spending no more, no less than 12 days and nights under the clear sky after getting stuck on a Chinese highway
Amusing Incident on Chinese Highway - Domino Fence
13 Jul 2012, 09:33 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This is definitely something you don’t see every day. The green fence which splits the highway longitudinally was probably touched by an inattentive driver who knocked it down, causing the ent...
Skoda Reports Six-Month Sales Record
13 Jul 2012, 07:09 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Skoda has reported a very good first half of the year, with excellent sales on all the markets where its products are available. The January through June period marked a 8.4% increase over last year...
SAIC-GM Joint Venture Developing Three-Cylinder Turbo Engines
12 Jul 2012, 15:46 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / GM’s China joint venture with SAIC will spawn three new turbocharged petrol engines, for use in a very wide array of new cars. These consist of 1.2-, 1.4- and 1.5-liter units, all of which fea...
Guangzhou to Give License Plates Only Via Auctions and Dedicated Lottery
11 Jul 2012, 13:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may remember an older article in which we said that the Chinese city of Guangzhou, capital of the Guangdong province and home to some 11-million people, would be limiting the number of car regis...