Chinese Car Companies

September 8th, 2011 by By admin # BYD E6 Electric Car sedan and the world outside F3DM, including the world’s largest car company’s strategic vision, “The future of green technology” represents a number of important new models offered, the first production plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Get a new dual-mode (if any) of the hybrid system with plug-in lithium battery, the future of the company could do more about global supply. BYD Auto President Wang Chuanfu will be joined at the press...Read Full Story

By Chris Haak06.28.2007Last week, photos and video started circulating online of the horrific crash test results of the Chinese Brilliance BS6 sedan. The car was tested using the well-recognized Euro-NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) offset frontal crash test at 40 miles per hour by ADAC, a German auto club.In cars that ace these tests, the passenger compartment stays almost completely intact with no intrusion of the floor into the driver's footwell or the instrument panel into the driver's...Read Full Story

By Brendan Moore08.03.2007 Sources at both Fiat and Chery say that an agreement for Chery to build Alfa Romeo cars in China will probably be signed next week. The Alfa Romeo 159 will be the first car built under the new agreement and the Alfa Romeo 147 will follow in short order.Chery already has an agreement with Chrysler to build cars for Chrysler for export to the U.S. and Latin America under the Chrysler brand name, and it also has an agreement with a small Israeli company named Quantum...Read Full Story

By Brendan Moore08.03.2007 Sources at both Fiat and Chery say that an agreement for Chery to build Alfa Romeo cars in China will probably be signed next week. The Alfa Romeo 159 will be the first car built under the new agreement and the Alfa Romeo 147 will follow in short order.Chery already has an agreement with Chrysler to build cars for Chrysler for export to the U.S. and Latin America under the Chrysler brand name, and it also has an agreement with a small Israeli company named Quantum...Read Full Story

Suzuki's take on a personal mobility vehicle - the PIXY+SCC conceptBy Brendan Moore11.12.2007Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC) and General Motors, partners in a highly successful joint venture in China, will show a “personal mobility concept” at the upcoming Expo in Shanghai. The personal mobility concept segment is comprised of clean, sustainably-powered small or micro vehicles. The personal mobility concept envisions an emerging class of clean-energy vehicles, such as solar-powered...Read Full Story

By Brendan Moore07.13.2007Chery Automobile Co. of China, who just last week signed a production agreement with Chrysler to sell Chery cars in the U.S. under the Chrysler brand in 2008, has stated that they will double their exports in calendar year 2007.This looks to be a pretty safe bet since Chery reported quadrupling their exports in the first 6 months of 2007. China currently sells their cars in more than 50 countries, most of which are in developing regions. Chery may be the first...Read Full Story

By Brendan Moore06.19.2007The iconic London Taxi will soon be produced in China. As we reported last year, Geely purchased a majority stake in Manganese Bronze Holdings, PLC, in Coventry, England, the maker of the 59 year-old London Taxi.The current model is called the TX Series and approximately 2500 units a year are produced. The TX Series has a turbocharged four-cylinder Ford diesel, costs an average $55,000 USD retail price and has a service life expectation of approximately 400,000 miles...Read Full Story

Detroit’s Big Three automakers may need to send a special “no thank you” card to the Chinese people if they end up receiving their requested $25 billion bailout bridge loan from American taxpayers. Chinese carmakers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire GM and Chrysler, the auto manufacturing giants in China, such as Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) and Dongfeng Motor Corporation, have the capability and intention to buy some assets of the two crisis-plagued American...Read Full Story

By Brendan Moore 03.31.2009 If you’re on the Chrysler acquisition project team (sorry, “partnership” team) at Fiat, you must be feeling pretty good right about now. Because whatever valuation you arrived at for Chrysler last month just got halved, courtesy of the United States government. The Obama administration has publicly stated that if Chrysler doesn’t do a deal [...]Read Full Story

Having already announced the Roewe N1 Concept, China's Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) that owns the rights to the MG Rover brand, revealed that its 2009 Shanghai Auto Show booth will also host the world premiere of the MG6 Concept. The five-door liftback model is based on the underpinnings of the Roewe 550 which was designed as SAIC's successor to the Rover 45.Read Full Story