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  All-new Buick GL8 MPV launching this month in China

  12 November 2010 / 10 comments

  Buick is big in China, which tastes in automobiles lean more towards America than Europe or Japan (huge saloons are in, tiny city cars aren’t, for instance) . If you’ve stepped foot in Shanghai or […]

   

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  Berjaya Corp granted local assembly manufacturing licence

  22 October 2010 / 63 comments

  Well, another player has joined the list of local assemblers. Berjaya Corporation has been granted a manufacturing licence to build vehicles in the country by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and with that […]

   

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  China wants foreign companies to disclose EV secrets

  22 September 2010 / 134 comments

  Trouble seems to be brewing in one of the world’s largest automotive markets, China. It has been reported in the Wall Street Journal that the Chinese Government wants to force foreign companies to reveal their […]

   

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  Nissan and Dongfeng launching new brand in China

  11 September 2010 / 8 comments

  Nissan and Dongfeng Motor Group have announced that they will be launching a Chinese-market only sub brand. The new brand will be called Qichen, which supposedly means Venus in English. Their logo is made up […]

   

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  General Motors and SAIC to jointly develop small engines and transmissions

  18 August 2010 / 6 comments

  GM and Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp (SAIC) have a healthy partnership in China, with their recent joint venture (with Wuling) to create a new car brand called Bao Jun (treasured horse). Furthering their partnership, the […]

   

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  Beijing Auto adds boot to Merc B-Class knock-off

  6 August 2010 / 65 comments

  The car you see above is the C30 Saloon from Beijing Auto, the same company that bought the previous generation Saab 9-5 platform. This is also the same company that tried and failed to buy […]

   

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  Volvo to make 7-Series and S-Class competitor?

  5 August 2010 / 46 comments

  Geely Boss Li Shufu mentioned just hours after the announcement of the Chinese automakers purchase of Volvo that he wants Volvo cars to compete with top end marques like BMW and Mercedes. Li attributes the […]

   

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  Volvo Cars now officially owned by Chinese Geely!

  3 August 2010 / 56 comments

  It’s official – Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Company Limited (or Geely as its known to you and me) has completed its acquisition of the Volvo Car Corporation from Ford Motor Company. This has been done […]

   

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  China to make mild hybrid tech compulsory by 2012?

  28 July 2010 / 13 comments

  China might be taking another step forward in reducing their carbon footprint by making it compulsory for all vehicles in China to have the “BSG hybrid” system. BSG stands for “Belt Driven Starter Generator” and […]

   

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  Ex-GM employee caught passing hybrid secrets to Chery

  24 July 2010 / 21 comments

  Have you ever wondered how staff from one company can simply move to another, without revealing any trade secrets, especially when they work in a technical or engineering capacity? Isn’t that why they were hired […]

   

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  Bao Jun – GM, SAIC and Wuling’s new low-cost car brand

  20 July 2010 / 36 comments

  GM has announced that they will be launching a low-cost brand in China with its joint venture partners SAIC and Wuling. The new brand will be called Bao Jun which means “treasured horse”, will produce […]

   

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  PSA Citroen announces joint venture with Changan Automobiles

  11 July 2010 / 3 comments

  PSA Peugeot Citroen and Changan Automobiles have announced the finalization of a 50-50 JV in China, financed by an initial investment of 8.4 billion Yuan (RM4 billion).. First on their list is the introduction of […]

   

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  EU approves sale of Volvo to Chinese carmakers, Geely

  7 July 2010 / 0 comments

  It has been announced recently that the European Union competition regulators have approved the sale of Ford Motor Co’s Volvo, to Chinese car maker Geely Automobile Holdings and investment firm Daqing. This comes after an […]

   

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  Long wheelbase Volkswagen Tiguan for Chinese market

  18 June 2010 / 20 comments

  To fulfill the Chinese market’s need for ample rear legroom, Volkswagen has released the Tiguan in a long wheel base (LWB) format. From the standard car’s 2,604 mm, the LWB variant’s wheelbase grows by 80 […]

   

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  Honda faces yet another strike at locks supplier

  11 June 2010 / 31 comments

  Honda has been facing a host of strikes at different plants in China recently. The latest is at a lock supplier, located at Southern China’s Pearl River Delta. The workers plan to extend their strike […]

   

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