China automotive industry growing too fast
China, the world's 2nd largest auto market had grown 25% since last year, reaching 6.45 million vehicles in the first 11 months of 2006. With such a huge market to tap, it …
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Chery recalls 1,875 Chery T11 Tiggo SUVs
Chery Automobile Co. Ltd has shown signs of being a responsible car manufacturer that intends to stick around, rather than taking the "make fast profits and ignore issues like brand building and …
No more Chery Visionary Vehicles for the US?
Malcolm Bricklin, who wanted to bring in Chery vehicles into the USA via his company Visionary Vehicles has abandoned his plan, some say because of the news of Daimler Chrysler talking to …
Volkswagen Neeza Concept
Volkswagen's Neeza concept car is a concept car for the Chinese market - looking somewhat like a coupe and station wagon crossover, it was designed with the tastes of Chinese customers in …
Volkswagen Magotan for China
Another car manufacturer has developed a model specially for the Chinese market. Introducing the Volkswagen Magotan. Despite sounding like a strange hybrid fusion between a Mango and a Rambutan, Volkswagen's joint venture …
Daihatsu D-01 Concept – China’s Avanza
The Toyota-Daihatsu siblings take economies of scale to a whole new level unheard of with the introduction of the Daihatsu D-01 Concept recently at the Auto China 2006 motor show. While Toyota …
Lotus gets Jinhua Youngman engineering deal
The feasibility study between Lotus Engineering Malaysia Sdn Bhd and Youngman Automobile Group Co Ltd (Jinhua Youngman) recently concluded with positive results, and Lotus has managed to secure the deal to assist …
Fiat to use Chery’s AVL-designed ACTECO engines
Fiat and Chery have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will result in Fiat using Chery's ACTECO family of engines in it's China-produced cars, with a possibility of the ACTECO engines finding …
Petronas E01 engine to be built in China
Petronas has reached an agreement with two Chinese automotive companies to jointly manufacture the Petronas E01 engine for commercial use, after a Letter of Intent was signed between the three parties back …
Chery and Fiat in talks
Chery Automobile's latest ally to be in the automotive industry might just be Fiat. Fiat has an existing alliance with a Chinese auto manufacturer - Nanjing Automobile Group, but that partnership has …
Chery JV develops hydrogen fuel cell car
Chery Automobile Co., Ltd, J&K Technologies Inc and Tsinghua University has developed a hydrogen fuel cell car which can reach a top speed of 80 km/h and like a traditional hydrogen fuel …
2006 Paris Motor Show Gallery: Shoemobile
This little oddball spotted at the 2006 Paris Motor Show is the Tang Hua Xiao Ya, looking quite sesat in the middle of all the other displays. It's booth doesn't even have …
Geely moves assembly plant plans to Indonesia
According to a report by China Knowledge, Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd has scrapped it's plans to set up an automotive assembly plant in Malaysia. Previously it applied to start assembling cars in …
Chery to build Dodge subcompacts for DCX
Some news regarding collaboration between DaimlerChrysler and Chery. Previously it was reported that Chrysler will name it's subcompact car partner by the end of 2006, with talks currently on-going with a few …
Proton to produce MPV and SUV with Chery
NOTICE: This news was posted back in 2006, but things could have changed now. More news on the Proton-Chery partnership - Business Times reported today that Proton Holdings Bhd may produce an …
Chery QQ AMT; assembly by Proton next year?
Alado Bumi Sdn Bhd launched the new fully imported CBU Chery QQ AMT today, powered by an automated manual gearbox similiar to the unit in the Proton Savvy AMT. The 52hp 75.5Nm …
Great Wall Hover enters Italian streets
Great Wall is the latest Chinese car manufacturer making a foray into the European car market, with 500 units of it to hit the streets of Italy this month. Previously, Jiangling was …
FAW Xiali C1
FAW Tianjin Xiali Automobile is Toyota's partner in China. They've recently launched a few compact car called the FAW Xiali C1 back in the first half of 2006, but I did not …
Assorted Proton announcements
Proton has made a few announcements today, let me go through them one by one. They're mostly to do with memorandum of understanding and intent signed with other companies. Proton reports that …
IGC to start Geely assembly in October 2006
Information Gateway Corp Sdn Bhd (IGC) and Geely will start assembling Geely cars in a plant near Kuantan in October 2006, beginning with the Geely CK sedan. This will make Malaysia the …
