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There are few sounds on the planet more pleasing to a car lover than a Ferrari engine under acceleration. Accordingly if you have access to an Italian exotic from Maranello it seems only natural to frequently drive through tunnels for the sole purpose of amplifying the beautiful sound from the screaming engine. More »
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Car enthusiasm is a global cultural phenomenon that never runs out of ways to show appreciation for favorite models. Sometimes those ideas start from one thought, become increasingly twisted, and end up as a very different kind of horse than anyone expected. More »
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Despite some advances in design, the intransigence of China's copyright enforcers means the country's car companies still ripoff popular designs with glee. The new JAC 4R3 pickup is obviously a copy of the American Ford F-150, but it's not a bad one. More »
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Holy crap, is that an excavator excavating a 12 story building out from underneath itself in China?! Yes, but it's probably not quite the terrible, ridiculously unsafe idea that it seems to be. Here's why. More »
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The Chinese car market is famous for preferring chauffeur-driven SUVs and limos to hard-riding sports cars. Thus, it's not surprising Ruf's first Chinese market-only vehicle won't be a tuned 911, but a Porsche Panamera stretched by nearly 16 inches. More »
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Now that Christmas is over, the Chinese can get back to making things you won't find at Wal-Mart — like an armored attack vehicle with a turret based on a reverse-engineered Army HMMWV (Hummer H1 to us civvies). More »
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Yesterday, China's state press outlets unveiled the CRH500, a new challenger to the record for conventional-wheeled high-speed trains. Its target is to break 310.7 miles per hour (500kph), which would make it as fast as the regional planes that have been flying everyone home for the holidays. More »
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Earlier this year, after Jalopnik pointed to a tide of transmission complaints from owners of 2011 Ford Mustangs, Ford identified several issues with the car's Chinese-built Getrag MT82 six-speed, and issued a pair of service bulletins. Now, the Feds are done poking around. The verdict? No recall. The transmission's safe as milk. The problem was "abusive" Mustang owners. More »
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A five-year-old girl walking to school in Wenzhou, China had a tantrum that nearly killed her. Trailing reluctantly behind her mother, the girl suddenly stopped and sat down in the street. Just then, a Honda CRV rounded a corner and ran her over. That, and what happened next, was caught on video. More »
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For a country of over a billion people, China is sadly underrepresented in terms of reckless street hoonage. The driver of this Chang'an minitruck doesn't mind that it only has 30 horsepower, because there's drifting do be done in the Middle Kingdom. More »
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Less than two weeks ago it looked like Saab was finally close to selling itself to the Chinese and thus saving the brand, again... maybe. At least a few more months. Not so if GM has its way. Oh my God! They killed Saab again! You Bastards! More »
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Oliver Kuttner is tired. He's tired of your attitude. He's tired of your conclusions. Mostly, he's tired because he just got back from Germany and is so jet-lagged he's almost drunk. Germany was good. They get it in Germany. They definitely get it in China. Not here. Not in America. You don't get it and, even if you do get it, you're not doing anything about it. More »
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Movie star and international playboy George Clooney's latest foray into car advertising shows him speeding off in a Mercedes E-Class limousine around China in an apparent attempt to make happy fun time with a Chinese woman. But why? More »
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Today is "Car Free Day" in the United States, which you probably celebrated by getting in your car and driving to work. It was "Car Free Day" in China yesterday and they celebrated with a giant traffic jam. I don't think it's working. More »
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The wheels on the bus go round and round — until they're stopped by police in China, who discover the driver is hauling 64 children in a minivan built for eight. This is not what anyone means by the term "bench seats." More »
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We're all for getting children interested in cars at a young age, but this disturbing footage surpasses all understanding: a four-year-old girl driving her parents down a Chinese freeway. More »
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There's no equivalent in China to America's array of lemon laws, forcing owners of massively defective new vehicles to exorcise their demons in other ways, whether it's sledgehammers or dragging a broken Volvo through the streets with an ox. More »
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Our dealers just give out free hot dogs and balloons on Saturdays. In China, one Volkswagen dealership hired a band of bikini-clad models to lure in prospects. Until one model apparently decided swimwear was too much clothing for the gig. Maybe the dealership next door was offering bikini models and hot dogs. More »
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American truckers may not get the respect they always deserve, but they're rarely as bold as this Chinese semi driver caught enjoying the breeze from his windshield-free bobtail at 50 mph. More »
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This cement truck driver in China must have been confused when he tried to pull away and couldn't because his back tire had sunk into the roadbed. More »
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Earlier this year we told you about a rising number of Ford Mustang owners complaining of faulty manual transmissions that Ford can't seem to fix. Now U.S. safety regulators have opened a defect probe into 26,000 cars. More »
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China may be the world's fastest-growing automotive market, but so far homegrown Chinese car design has proven unimaginative at best. The generic econoboxes and clones of aging Audis are the result of years of knock-down kits, alliances with Western automakers and an automotive market where few ordinary Chinese could participate until recently. More »
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In a country obsessed with status and burdened with an unbalanced ratio of young men to women, it's not surprising that Chinese men would publicly propose marriage to attractive women who can't walk away — like auto show models. More »
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Two bullet trains have collided over a bridge in Wenzhou, China. As a result, four carriages of the first train derailed. Two were catapulted by the force of the impact into the ground, killing at least 16 passengers. More »
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The opening this week of the 26-mile, $2.3 billion Qindao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge endows the title of world's longest cross-sea bridge to China. Louisiana disagrees, saying the Chinese bridge doesn't count because it's curved. Here we go again... More »
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You say there's an opportunity for yet another 997 variant? In China? That's gold, Jerry, gold! We'll take a Turbo S, paint it in gold with black wheels and sell ten of them for an outrageous price! More »
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Street racers dart in-an-out of oncoming traffic at night, hitting triple digit speeds across multiple stages. This isn't a video game. Or, well, it is a video game. But it's also what these Chinese street racers did in this incredible video series. More »
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When I showed these photos of a Chinese Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 clone to Mike Spinelli here at Jalopnik, his first response was "Oh, a new color!" He had no idea it was fake. And he's driven one. That's because this Fauxborghini is just that good. More »
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Force India's Adrian Sutil and Renault majority shareholder Eric Lux were apparently involved in fisticuffs following the Chinese Grand Prix at a night club called M1NT. Sutil left with scars, Lux walked out of a VIP room bleeding, and Lewis Hamilton had to be removed by bodyguards. More »
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Two weeks ago, we wrote about hundreds of 2011 Ford Mustang owners reporting problems with the six-speed manual transmissions in their vehicles. We're now hearing more complaints — almost daily — but we have yet to hear from Ford. Color us puzzled. UPDATE: Silence broken. More »
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While the only fightin' action at the New York Auto Show was brief, loud and lame, two booth professionals at the Shanghai Auto Show threw down, sending one to a hospital. Even China's auto-show fights are more interesting. More »
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A wedding in Wenzhou, China, last Thursday included a traffic-clogging procession of 28 exotics vehicles, including several Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bentleys. In a country where the rich are still nouveau, the display has sparked a backlash. More »
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Mr. An was driving down a crowded Beijing highway when he noticed a truck carrying hundreds of dogs, many sick and crying, cramped into a tiny space. In a rare act of dissidence, he swerved in front of the truck and prevented it form carrying its living load to the slaughterhouse. More »
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Over in Shanghai, Volvo's Chinese parent Geely trundled out the McCar concept, which it says can transform for a variety of driving needs and could go into production. The Mc stands for "magic." Let's not get ahead of ourselves. More »
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Driving a single bumper car on a public road is the act of a minor hoon. Doing so in Chinese traffic elevates you to full hoon status. Driving two bumper cars at the same time on Chinese roads makes you Hoon of the Day. More »
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Geely basically owns British Taxi-maker Manganese Bronze, but those sexy TX4 cabs are too expensive for the Chinese market, so they've created this concept for a TX4-esque Chinese cab build on an existing platform. They should call it the Compass. More »
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Russia's crazy-driver population has few rivals around the world in either daring or ingenuity. Then there's whomever decided a Chinese sport utility vehicle that appears to have been bashed in a rollover could get up to freeway speeds. More »
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One of the first Ferrari 458 Italia's in China lit up like a Chinese firepot. Perhaps the reason is the country's curious choice of Ferrari mechanics. Warning, though she's fully covered in the linked gallery this is borderline NSFW. More »
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L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant hasn't come close to Michael Jordan's record of corporate endorsements, but as this Chinese ad for Smart shows, he's honing the necessary skills, such as Beijing-quality stunt driving and one-handed nailing of art thieves. More »
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