Ford had quite the display in Shanghai. They dropped an '09 Fiesta from the roof, ecoBoosted a Flex, showed off a Euro-Focus racer, the kinetic-designed Iosis Max Concept and had flying, leather-clad booth professionals. Rowr!

We were at the Shanghai Auto Show foam mock-up revealing of Stile Bertone's Mantide, but our friends from The Italian Junkyard did one better. Check out the real Mantide, interior and engine included.

The 2009 Shanghai Auto Show featured a ton of copy/paste jobs, but no matter how bad the cars got, there was always a very helpful booth professional there to make it all better.

While in Shanghai, we sat down and interviewed the designer of the Pininfarina P4/5 and controversial, ZR1-based, Stile Bertone Mantide. What does this Jalopnik-reading young sports car designer have to say?

The Shanghai Auto Show seems like a distant dream now. We laughed. we cried. We swear we got lead poisoning. Below we've compiled the very best of our exclusive international Shanghai coverage. Enjoy the Sinogasm.

Dongfeng, makers of the awesome Crazy Soldier Hummer Clone, brought this militarized version of their minivan to Shanghai this week. Is there a Chinese version of the A-Team?

Build Your Dreams, or BYD, rolled out and dropped the top on their new B8 convertible Mercedes SL-lookalike. We cracked open a fortune cookie and it said someone's gonna die dramatically in this thing.

Lifan Motors rolled out their ridiculous MINI Cooper clone today in Shanghai. Different color roof? Check. Roundish Mini-like headlamps? Check. Cute styling? Check. Crazy, hand-painted Fenghuang on the side? Check.

Prior to the Shanghai Auto Show, Porsche wanted to showboat a little. Their idea? Lift a Porsche Panamera to the 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center. In an elevator.

In the back of the GM booth at the Shanghai Auto Show was this gem, the Chevy Cruze WTCC concept, which previews an upcoming racer based on GM's new global small car, the Chevy Cruze.