Chinese Automakers Only Sold 745 Cars In Europe This Year

We're waiting for the eventual emergence of Chinese automakers as exporters more ominous and less hilarious than they are now. But with just 745 sales in Europe this year (mostly to Italians), they've got a long way to go. [ChinaCarTimes]

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Chinese Carmakers Prepping For 2010 Dakar Rally

Given never ending concerns over Chinese quality, completing the punishing cross-continental Dakar Rally could send the right message. Both Greatwall and Geely are planning to enter the race as a proof-of-competency in vehicles that at least look like Pajeros. [ChinaCarTimes]

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The Top Six Chinese Car Clones

The Top Six Chinese Car ClonesNow that the Beijing Olympics are over and the need to reduce the capital’s smog is gone, Chinese car makers can get back to doing what they do best: copying successful western car designs while cranking out the clones super cheap. We admire China’s style; why fuss over safety, performance or emissions when all… Discuss…
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Great Wall Kunna Electric Concept Unveiled in Beijing, Panda Passenger …

Great Wall, a company largely known as the leading Chinese authority on skillful reuse of intellectual property, has unveiled something that can gently be called unique - the Great Wall Kunna. The Kunna is an all-electric runabout operating on a 48V power system good for about 87 miles at a blazing top speed of 40 MPH. …

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Would You Drive A Chinese Car?

Geely_NL_3.jpgNow that almost everyone would drive a Japanese and now a Korean car, it's worth asking if you all would drive a Chinese car. In fact, given all that's coming out at this year's explosive Beijing Motor Show, it is a harder question than it has been in the past. Though there are questions of quality and originality,…

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Chinese Automakers Go After African Car Market


So what do you do when you can't face the regulatory and marketing hurdles of the US market, but you still want to sell as many of your cheaply manufactured vehicles as possible? Why, you head right on over to Africa like Great Wall Motor Co and take over the European automakers dumping ground for used vehicles.…

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Creation Embodies Charm: The Great Wall Wingle

Wingle.jpgLet's say you're shopping for a big pickup truck for your ranch but just don't like the stuff coming out of the Motor City or the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Well, plop your ten-gallon hat on your head and saddle up one of these here Great Wall Wingles, cowboy! Don't pay no mind to them tenderfoot city boys …

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Fiat Considering Lawsuit Against Great Wall

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The bosses at Fiat are apparently none too pleased with the wily copycats over at Great Wall. The Chinese automaker has aroused the Italians' ire with it's new Peri, which Fiat claims is a virtual copy of its Panda subcompact, and is threatening legal action. Great Wall's got 90 dealerships in the European nation, and …

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