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REPORT: Mitsuoka to offer unique rental cars in Japan, also plans to sell in China

Mitsuoka, the Japanese car company whose mission seems to be hoarding all the ugly in the entire world and using it to design automobiles, will expand into Japan's rental car market and offer its luxury range in China. Japanese drivers will be able to rent the Orochi for ¥25,000 ($279 US) from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., or for three whole days for ¥45,000 ($501 US). They can also sport the Himiko for ¥20,000 ($223 US) for those nine hours, or ¥36,000 ($401 US) for 72 hours. The sea monster-faced Orochi will also spearhead ... Read more →

Shanghai 2009: Peugeot RD Concept Jeremy Korzeniewski

Last year at the Beijing Motor Show, Peugeot announced a contest for budding car designers asking them to "Imagine the Peugeot in the Worldwide Megalopolis of tomorrow." By all accounts, the ...

Maximum Bob talks about Invicta and how not to rebadge cars John Neff

Click above for high-res gallery of the Buick Invicta Concept GM Vice Chairman Bob "Maximum" Lutz published a new post today on the corporate GM Fastlane Blog that addresses the automaker's newest ...

Autoblog Chinese wraps up 2008 Beijing Motor Show John Neff

We're proud as peacocks of our blogging brothers at Autoblog Chinese who, in blogging parlance, tore the 2008 Beijing Motor Show a new one. We showed you just a sampling of the dozens of cars they ...

Beijing 2008: Hyundai debuts facelifted Elantra John Neff

Click above to view high-res gallery of the 2008 Hyundai Elantra in China As we learned last week, Hyundai used the occasion of Auto China in Beijing to debut its slightly refreshened Elantra. Its ...

Beijing 2008: 1st Bugatti Veyron in China sells for $3.6m 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click to view the Bugatti Veyron's unveiling in Beijing If you were looking for the new epitome of capitalism's slow-but-steady takeover of communism in China, we've got it for you right here. Bugatti brought its million-euro hyper-car this year to the Auto China show in Beijing, drawing hoards of ...

Beijing 2008: From Jeep clones to this? Beijing 700R concept 1 year ago on Autoblog

It turns out that the Geely GT didn't corner the market on coupe concepts at Auto China 2008. Beijing Automotive -- whose Wrangler-style B40 you saw earlier -- is also on the case with its 700R coupe concept, a clean and attractive design with some interesting details. An accent line angles upward, ...

Beijing 2008: Land Wrangler? It's the Beijing B40! 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the Beijing B40 The basic Jeep shape has essentially carried forward from World War II to the present day. It has also been replicated many times over by automakers scattered around the world, and variations on the theme continue to appear. The Chinese auto ...

Beijing 2008: Brilliance BS4 wagon is good looking... no BS! 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the Brilliance BS4 Wagon The Brilliance BS4 sedan is a pretty good-looking car, so it stands to reason that its wagon variant would be easy on the eyes as well. Unveiled in Beijing, the BS4 wagon is indeed a snazzy-looking, ostensibly practical machine. Power ...

Beijing 2008: Volkswagen Lavida meets its home audience 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the VW Lavida for China Shanghai Volkswagen developed the new VW Lavida in China, for China. Now it's made its big debut before the home-market audience in Beijing. Stylistically, the made-in-China design looks oddly dated, quite frankly. The petal-shaped head- ...

Beijing 2008: Nissan unveils new Teana and Teana XV 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the Nissan Teana and Teana XV Back in October of last year, Nissan unveiled the Intima concept at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show. The large front-wheel-drive sedan previewed the styling for the new Teana (above, dark) and more luxurious Teana XV (above, light) that ...

Geely TX4 LTC show car turns London taxi into hot rod. Sort of. 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for a gallery of the Geely TX4 LTC Geely builds the LTI TX4 under license, and naturally, it's showing off the popular London taxi at its display in Beijing. The standard TX4's kind of vanilla though, so to grab showgoers' attention, the automaker has also plopped an electric blue "hot ...

Beijing 2008: Roewe 550 debuts, still good lookin' 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the Roewe 550 Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation debuted the Roewe 550 over the weekend at the Auto China show in Beijing, and it joins the 750 in a lineup that was designed and engineered entirely in Britain. For those who don't remember the story, a ...

Beijing 2008: Geely CE concept makes its debut 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the Geely CE Ok, the Geely car parade at Beijing is officially in full swing. One of the good-looking renderings we posted during the runup to the show was of the CE concept, a small hatchback that looked like it could just as easily be an Acura that's slumming ...

Beijing 2008: HongQi SUV concept doesn't look like a photochopped MKT 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for a high-res gallery of the HonQi SUV FAW's premium HonQi (Red Flag) division has unveiled its V12 luxury SUV concept in Beijing. While photoshopped images based on the Lincoln MKT concept surfaced on a Chinese website ahead of the show, the actual vehicle on display looks nothing ...

Beijing 2008: Guangzhou Honda's Linian concept shows where new brand is headed 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Linian concept Last Summer, we told you how Guangzhou Honda planned to develop a separate, China-only brand. Today in Beijing, the first step in that direction is on display in the form of the Linian concept. Specifics are hard to come by, but according to ...

Beijing 2008: Citroen C2 Kappa jogs onstage 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for a high-res gallery of the C2 Kappa Now that the 2008 Beijing Motor Show is underway, we're getting a chance to see how a lot of those sketches and renderings we saw ahead of the festivities translate into actual cars. One of the concepts we were curious about was the collaborative ...

Beijing 2008: Porsche unveils the Cayenne Turbo S 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for a hi-res gallery of the new Cayenne Turbo S Porsche says that Asian and Eastern European market demand for ridiculously high performance SUVs has resulted in a new addition to the Cayenne range. After a brief respite following the introduction of the current-gen Cayenne, the Turbo S ...

Beijing 2008: Live reveal of the Buick Invicta concept 1 year ago on Autoblog

On the eve of the Beijing Motor Show ,General Motors Chairman Rick Wagoner and Design VP Ed Welburn along with their Chinese colleagues unveiled the Buick Invicta concept. Your regular Autoblog team didn't make the trek to China for this show, but our cohorts at Autoblog Chinese showed up for GM's ...

VIDEO: Buick Invicta designers talk about their new concept 1 year ago on Autoblog

General Motors has just put a video featuring the designers of the new Buick Invicta concept discussing their new creation. The video is part of a series of "Studio Stories" episodes that GM has been producing over the past year. Exterior design lead Justin Thompson and other members of the team ...

Beijing 2008: Buick Invicta Concept debuts, say hello to next LaCrosse 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the Buick Invicta Concept Buick has dusted off the Invicta name, which hasn't been used by the brand since 1959, for its newest concept that debuted today at the Beijing Motor Show. The mid-size sedan previews the look of what U.S. customers will get with the ...

Beijing 2008: Officially Official - It's the 2009 Audi Q5 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Audi Q5 For months now we've seen spy photos and heard speculation about Audi's new Q5 CUV. Now, we finally have the official news on the latest entry from Ingolstadt. Unlike its big brother the Q7, the Q5 doesn't share an architecture with a VW model. The ...

Lifan 320 MINI ripoff to debut at Beijing Motor Show 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for photo gallery of the Lifan 320 The production version of Lifan's egregious MINI clone is set to debut this weekend at the Beijing Motor Show. The Lifan 320 as it's called has an 87-horsepower 1.3L underhood that drives the front wheels alone. We're sure that Lifan will point to the ...

Beijing '08 Preview: 2010 Mercedes-Benz GLK 350 to debut in China 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above to view high-res gallery of the 2010 GLK 350 Mercedes-Benz debuted the GLK last January at the Detroit Auto Show in the form of two lightly veiled concepts: the Townside and the Freeside. Until now, the only place we've glimpsed the production version is on the set of Sex and the City. ...

Beijing '08 Preview: Changfeng Qi Ling CP1A 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for photo gallery Imagine a Hyundai Elantra minus the swoopy body line and with a more assertive, Opel-ish beak, and you have the Changfeng Qi Ling CP1A that'll be unveiled this weekend at the Beijing Motor Show. According to thetycho.com, the CP1A designation is simply a code name, and ...

Beijing '08 Preview: Roewe 550 unveiled, and it's impressive 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for photo gallery Every now and then, you have to eat crow. This is one of those times. Early spy shots of the Roewe 550 had me thinking it was nothing special -- and far from beautiful. Subsequent spy shots cast it in a better light, and now, with the release of official images of the ...

Beijing '08 Preview: BYD e6 electrifies family hauling 1 year ago on Autoblog

When Auto China (a.k.a. the Beijing Motor Show) opens next week, BYD will pull the wraps off its e6, an EV crossover/MPV with a front end similar in appearance to the JDM Honda Odyssey. Unlike Honda's people-mover, the e6 runs exclusively on batteries. Its operating range is stated as being 300 km ...

Beijing '08: Buick Invicta concept to be 4-door coupe 1 year ago on Autoblog

During a pre-Beijing Motor Show conference call today, Buick provided some more hints about the new Invicta concept that it will reveal this weekend in China. We've had a couple of teases about what to expect and won't actually be seeing any detailed images until Saturday, but what we do know now ...

Buick releases second Invicta Concept teaser 1 year ago on Autoblog

General Motors has been enjoying some serious success in China with its range of Buick models, and it hopes to continue that trend with the unveiling of the Invicta concept at the Auto China show in Beijing. We've already seen one teaser shot of the Invicta in profile and this newest image (on the ...

Beijing '08 Preview: Nissan Livina C-Gear set to debut 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for a gallery of the current Nissan Livina range The Nissan Livina "world car" will get the allroad-ish treatment next week when the new C-Gear variant bows at Auto China in Beijing. The C-Gear follows the Livina Geniss/Grand Livina minivan and Livina hatch to market, and it's ...

Nissan Intima Teana brochure leaked out 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a gallery of the Nissan Teana brochure. The Scoopers of Cars have gotten their hands on a scanned brochure of the production version of the Nissan Intima concept, and it seems that in addition to getting a mass-market makeover, it will also be sporting a Teana badge when it goes on ...

Beijing '08 Preview: Buick unveils updated 2009 Excelle for China 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 Buick Excelle Long-time readers of Autoblog will recall occasional mentions of the Buick Excelle, a small but luxuriously appointed Buick that's only sold in China. It's what the Cadillac Cimarron never was, and the Chinese love it. The little Buick that ...

Nissan teases production Intima ahead of Beijing show 1 year ago on Autoblog

Nissan's presence at the Beijing Motor Show (or 2008 Auto China, if you're kicking it new school) will apparently be marked with the unveiling of the production version of the Intima sedan, originally shown in concept form at last year's Tokyo Motor Show. The teaser above lends credence to spy ...

Beijing '08 Preview: Geely CE Concept 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for a photo gallery of the Geely CE concept Via Autoblog Chinese, the parade of Beijing-bound debuts continues. Today we've got another one from Geely, which seems to be working to establish itself as a style leader in a sea of Chinese cars, the looks of which range from the vanilla to ...

Beijing '08 Preview: Nissan Intima to make production debut? 1 year ago on Autoblog

The Nissan Intima concept that was unveiled during last year's Tokyo Motor Show looked very complete. Now we know why. Spy photos suggest that a production version of the Intima will make its world debut next month at the Beijing Motor Show. As you can see from the above photos, the covered car's ...

Beijing '08 Preview: FAW B131 Sedan 1 year ago on Autoblog

The FAW Besturn is a Chinese sedan based on the current-gen Mazda6, and while it won't go down in the annals of memorable car designs, its certainly not offensive either inside or out. Come next month at the Beijing Motor Show, FAW is expected to introduce a new, still-unnamed 4-door that Autoblog ...

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