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MINI Clubman Rickshaws running around Beijing

Click above for more shots of the MINI Clubman Rickshaws The rickshaw is a time-honored method of transportation in China. While the vehicles were initially pulled around by men on foot, the pedal-powered versions have grown much more popular in recent years and are a symbol of Chinese culture. When Beijing MINI needed an interesting way to communicate that the Clubman model was being introduced in Chinese, especially in light of all the media attention on the Olympics, it back-halved a slew of new Clubmans, mounted a pedicab front-end and ... Read more →

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 Noah Joseph

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. ...

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: 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 208: Geely Tiger GT concept steals the show 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of the Geely Tiger GT concept Of all the cars being debuted at this year's Auto China show in Beijing, most of them are from one company: Chinese domestic automaker Geely. The brand has over 20 some debuts, but most are ho-hum little econoboxes that Chinese ...

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: 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. ...

No car repairs or painting in Beijing until after Olympics 1 year ago on Autoblog

The city of Beijing has drawn widely-publicized controversy due to its poor air-quality leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympic games. In fact, the air pollution is at least two to three times higher than levels deemed safe by the World Health Organization at this very moment. To ease the minds of the ...

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 ...

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: Geely GT concept to debut 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a gallery of the Geely GT concept The 2008 Beijing Motor Show will play host to the usual assortment of real automakers' wares, direct knock-offs of said automakers' wares, and a few concepts and production vehicles of genuine interest beyond comedic value. We'll count the Geely GT ...






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