About the History of Cars in China
Today we have a Tianjin Sanfeng TJ6481AJQ3, living out its remaining days as someone’s house in Yinchuan. The once pretty Sanfeng was in a very sorry state with all sorts of patchwork repairs to keep it watertight. Continue reading “Spotted in China: Tianjin Sanfeng TJ6481AJQ3”
Today we have something very special for you, a Sanjiang-Renault Espace.
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Today we share with you a very unique car, the Dongfeng Little Prince.
Today we share with you the Chinese made Austin Maestro. Not the Maestro van or the Frankenstein Montego/Maestro van, but the original hatchback on which they were all based. I found this car in Luoyang, Henan Province in April of this year.
Continue reading “Spotted in China: FAW Jiefang CA6400UA, the Chinese made Austin Maestro”
Today we discuss one of the icons of the Chinese automotive world – The Buick GL8.
Continue reading “The Buick GL8, an unexpected American success story in China”
Here we have the extremely rare Montego faced FAW CA6440UA. I found this particular car in Suzhou in late 2015. I’ve discussed technical details regarding the CA6440UA before in a previous article here, so please refer to it for more detailed information and sources. This article is more like a gallery.
Continue reading “The other FAW CA6440UA, a Chinese made Austin Montego Van.”
This is a 1998 Yi Zheng Li Ming YQC6460NL.
Li Ming was a name given to cars manufactured by the Yi Zheng Automobile Factory in Yi Zheng city in Jiangsu province. There were quite a few Li Ming products made in the latter half of the 20th century and we will cover more of those in a later post.
Continue reading “The Liming YQC6460NL, a Chinese wagon with a Japanese face”
This is a 2010 Buick Lacrosse Hybrid. Back in 2010 Shanghai hosted the World Expo and in an effort to improve its taxi fleet a lot of money was spent by the taxi companies to buy new cars. They initially bought 3,650 Volkswagen Tourans and 350 Buick Lacrosse Hybrids to be put into service. I remember clearly reading articles about all sorts of New Energy Vehicles being brought into service before expo, including Super Capacitor buses! The Lacrosse Hybrids were part of this push for a “green” expo. Actually they should have said blue because they shut down a lot of factories in and around Shanghai during the Expo and we had endless amounts of lovely blue sky. Those were the days…
Continue reading “The Buick Lacrosse Hybrid Taxi, a short lived Expo dream”
This magnificent machine is an MG 7L. For those of you who don’t know, when MG Rover went bust Nanjing Auto and SAIC were in a heated battle to get the brands. Nanjing ended up getting the most and made cars based on the 75/ZT badged as MG’s and SAIC obtained enough from the sale to make Rover Roewe badged cars based on the same platform. So yes, at one point there were two different companies making essentially the same car just 300km apart. Eventually someone realized this was a bit silly and SAIC ended up buying Nanjing Auto in 2007.
Continue reading “The MG 7L, a Chinese take on a British classic”
