Autodecide

Some Observations about Cars in China

January 19, 2007 on 6:53 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

About a year ago, The Times Online published an article on Chinese Clones (Car Clones)
Invasion of the Chinese clones
I wonder how many of you (readers in China) have seen these cars on the streets of Beijing or Guangzhou….
I personally have seen the Cherry QQ – lots of them in Beijing… They even come in two engine sizes 0.8L and 1.1L — “monster” engines you would say. But for sure they are very cheap.
I have not seen the Red Flag (Hong Qiao) — but it certainly looks like a Roll Royce copy. At any rate, I found the article interesting and since I have had first hand experience with some of the pictured cars, thought to write a post about it.

On the other hand, China is now doing some advanced work too — the first (as far as I know) Chinese electric car — the Xi’an, Shaanxi-based BYD Automobile made F3e
Here is a photo of the car: