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Pure electronic car spontaneously combusted on street in China

XLeung — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 04:42:21 +0000

This spontaneous combustion happened in Hangzhou, China. It’s a pure electronic car from China auto manufacturer Zotype Auto. On January 26, 15 Electronic cars from Zotype officially went into service as taxicabs in Hangzhou. It’s the first time that Electronic car in China was put into commercial use. Before this accident Hangzhou totally had 30 electronic taxicabs in service.

The taxicab was on duty with tow passengers when the accident happen. Luckily no one was injure. The fire was put off in one hour and no doubt the car was completely destroy, only with the steel shell left. According to the driver, he saw back smoking from the rear of the car. He stopped and opened boot and found the smoke was leaked from the battery compartment. In just tow or three minutes the car was completely enclosed by wild flame.

The reason is still under investigation. After the accident, Hangzhou stop the service of all electronic taxicabs.

[Source:auto.huanqiu.com]

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SG Automotive Qisheng V3 clones Lexus RX350

XLeung — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:28:09 +0000

Chinese Auto maker SG Automotive Group recently showed off some pictures of its new SUV Qisheng V3, which give us a chance to see how this car’s product version looks before launch. It’s said the company will bring it to Shanghai Auto Show, which right now is just about ten days ahead. From the pictures we could see the obvious resemblance to Lexus RX350. Without the logo to show its identity, you might think it’s a Lexus RX series car. currently we don’t have much information about its specs. We only know that it will have two versions, respectively equipped with a 2.4L Mitsubishi 4G64S4M and a 2.0L Mitsubishi 4G63S4M engine.

[Source: auto 163]

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Video: Unhappy Chinese owner smashed his Lamborghini car

XLeung — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:21:18 +0000

March 15 is World Consumer Rights day. In China, This story must be among the most eye-catching right-protecting actions on this day: A Lamborghini owner located in Qingdao, China Hired a group of people to smash his Gallardo with sledgehammer, in front of many reporters. A banner on the destroying car writes ‘ to arouse Chinese’s Rights awareness’.

Seemingly the owner wants to help all Chinese people, but the direct reason is to show protest to the unsatisfying service gaining from the auto company. The owner brought this car from Japan, but just a short time after he got it, the car fell to start, so he brought it to a local dealer. But when the car came back to him, he found it became worse. The car still couldn’t start and the some parts got damaged, and no one claimed responsibility for it. In the following days he tried many ways to solve the problem with the auto company but just no use, so he desperately ended up this way to show his fury.

[Souce:163.com,youku.com]

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Video: Hummer H2 made of marble showed in China

XLeung — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:36:53 +0000

We’ve seen China got a BMW car that’s made of bricks, now another amazing stuff of this kind was discovered on this land. It’s Hummer H2 this time. Ok, the title isn’t exactly correct and might have mislead your imagination. This Hummer H2 isn’t a real car at all. So don’t think of cars made of stones, at lest this one, to run on roads. The size is much smaller than a real ones, as you could see clearly for the video. It’s made of marble completely, for exhibition on a marble business fair held in Xiamen, China.

[Source: Youku]

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Video: BMW car made out of bricks,cost as much as a real one

XLeung — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:11:55 +0000

BMW cars are expensive, so a Chinese made one for himself by hands. The main stuff he used to build this BMW car are bricks, which are very cheep to get. The result might be quite a bit out of you expectation. The money he totally spent on it is about 600,000 Yuan ( about $90,900 USD), as much as a real one costs.

of curse this brick car can’t not work. It’s made by an artist, so it’s art, only for exhibition. Hoverer, when this car was reported on Internet, many people criticized very violently, saying this is completely a waste of money. What do you think?

[source: sina]

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Geely Emgrand EC8 the Geely edition Camry to come soon, accepting pre-orders

XLeung — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:59:10 +0000

Geely the Chinese automobile manufacturer is going to bring its new car Emgrand EC8 to the market. To be more specified, the time would be several days after China’s National Day holiday that starts from 1st October lasting 7 days, and pre-orders are accepting in Shanghai. Emgrand is one of Geely’s three car brands, the other two are Gleagle and Englon. The Emgrand EC8 resembles the Toyota’s Camry a lot at design, so Chinese calls this car the Geely edition Camery.

According to reports on Chinese websites, Emgrand EC8 would start at 110,000 Yuan, which is roughly around $16,400 USD.It gets two versions, respectively packing a 2.4L 4G69 MIVEC engine and a 2.0L 4G63 MIVEC engine. The first version gets 159 horsepower and 213 N/m torque, while the latter one gets 136 horsepower and 180 N/m torque.

[Source:163.com]

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BAW B40 clones Jeep Wrangler

XLeung — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:16:45 +0000

BAW, the Beijing Automobile Works co.,Ltd, shows off its off-road style SUV B40 at the ongoing Beijing Auto Show, which lasts from April 23rd to May 2nd. With the first glance at it, the most striking point to you might be its similarity to Jeep Wrangler. B40 was presented by BAW as an concept back in 2008, and two years later its production model finally made debut. It’s off-road style has caught lots of attention from Chinese consumers. It’s expected to come to the market in second quarter this year, but there’s still no information about the price. It packs a 2.4L engine, 5-speed manual transmission, with 141 horse power and 217N/m highest torque at 3000-4000 rpm.

[Source:163 Auto]

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Haima S3 will hit the market soon

XLeung — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:31:40 +0000

The time is very close now for Haima to bring its first SUV S3 to the market. The car will hit the market around the Beijing Car Show in April. It packs a Haima’s own brand engine HA-VVT-2.0, with 5 speed manual transmission. It’s said the company will bring the auto transmission version after this manual transmission version launched some time later. It gets three models launched this time, with price ranging from 120,000 to 150,000 Yuan. We all know Haima’s corporation history with Mazda, and some sort of the Mazda style still can be found in this car’s design.

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BYD to sell electric cars in USA

XLeung — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:04:26 +0000

BYD CEO Wang Chuanfu says on the Detroit Auto Show that BYD is going to launch its electric cars to the USA market in the second half of this year. According to what he said, BYD will focus on developing electric cars, and the USA market is very important to the company.

Reported by netease, electric E6 will be the first car BYD to bring to USA. The price would be slightly higher than 40,000 dollars. The company is also planning to export its plug-in hybrid F6DM to USA in 2011, and sells at a price of less than 30,000 dollars.

BYD S6 spy shots

XLeung — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:44:42 +0000

BYD S6 is one of the BYD cars planned for the upcoming new year 2010 . I guess you may have ever heard of this car before. Back in March this year when the design of this car was just revealed, it caused lots of talks on Internet immediately, because of its similarity to the Lexus RX series. Now 9 months have passed and it seems the launch time has been very close. BYD S6 was spotted while doing driving test with little camouflage. Or we can just say that the car needs no camouflage at all. because there’s almost no change between the real car and the design that’s revealed months ago, and the car looks extremely similar to the Lexus RX350.

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