BYD To Make R/C Cars
The previous BYD F3 was known as a more than blatant copy of the Toyota Corolla. Many buyers pay a small extra fee to have (fake) Toyota badges affixed, making the F3 nearly indistinguishable from the...
View ArticlePanther Love Makes Blind – And You’ll Be Glad You Are
Carnewschina spotted this Panther with a – shall we say – unique paint scheme in Shanghai. Black was not enough for this Town Car. Gold was not enough for this Town Car. It needed to be orange-gold on...
View ArticleCarnewschina: Carbuzz Is A Bunch Of Thieves
Popular wisdom says that China is a bunch of thieves with utter disregard for intellectual property. Any good, or even half good idea gets immediately stolen in China. In a man bites dog twist on the...
View ArticleCarbuzz Builds Chinese Firewall To Lock Out Lone Dutchman
Man on a mission: Tycho at the Beijing Auto Show Yesterday, we reported about Carbuzz purloining content from Carnewschina, and that it is continuing to do so despite vows of repentance. This morning,...
View ArticleTycho’s Illustrated History Of Chinese Cars: How China Bought Off The U.S. In...
I came across this vehicle in a parking lot in Beijing. It is a Ford Tempo GL. The Tempo was made in the US from 1984 until 1994, the white car in the parking lot was a second generation Tempo,...
View ArticleSex And The Single Cayman: Wronged Customer Shames Porsche With Half-Naked Girls
From the Only In China blotter: A customer who did not receive the service he expected for his Cayenne used sex to drive home his point in a photogenic way. A Chinese man threw body-painted girls into...
View ArticleFake In China: Shaanxi Hearts Escalade
Members of the Chinese car industry are busy hiring foreign engineers and designers. That trend apparently has not reached China’s Shaanxi Province yet. The province is home to state-owned...
View ArticleChinese Overload!
Tycho de Feyter, who blogs about Chinese cars in Carnewschina.com, is very much concerned about the well-being of his Chinese compatriots. So much, that he tracks the overlo9ading of vehicles. This...
View ArticleFake In China: China Copies Bikini Car Wash, Needs More Displacement
Forget Mao suits: “Chinese youngsters know Justin Bieber, hamburgers and Middle East warfare,” reports the culturally clued-in Carnewschina. “They also know this thing called ‘Bikini Car Wash’, many...
View ArticleFake In China: Lamborghini Diablo Goes To Hell
Remember the DIY Lamborghini? In a garage somewhere in the less picturesque parts of Beijing, a man built a Lamborghini Diablo replica, fiberglass on hand-welded frame. No industrious Chinese will...
View ArticleNew Trends In Chinese Commercial Vehicles: Ragged Top Heavy Trucks
Tycho of Beijing’s Carnewschina is onto a rapidly trending phenomenon among the big boys of China: Heavy trucks with convertible tops. It appears to be an aftermarket mod that is not always strictly...
View ArticleCultural Revolution! China Gets New Santana And New Jetta! Brazil Next?
Some thirty years later, China will finally get a new Santana. Here it is, brought to you by our friends at Carnewschina. In case it looks familiar, Carnewschina tells us that the new Santana is...
View ArticleFake In China: Destruction Of Bogus Taxi Fleet Ordered
Black taxis are a menace, in China and elsewhere. The criminal taxi element and Chinese rip-off artists joined forces and created a whole fleet of fake taxis, Carnewschina reports. The regulation...
View ArticleBYD Launches Remote Controlled Car
BYD’s F3 received worldwide acclaim for being a Corolla ripoff. When the new F3 was announced at the Beijing Auto Show, Carnewschina wrote: “The new F3 is design-wise slightly better than the old BYD...
View ArticleBig Brute F650 Super Duties Invade China – After Paying Super Duty
Carnewschina spotted this looooooooooooog Ford F650 streeeeeeeeetch in front of a swank Beijing hotel. This is a good place to spot outrageous cars in China, sometimes, it feels as if they get...
View ArticlePictures From The Chengdu Motor Show. The What?
“A model poses beside a car by Beijing-Hyundai during the 15th Chengdu Motor Show (CDMS) in Chengdu City, southwest China’s Sichuan Province,” writes China’s state-owned Xinhua news agency under a...
View ArticleMore Pictures From The Chengdu Motor Show. Some NSFW, But Thou Shallt Not...
We continue our coverage of the 15th Chengdu Motor Show, brought to you courtesy of China coverer extraordinaire Tycho de Feyter of Carnewschina. “The BMW M6 Coupe, decked out in China’s national...
View ArticleChengdu Sings Ode To Joe
It looks like news of the sacking of Joel Ewanick has not reached China. Or at least not Chengdu. This yellow Chevrolet Camaro with a giant Manchester United sticker was spotted at the Chengdu Motor...
View ArticleChengdu Motor Show: White, Brown, And Black Lincolns Are In Fact Grey
A few days ago, an anonymous source told us that Lincolns have been in China for years, and that Ford won’t admit it. Ford said they probably were grey imports. Before the Chengdu Motor Show opened...
View ArticleChengdu Motor Show: Communist Government Blasts Near-Naked Booth Babes (NSFW...
The Chinese government reprimanded organizers of the Chengdu Motor Show for showing way too much flesh than what’s appropriate for a harmonious society. The exhibitionist exhibits were all foreign. A...
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