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Look at the spy shots of Volkwagen Lavida, which was apparently there for instructions to salesmen and women for the autoshow. One of them had a camera and managed to shoot a few pictures.
Volkwagen Lavida is VW’s China-only sedan that will go into production this summer. The Lavida will be built in China by [...]

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The Chevrolet Beat concept has been spied on road testing in China.
The Chevrolet Beat was announced at the New York Auto Show in 2007 with GM saying it would be needed for replacement current Chevrolet Spark (Daewoo Matiz).
The Chevy Beat is certainly far less dowdy than the Spark, which is also sold [...]

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Looking for a new cheap sedan? Take a look at photos from Moscow auto show, called “Interauto-2007″:
Meet Geely Otaka. Price - $12,000.

Meet a Chery Karry. “Karry”, not a “care”

Inside view:

Chery QQ6, front view:

Chery QQ6 sedan:

If you think it’s a Chevrolet Lacetti, you are stupid american (Euro) looser:) It’s a cool chinese clone from BYD:

Are [...]

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The German Automobile Association ADAC was released results of a new tests for the China import. The result is catastrophic: the Brilliance BS6 sedan was completely destroyed. Only there were one of five stars with the crash according to the strict EuroNCAP rules. ???Only the LandWind was worse???, says General German Automobile Association speaker Maximilian [...]

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The president of MG Motors North America/Europe, Duke Hale, was interviewed about Nanjing Automobile’s plans for the MG brand, both in the U.S. and in Europe.
Highlights of the interview include:
- the manufacturing/R&D facility in Oklahoma is definitely going ahead
- Nanjing will build three MG sedan models in China
- MG Motors will build a modified version [...]

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The China-based Shanghai Automotive will pay BMW about $22 million to use the Rover name. Rover logo will placed on its version of the Rover 75 sedan.
New Rover badge has been designed, and a press conference announcing the deal with BMW is scheduled for Aug. 22. The first Chinese-made Rovers have been testing in [...]

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Chinese carmaker Chery Automobile announced that chery’s two car, A5 with a 1.6-liter engine and A6 with a 2.0-liter engine, would be assembled in Egypt. The lines were under the cooperation with Daewoo Motors Egypt (DME). According to the agreement, DME would pay for the use of Chery’s technologies and brand. The assembled Chery [...]

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