Chana Mini Truck on the Kangding to Dégé road We now leave Kangding to undertake a strenuous 14h and 586km / 364 miles bus journey to the small town of Dégé, the closest to the Tibetan province I am allowed to reach as a foreigner without a special permit. This is…
VW Jetta Taxi After Chengdu, we are now flying 325km / 200 miles south-west to Kangding, still in the Sichuan province. This is the 8th stop in our 2016 Chinese adventures after Beijing, Xining in the Qinghai province, the Chinese car dealerships of Xining, Tongren, Xiahe in the Gansu province, the mountain road back from Xiahe to Xining and Chengdu in…
Chengdu street scene This is the 7th instalment in our 2016 Chinese adventures after Beijing, Xining in the Qinghai province, the Chinese car dealerships of Xining, Tongren, Xiahe in the Gansu province and the mountain road back from Xiahe to Xining. We are now flying south-east to Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province and home to…
Snow covered the surrounding mountains overnight. After two days in Xiahe in the Gansu province, it's time to take on the bus trip back to Xining for further Chinese adventures. One full day of snow completely transformed the landscape to the point that the 7-hour return trip is worth a…
Great Wall Wingle 6 in Xiahe This is the 5th stop in our 2016 Chinese adventures after Beijing, Xining, the Chinese car dealerships of Xining and Tongren. There is only 107 km / 66 miles east to Xiahe across the border in the Gansu province, but it takes over 3 hours because we drive through…
Sulky boy and VW Jetta in Tongren, Qinghai province This is the 4th stop in our 2016 Chinese adventures after Beijing, Xining and the Chinese car dealerships of Xining. We travel 165km south to the small town of Tongren (pronounced "Toungjen"), still in the Qinghai province. The road from Xining…
Baojun sold 320.000 units of the 560 in the past 12 months. * See the Top 75 All China-made brands, Top 465 models and Top 70 LCVs by clicking on the title * Now updated with LCV data courtesy of Chinese consultancy outlet Cedars. Faced with a declining car market, last October Chinese government…
The Great Wall Wingle 5 is the best-selling pickup in China. * See the Top 55 best-selling models by clicking on the title * Thanks to a partnership with Chinese consultancy outlet Cedars, we can share with you today detailed sales data for Light Commercial Vehicles in China with complete Minivan, Pickup and Mini…
Huanghai N2 After exploring the cars of Xining, we now go on a tour of the small Chinese car dealerships of the capital of the Qinghai province, the ones specifically located along the few blocks near the intersection of Bowen and Baiyi Lu. The photos give you an idea of which models are…
Xining Railway Station After traversing the Australian Outback to Birdsville, it's now time to resume our annual Chinese exploration. This article launches our new annual series of Photo Reports for China. In 2014 we travelled to the extreme West of the country to the Xinjiang Uyghur province all the way to the border…
* See the June 2016 Top 393 All China-made models and Top 70 brands here * Although Chinese June sales fuelled up 18%, this month of the year is traditionally slower in terms of novelties coming onto the market. After 9 all-new China-made nameplates made their first appearance in the May ranking, this…
Launched in April, the Changan CX70 sells 10.058 units in June. * See the Top 70 All China-made brands and Top 393 All models by clicking on the title * A year ago, the Chinese light vehicle market was going through its first monthly year-on-year decline in over 6 years. June 2016…
Pickup trucks are seeing their first double-digit gains in 3 years in China. * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title * As part of a partnership with Chinese consultancy outlet Cedars, we can share with you today Light Commercial Vehicle detailed sales data for China with complete…
BSCB interviewed Laurens van den Acker at the Beijing Auto Show last April. At the Beijing Auto Show 2016, I had the privilege of interviewing Laurens van den Acker, Senior Vice President of Renault Corporate Design since 2009. Laurens is responsible for all the latest Renault designs, including the Kwid, Twingo, Clio, Captur, Megane,…
Geely Emgrand GS * See the May 2016 Top 396 All China-made models and Top 70 brands here * With the light vehicle market up a very dynamic 11% in May, the constant flow of new models hitting Chinese dealership isn't about to slow down. Another illustration this month: no less than…