Our eagle-eyed readers will have noticed the number of brands included in our Exclusive Chinese Brands Guide steadily decline over the past month or so. We have indeed refreshed our Guide to reflect the constant streamlining of the Chinese market. We removed over 20 brands from our guide, including Dorcen,…
The Chinese continue to add new brands to an already long list, with 8 additional marques bringing the total up to 199. Notice most of the brands launched this time belong to well known, large manufacturers. This time, additions are Aion - not a subbrand of GAC anymore, Cao Cao…
Today we have updated our exclusive Chinese Brands Guide with 4 new brands. Newcomers are Jaecoo, a Chery brand that will be used overseas and Omoda, also a Chery brand upgrading from sub-brand, although it was already sold as a separate marque in Russia. This means Chery Group now has…
The new Dadao Pickup Today we cleaned up our Exclusive Guide of Chinese brands, which now amounts to 190 brands. Potentially illustrating a streamlining of the Chinese market, we had to remove 17 discontinued brands from our list. These brands include Byton, Byvin, Changhe, Ciwei, Domy, Horki, Hybrid Kinetic, Landwind,…
Today we have updated our Chinese Brands Guide with no less than 7 new brands, and they are all New Energy brands! This brings the total active Chinese brands to 198. BeyonCa was started by Soh Weiming, ex-vice President of Volkswagen Group and current CEO of Renault China. Derry Auto New…
On October 30th, 2010, I wrote the very first article on BSCB, about Luxembourg sales (see below). 12 years and 13,297 articles later, we are still going and in great shape! What began as a way for me to collect in one place all the monthly updates I had been painstakingly recording…
The influx of new Chinese brands seems to be never ending and we have updated our Exclusive Guide to all active Chinese brands with 8 new brands today, lifting its total to 175. Zeekr is a new premium EV brand by Geely that will compete locally with the likes of NIO, Xpeng…
After January 2019 (world car market), April 2019 (Chinese market), April 2020 (Coronavirus impact) and July 2020 (public transport in China), BSCB and I continue our collaboration with French newspaper Le Monde, one of the most important and widely respected newspapers in the world according to Wikipedia. It’s always an honour to appear…
Claire Danes plays bipolar CIA operator Carrie Mathison in Homeland. Exactly a year ago we published an article praising the car choices made when creating the dystopian world of TV Series The Handmaid's Tale, as well as the recreation of of 1969 Los Angeles in the latest Quentin Tarantino flick Once…
After the launch of Dongfeng's new high-end EV brand Voyah a few weeks ago, a new important milestone in the Chinese automotive industry occurred last week. This warrants a new update and confirms the largest new car market in the world isn't slowing down despite the global Covid-19 crisis. Keep…
Daily users on BSCB. Source: Google Analytics Before last Sunday, the most users visiting BestSellingCarsBlog on a single day was 5.852 on 24 August 2019. At the time, BSCB sparked worldwide interest due to a new article detailing the success of the new Suzuki Alto in Pakistan. But last Sunday,…
On July 17, Dongfeng became the first among China's three centrally-administered automakers - and longest-running pillars of the local industry, the other two being FAW Group and Changan, to launch a dedicated high-end EV brand: Voyah. The fruit of two years of secret development, Voyah, in mandarin Lantu (岚图) meaning…
After January 2019 (world car market), April 2019 (Chinese market) and April 2020 (Coronavirus impact), BSCB and I are featured for the 4th time in French newspaper Le Monde, one of the most important and widely respected newspapers in the world according to Wikipedia. It's always an honour to appear in such a…
Our Chinese market expertise has been put to good use once again in what is now an 8th consecutive year of collaboration between BSCB and French car monthly L’Automobile Magazine. Like last year, in 2020 BSCB was given full responsibility for a 20-page Chinese section in what is referred to…
It turns out the "Why Renault failed in China" analysis we published on here on April 25 after a first version appeared on Autoactu.com on April 17 resonated quite strongly in the industry. We received feedback from inside Renault France that the article was being shared internally, but also strong positive…