Karakoram Highway at Bulong Lake (click on any image to enlarge) After Ürümqi and Kashgar, we continue on our adventure through the Xinjiang Uyghur, China's Westernmost autonomous region. Today we take the legendary Karakoram Highway on the Chinese side for 450km between Kashgar (altitude 1.260m) and the Khunjerab Pass on the…
Maxxus G10. There. Now you know a new Chinese brand. I am getting more and more impressed as we go up my list of the most impressive Chinese carmakers at the Beijing Auto Show, now from #15 to #11. This is Part 5 of my Beijing Auto Show coverage, check out…
TagAz has been manufacturing the Chery Tiggo in Russia - rebranded Vortex Tingo. * This is Part 3 of 5 in my series on Chinese carmakers abroad. See also Part 1 (Africa), Part 2 (Latin America), Part 4 (Asia) and Part 5 (Mature markets) * As illustrated in Africa and Latin America, Chinese manufacturers have been working extra-hard…
Brazilian Chery QQ * This is Part 2 of 5 in my series on Chinese carmakers abroad. See also Part 1 (Africa), Part 3 (Eastern Europe), Part 4 (Asia) and Part 5 (Mature markets) * If Chinese carmakers have started exporting to Africa in the early 00′s, they set foot in Latin America even earlier, with JAC starting…
Never had a Japanese model sold as many monthly units in China as the Nissan Sylphy... * See the Top 319 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Sales of passenger cars in China gain a very robust 15% year-on-year in November to 1.63 million units, with the overall…
ZAZ Vida * See the Top 210 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Igor * New car sales in Ukraine are down a painful 22% year-on-year to just 16,640 registrations, reducing the year-to-date gain to 1% on 2012 at 174,260 units. The ZAZ Sens reinforces its year-to-date leadership…
VW Touran * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * This is Part 25 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Report here. After taking you through Beijing streets, on a visit of the Chaoyang car market in Beijing-East, and through a…
The Fiat 126p was the first passenger car to be imported into China in 1979. The direct links to all Historical articles are below. Chinese historical information all the way up to the start of the eighties is now available on Best Selling Cars Blog. This 40 year-period in China is…
Kia Sportage This is Part 24 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Report here. After taking you on a visit of the Chaoyang car market in Beijing, I thought I would share with you a selection of the car brochures I got my…
The VW Lavida is #1 in 2013 thanks to the Gran Lavida... * See the Top 339 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * As is the tradition on BSCB, after looking at the October best-sellers in China, we delve into the year-to-date models ranking a little deeper to…
The Wuling Hongguang is the #1 Passenger Car in China in September. Yep, you read that right. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 65 All-brands & Top 313 All-models! Click on title to see * Finally - I know a lot of you have been waiting for it - I can share…
Geely Emgrand EC7 (South African version shown) * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Igor * As always the month of September is pretty weak in Ukraine at just 14,379 registrations, down 27% year-on-year and bringing the year-to-date total to 157,620 units, now up…
Honda Airwave This is Part 8 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now moving 855km East to Irkutsk, which is 80 km off Lake Baikal. And here again a fascinating car landscape awaits… From roughly 30% of…
Hyundai i30 and Australian Toyota Corolla hatchback * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Now that we have explored in detail the July worldwide sales charts, it's time to go through the year-to-date rankings to extract longer-term trends. The fight for the title of…
Lada Zhiguli * See the Full Photo Report and my estimated Top 10 models by clicking on the title! * Over the last couple of weeks I have been backpacking my way along the Trans-Siberian railway, hopping on and off the train and discovering very different car landscapes along the…