The Citroen C-Triomphe (sedan version of the C4 hatchback) pictured above was one of the moderated serious causalities of the harmful 7.8-magnitude earthquake this hit vital China beforehand presently month. Nevertheless, it is impressive –and horrifying at the same time- the present the owner (?) of the car was remarkably able to push it on the road even though the heavy damages.
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The 2008 Beijing Motor Show plans to play host to the normal assortment of real automakers’ wares, direct knock-offs of brought up automakers’ wares, and a few concepts and production vehicles of genuine mortgage out of comedic value. We’ll count the Geely GT surrounded by that the preceding group. Details are sparse at the small — we have no indication how the proposed powertrain consists of, for ideal — but Geely’s coupe underlying knew these a year seems as if it is to be seriously a large plethora of ambitious and voluptuous as opposed to the Mybo II 2-door establish car it displayed survive year in Shanghai. The Mybo II did not have a total lot making supplied on in the looks as if it’s department except for a peculiar own to manage the latest had us foretelling it to transmute to a giant robot at any moment.

The Geely GT mashes up a variety of seems such as it is — we see selected Maybach Exceleo, Ferrari 612, Nissan GT-R, and assorted Peugeot in there. The end result is slightly that we should actually be interested to see in person, as the preview photos (or are real estate renderings?) demonstrate. We is planning to not be there, but we can throw you the lead a house photos via our friends at Autosblogusa when things kick off next month.

SAIC’s Rowe kind (nee Rover) is set to formally unveil its new 550 sedan in Beijing upcoming month. The sedan’s styling is especially mainstream save for its unfortunate front fascia. Those undersized, oddly-shaped headlights easily look truly out of place. That said, it is not as if we are the aspiration market, and it is are expected to be one of the a good deal more valuable Beijing Motor Show debuts. According to China Car Times, the 550 might be powered by the same 1.8L turbo discovered beneath the hood of the Roewe 750 (the re-engineered Rover 75). We’ll suffer a multitude of photos and !no! things via the crew at Autoblog Chinese when the car is unveiled subsequently month.

The Nissan Intima idea which was unveiled in go on year’s Tokyo Motor Show looked outstandingly complete. Now we knew why. Spy photos hint too a generation version of the Intima could put up its nation debut then period at the Beijing Motor Show. As you can see out of the above photos, the gone over car’s part glass and taillamp design with out a doubt appear to emulate individuals of the Intima demonstrate car. As portion of the transformation, however, the generation ride looks like it’s to experience lost the clever trunk-to-bumper transition such a the idea displayed, in its place wearing a posterior such a protrudes a small amount of greater amount of and characteristics traditional consume outlets. Assuming their all comes to pass, the Intima may be Nissan’s flagship sedan in China. More later period when situations get underway in Beijing.

[Source: Autoblog Chinese]

Today we have got a new one of Geely, that looks like it’s to be attempting to demonstrate itself as a style leader in a sea of Chinese cars, the looks like it’s of that period of the vanilla to the bizarre. The renderings you see right here provide evidence the Geely CE concept, a compressed 5-door hatch who clearly has the appears to attractiveness to folks outside of Geely’s piece of real estate market. If Geeley is able to shoot now car to creation and be it guaranteed a sufficient amount of to balance Western bubble burst test criteria (something we hold yet to see on everything remotely resembling a continuing cause based on information from the Chinese manufacturers), it is happening to obtain a lot of noise, in essence in Europe at which a low-priced, stylish, compressed hatch desire their should cash in on similar to french fries at McDonalds. From how we have observed so far, Geely’s 18-car Beijing parade is setting itself up to be a stylistic quantum leap throughout select of its ridiculous outside of concepts and mundane present offerings.

Nissan’s appearance at the Beijing Motor Show (or 2008 Auto China, if you are kicking it new school) serves to apparently be marked amongst the unveiling of the generation version of the Intima sedan, originally proven in underlying thought compose at persist year’s Tokyo Motor Show. The teaser above lends credence to spy photos procured by Autoblog Chinese the present contended the coupe-ish sedan partially uncovered on its way to or based on what i read in a photo shoot. The Intima will be able to be positioned as a new flagship ideal for Nissan in China, but surprisingly, it does not carry the same forked headlamp real estate deal overly originally put up its debut on the 2009 Maxima and is imminent to infect the rest of Nissan’s lineup in ages to come.

[Source: Nissan China via WCF]

Long-time readers of Autoblog are able to bring to mind occasional mentions of the Buick Excelle, a miniature but luxuriously appointed Buick that is clearly purchased in China. It’s how the Cadillac Cimarron never was, and the Chinese sttink it. The small amount of Buick so are able to is going to get updated for 2009 and might offer its debut to the Chinese customers at the Beijing Motor Show in a couple of weeks. It parts a facelift the brings its visiage greater amount of in-line providing the flagship example for Buick in China, the Holden Statesman-based Park Avenue. While a great deal smaller, the Excelle performs produce off an air of richness that is unforeseen wanting to its underpinnings. It’s rooted on the Chevy/Daewoo Lacetti platform, that as well occurs to underpin the Suzuki Reno in the U.S. Small world, huh? Changes to the Excelle’s exterior arrive to record a few additional creases up front, an updated rear end in chosen great sculpting obtainable the shoulder succession and an improved interior. As fine as the Excelle appears, though, we are not assured U.S. purchasers are pretty anticipated for a Buick as this.

[Source: Carscoop]

The Scoopers of Cars experience gotten the hands on a scanned brochure of the creation version of the Nissan Intima concept, and it looks like it’s overly in addition to becoming a mass-market makeover, it would additionally be sporting a Teana badge when it goes on turn over in Japan. The transition based on what i read in thought to generation has kept on uncharacteristically sort to the Teana, provided the tightly drawn headlamps, plummeting C-pillar and elongated tail lamps surviving, but the suicide doors and 22nd century interior ought to undergo been heard scrapped due to feasibility issues. We’ll get our mostly official taste of the Teana when it is ultimately revealed on April 20th at the Beijing Motor Show.

There are select conditions we may never comprehend almost Eastern cultures. Somewhere minimal on the input comes the concept such a miniature hatchbacks give the impression right providing tiny trunks. Take for model that Mazda2 sedan, that the Japanese automaker has projected particularly for the Chinese market. The sedan was unveiled at the Guangzhou Auto Show, and joined the hatchback variant in China this moment period amongst cost equivalent to $12,400 for the base 86-hp 1.3 to $16,500 for the fully-loaded 104-hp 1.5.

Like the ironically-named Swift DZire launched by Maruti Suzuki in India, the four-door variant of the Mazda2, albeit significantly reduced gut-wrenching as opposed to the Suzuki, a great deal leaves us scratching our heads. But apparently the Chinese arena demands it. Take note, Ford: we don’t. So please, if and when you discover to shoot us the Mazda2, that has continued the a egregious accomplishment overseas, stay the trunk and offer us the hatch. (Come to guess of it, same goes for the Fiesta.)

[Source: Winding Road]

There’s room for five with motivation coming from a 1.6L four matched with either a 4-speed auto or a 5-speed manual. Don’t expect to see it here — the Livina series of cars isn’t meant for North American consumption. The Chinese-market C-Gear will be produced at the Dongfeng plant in Guangdong province.
[Source: Nissan]