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China’s mushrooming car market was flooded with by a tsunami of new cars in 2009, Xinhua reports via Gasgoo. A record 221 new models were introduced last year.
Auto sales in China are projected to have surged 44 percent to 13.5m units last year. Chinese automakers are expected to launch about 100 more new models in 2010.
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Other than the upgrades on the Brilliance BS6 for safety reasons, I get the impression that Chinese vehicles never live beyond one model year. You never hear about “facelifts” or “updates” to models already out (like what you’d see here in the states with designs lasting about five years). Just a new sedan, a new compact, a new SUV, a new minivan… And if so, I could certainly see how the Chinese companies have a reputation for low quality when they’re always spending time designing the next car and not spending time perfecting the one already out on the market.
Maybe I’m just completely wrong and they in fact do have traditional design generations like every other company. But it seems new designs are popping out left and right and you never hear about the vehicle a second or third time after its introduction.
VT8919: If you follow the link to the source, you’ll read “A majority of them are upgraded models; only less than 50 are all-new one.” However, from more than 30 years of advertising experience for the auto industry, I’m trained to call even the slightest facelift a “new” car. There is “new” and “all new” ….
Wasn’t this like they US automotive heyday in the 50s/60s where each and every year there was the “new 19xx ….” appearing every September? Individual model years were quite distinct even during a continuous development run (like the famous tri-5 Chevies or 67/68/69 Camaro – all similar proportions but quite different detailing, and the 69 was physically larger, but essentially the same vehicle/platform).
That car looks terrible.
Even the Mei Tian and gao xing ripoffs of the Pathfinder looked better than this. I rented one while I was in Shanghai. Not great – but not horrible.
In case anyone was wondering where Americas prosperity (and jobs) went…