Tag Archives: China

China – 33 million car designers apply to VW


OK, that is stretching it a bit. However there have been 33 million visitors to a Chinese website inviting people to submit idea for future VW models. Of the 119,000 ideas submitted to the “People’s Car Project” (PCP), three have been taken forward and the results are on display at Auto China 2012. These concepts are the Hover Car, the Music Car and the Smart Key. With the Hover Car, an environmentally-friendly two-seater city car which hovers just above the ground, VW is showing a zero-emissions vehicle that could travel along electromagnetic road networks. Hmmm, we remember promises of magnetic levitation transport coming soon – but those promises were made in the 1970s.

China to be No. 1 market for Jaguar Land Rover


Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said that China will soon overtake the UK as its leading market.Sales in China rose to 42,000 – that is almost as many as it sold in China in every previous year put together. In fact JLR now accounts for 20% of all UK exports to China. Depending on how you look at it, that is either a fantastic tribute to JLR management, or a bit of an indictment of UK PLC. What are other big British-based companies doing about the world’s fastest growing market?