Via Guinness World Records: "The most motorised vehicles doing ramp jump crossings in mid air is 4 and was achieved by the challengers from Chery QQ Car Stunts Performance Team (China) at Hengdian World Studios, Zhejiang Province, China, on 14 May 2010. The two cars and two motorcycles were jumping from ramps of different heights, and they "met" in the middle." more ›

Via WSJ: "The Beijing International Auto Show is quickly becoming the center of the global car industry. European luxury brands such as Jaguar, Mercedes, Aston Martin and Lamborghini all brought world-premiere vehicles to the stage in China. WSJ's automotive critic Dan Neil takes a walk through the show and gives us his reactions." more ›

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Now that China has become the world's largest car market, Chinese government officials pursuing quality instead of quantity to make the next great leap forward. more ›

In one of the more bizarre power plays we've heard of in a while, China's Great Wall Motors is accusing Italian car designer Fiat of stealing their business secrets. If you're thinking "wait, isn't it usually the other way around?", you might be interested to know that Fiat had sued GWM two years ago for copying the design of a previous car, suspiciously named the "Panda" (we know, national heritage). The Chinese manufacturer claims that after their faux-Panda was banned in Italy, Fiat illegally infiltrated their engineering center with the purpose of stealing GWM's secrets. Although the attorney for GWM has deigned to specify exactly what secrets were stolen, we have a funny feeling they were more knock offs. After all, they're only asking for 100,000 RMB in reparations, which is suspicious in itself. more ›

This video capturing some classic auto showroom drama was uploaded by an intrepid Youku user and has garnered over 436,000 views in less than a day. The young woman, on hearing that her boyfriend was not going to buy the car, flies into a mad rage, gets behind the steering wheel and attempts to drive off with the car, much to the horror of both boyfriend and salesperson. Worried that his girlfriend might do some real damage to the store, the exasperated boyfriend eventually surrenders and decides to take all the damage upon himself. He whips out his credit card and yells out to his girlfriend saying, "I'm buying it! I'm buying it!" more ›

• The Spring Festival migration has started in earnest, with an estimated 9.2 million railway passengers having already headed home this past weekend. Follow the latest on Xinhua's new "Travel Rush" website.
• Little-known Chinese car manufacturer BYD has upped the ante in the electric car race with the world's first production plug-in hybrid. The F3DM will be unveiled tomorrow at the International Motor Show in Detroit.
• Land disputes are again cropping up in China: villagers in Jilin are forming an independent farmers' union to collect funds from appropriated lands, while the Economist reports on a potentially "revolutionary" land auction outside Beijing that turns out to be "little more than a typical story of a rural official trying to make money from land." The apparent problem in the latter case is that some 50% of the farmers in the area can't provide evidence of their land rights.