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"As the transport chief, a third of my time is spent on the ground at construction sites and projects. As you may know, 94% of Yunnan is comprised of hills especially around Nujiang and Diqing. Transport is not very convenient, and if there isn't enough horsepower, you can't even get around. Hence, it's best to equip ourselves with good vehicles, so as to ensure safety. It's unrealistic to have public servants to go down to the villages in vehicles that cost less than RMB250,000." more ›

Especially here in Shanghai, one look out onto any main street and you'll see luxury car after luxury car roll by. Anyone with half a brain could deduce that the Chinese have money and love to show it off by their choice of ride; that's certainly not rocket science. That the top three luxury car brands are all German--Audi, BMW, followed by Mercedes-Benz -- is not news either. We could've guessed that one too. However, where the market research from J.D. Power & Associates becomes interesting is its demographic breakdowns on who's buying these cars. more ›

Porsche's Panamera Turbo is a soon-to-be-released sports sedan, a German-produced rocket of a car that puts out a whopping 493 horsepower, rockets from 0-60mph in 4.0 seconds, and only stops accelerating at a mind-numbing 188mph. So why, given Shanghai's never-ending traffic problems, should you care? Because you could be one of the first to see it! more ›

Danwei directed us to the embedded six-month old video of a short local NBC News piece on a Chinese-made three-wheel "car" available from a dealer in Webster, New York (it's actually available in several places in the U.S., like Michigan). The Webster dealer (we think this is his MySpace page ... yes, MySpace) claims women love the Wildfire WF650-C. The jury is still out on that one. more ›