Beijing Auto Show News

The final full week of April 2013 has come to a close, but before it goes away forever, you'll want to check out all of this week's important happenings in the automotive world. The week began with news from Germany as BMW is pondering the possibility of a 1 Series ...    Read more

Maserati has finally unveiled its 2014 Ghibli midsize sedan, a vehicle which it hopes will help lift its annual sales to 50,000 units a year. It's rumored that the 2014 Maserati Ghibli is ...    Read more

Honda presented to the world its Concept S hatchback in Beijing, back in April. The strange green thing resembled a modern-day Mystery Machine, if Shaggy and the gang drove around in a combination Japanese Honda Odyssey and Dustbuster. But it fits into Honda's lineup the ...    Read more

Honda showed off the Concept C at Beijing this month, a large sedan that—like all concepts shown in China this year—was inspired by dragons, according to Honda. And Chinese people sure love their dragons, it seems. Question is, will the Americans love dragons as well? Lidded like a jack-o-lantern with ...    Read more

Oh hey, look, it's the new Porsche Cayenne GTS that was unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show, and wow, look at how green it is! We're not yet sure if it's an indication of how green with envy you'll be for the neighbor who picks one up, or if it's ...    Read more

The biggest story of the week was the Beijing Auto Show. No longer a backmarker on the show circuit, Beijing is rapidly becoming a must-attend event for automakers and auto journalists alike. And, not surprisingly, there were some pretty major announcements, and a few sneak peeks of what we might ...    Read more

There was once a time, future archaeologists will point to, sometime in the 1990s, Anno Domini, when impressionable humans were enamored with the idea of riding higher than everyone else. Skyward, onward their chariots rose, soaring to the heavens and taller than everyone else's. They carried the names of adventure, exploration, ...    Read more

China's annual international auto show, which rotates each year between Beijing and Shanghai, is a mixed bag of promise and a facade of decades-old technology hiding under fresh sheetmetal. China's auto market is still emerging, and the country doesn't always have the same sets of quality and crash standards of ...    Read more

For years, Ford trucks and SUVs like the F-150 and Explorer were the bread and butter for the automaker here in the states. While the Ford F-150 still continues to be a cash cow, Ford has made a 180 degree turn and now is refocusing its energies on passenger cars ...    Read more

Much ink has been spilled over China's burgeoning upper class, the sort of easily-excitable millionaires and billionaires that snap up luxury cars as if they were the Pogs from our childhood. China now has 1.11 million, er, millionaires, a world record—does that make it a nation of millions squared?—and  ...    Read more

It's undoubtedly a sign of the times when stalwart luxury automakers are downsizing their engines to boost sales. Mercedes-Benz and BMW have already reduced their engine output, in some configurations and now you can count Jaguar in too. Today, at the 2012 Beijing Motor Show, Jaguar unveiled two new powertrains that ...    Read more

There's an old auto industry proverb that goes something like this: Any press release you see from a German automaker in English, multiply its length by 10 to get the feel for how it originally read in German before an English-speaking PR team got its hands on it. For a ...    Read more

Nissan has a terrible history of long waits and vague pictures teasing its new vehicles before they actually go on sale. The same would hold true for the 2013 Nissan Sentra compact sedan if it weren't for a little ...    Read more

In possibly the only subtle thing Lamborghini has ever done, the company quietly previewed an SUV at the New York Auto Show for a select group of journalists; the rest of the world will get to look at it when it debuts at the Beijing Auto Show next Monday. And ...    Read more

The BMW i8 Concept Spyder is nearing its official debut at the Beijing Motor Show later this month. But that hasn't stopped BMW from showing off the plug-in sports car as much as it possibly can before the show. The German automaker recently released 47 seconds of eye candy. In it, ...    Read more

In the days leading up to the Beijing Auto Show, Honda unveiled its business strategy for the Chinese market. It included the fact that the NSX is coming to China, the addition of three new hybrid models, and expanding production capacity at Dongfeng Honda (which builds the CR-V and the Civic). ...    Read more

What you're looking at right now is the BMW i8 Spyder concept, slated for its world introduction at the Beijing Auto Show at the end of April. But what BMW wants you to see is that despite tightening fuel economy regulations, high gas prices, and an uncertain future for our ...    Read more