On the Shanghai auto exhibition held on April 20, 2009, the brand new Chery M1, which is greatly fancied and expected by young customers, shows up splendidly with three versions of 1.3 L displacement and 6 color options, arousing strong competitiveness. Meanwhile, M1 will start up the Chinese Touring Show themed on "Distinctively Created, Naturally Charmed", bringing the intelligent digital experience of possessing a car to more and more young people.
As a pioneer of Chery in entering the high-end small-sized car markets, M1 is positioned as the intelligent digital high-quality car to cater to modern youngsters. Taking highlights of “DSS intelligent digital safety system”, “DSE intelligent digital energy-saving system”, and “DSC intelligent digital controlling system”, M1 successfully leads the trend of car markets, and its leading position in Chinese high-end minicar markets is firmly established by the reasonable price range.
The fashionable design attracts tremendous attention
M1, specially designed for young people fancying colorful life and voguish style, becomes the focus of public for its unique and fashionable design out of the distinguished taste. Designed by the famous Italian designing group, the high-end high quality minicar adopts the most popular design element and style, and it looks full of dynamics. One designing highlight is that the sideline of M1 is full of strength and power. Together with the 5-spoke aluminum-alloy wheel hub, the side lines of car all look energetic, changing the previous feeling of strength and energy lacking in small cars.
The designers boldly make the breakthrough in the body shape: the car introduces the big broken line, and interlaces fluent yet sharp lines on the body, the dynamic fashion visual effect always astonishes the public. All these clearly indicate that the owner of M1 is the unique urban young people fancying the colorful life and distinguished taste.
Intelligent digital establishing the high-end position
As another high-end high quality car from Chery aiming at medium/high-end market, M1 significantly emphasizes on performance parameters, it’s equipped with various kinds of high-end devices, and the innovative equipment of DSS intelligent digital safety system, DSE intelligent digital energy-saving system and the DSC intelligent digital controlling system guarantee the highlights of safety, energy-saving and controlling, and successfully promote M1 to be fancied and pursued by numerous young customers.
Intelligent digital safety: equipped with ABS+EBD double active-safety guarantee and SRS multi airbags positive-safety protection, M1 could indubitably handle the emergency. The collision test taken in early March demonstrated that M1 performed quite well in side collision. The air bags and the energy-absorbing crumple zone will well protect passengers when accidents occur. And what is more, M1 is completely equipped with various digital devices, including car anti-theft system, LED high-mounted brake light, electrical central lock, and auto window shut with car locking. M1 is as good as its competitors regarding devices equipping, and could also provide all-round safety guarantee to car occupants.
Intelligent digital energy-saving: equipped with intelligent digital energy-saving system, M1/1.3L consumes only 4.5L fuel per 100km, and that is why M1 is greatly fancied and pursued by customers. What’s exceptionally commendable is M1 perfectly takes both energy-saving and dynamic into consideration. Equipped with ACTECO in-line four cylinders, double overhead cam, electronic injection engine, M1 could reach a max. power of 83 horsepower. The performance is quite excellent among the same level cars.
Intelligent digital controlling: M1 combines car operating information integral display system, digital parking assisting system and various intelligent digital systems together, fully demonstrating the elaboratee design of M1 in upgrading the intelligent control system. Meanwhile, when driving M1, customers could really enjoy the humanized features, such as auto sunroof and AUX digital audio input, fully realizing taste advancing.
The news about potential investment of Great Wall Motor was revealed by Dziennik Wschodni, which relying on the direct information from the local government. According to newspaper, GWM considers assembly passenger car and commercial vehicles in the former Daewoo’s factory. Representatives of Chinese company visited Poland with the Prime Minister of China in late April. Is there any chance to implement a new project?
BYD unveiled two new exciting models – the "F3 Plus" and the Dual Mode "Qin" at 2012 Beijing International Auto Show. This year's Auto show theme was "Innovate and Excel" and BYD did both displaying 3 new break-through technologies in their new vehicles. The BYD Qin is an intelligent, next-generation, highly-efficient dual-mode electric vehicle that uses BYD's new, innovative Dual Mode II system with improvements over the first generation's F3DM system.
Polish traders are not interesting of Chinese pickups. This conclusion stems from fast dropping prices of the model ZX Auto Grandtiger produced in 2011. Dealers which has decided distributing of the car compete together who give the lowest price. Grandtiger, which normally costs less then 17,000 EUR* (without taxes) for the best version with two airbags, air conditioning and metallic color, currently is offered for 13,350 EUR*. It is very competitive price, because is equipped with Hyundai’s 2.5l (170 hp) diesel engine and three year warranty.
The registration data provided by IBRM Samar show, that only 40 Chinese cars were registered in Poland in 2011. Although this result isn’t impressive, it is more twice than in 2010, when the number of registrations was 19. For comparison, a Samar reported 13 units of models „made in China” in 2009, so Polish market is growing up.
Beiqi Foton will debut on the Polish market later this year. One of the biggest Chinese producer of commercial vehicles is building sales network. Although we don’t know the official Foton’s offer, we can suppose that only new cars with European homologation and Euro 5 norm can appear on the Polish streets. Foton has only one model which meets our expectations. It is a newest pickup named Foton Tunland (code P201).