Blog Tag - Cars

City Driving: Beijing to Cut License Plate Quota Even Further
Winning the Beijing license plate lottery is about to become more like ... winning the lottery. The Beijing Municipal Government announced Tuesday...
City Driving: Beijing Police Blame Women Drivers for Traffic Ails
Police: Please just stand next to the car rather than drive it. It seems that the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau has discovered the root...
City Driving: Chaoyang Lu Installs Flexible Traffic Control Lanes
A strange sight greeted motorists on Chaoyang Lu last week: express lanes without center barrier fences. Now, instead of two lanes each way in the...
City Driving: Beijing Needs 2.5 Million More Parking Spaces
If parking on Nanluogu Xiang on a Sunday afternoon is already bad, it may be getting worse. Beijing will need 2.5 million new parking spaces in the...
City Driving: License Plate Restrictions Change This Weekend
I've been driving in Beijing for two and a half years now, and I love it. Driving in Beijing is real driving, none of that between-the-lines, hand...
Is BYD Low On Power?
After four years of partying hard, investors in Shenzhen-based battery-turned-auto maker BYD woke up at the end of 2012 with a terrible hangover....
News You Might Have Missed: What to Avoid, Car Complaints, Visa Texts and Titanic Take Two
Since the tainted tea and carcinogenic capsules, food scandals have been hitting the headlines non-stop. Beijingers are also bemoaning their car...
Year of the Dragon Concept Car: Beijing Auto Show 2012
Beijing's Auto China 2012 trade show is currently making more noise in the global media than a boy racer's souped-up exhaust. Here we round up the...
Time to Buckle Up?
For better or worse, China’s always been pretty lax about seat belt usage. But now, with several lethal accidents occurring at the end of 2011 and...
Five Million Cars and Counting
The number of Beijing cars finally broke the five-million mark last week. The slight glimmer of good news is that due to the license plate lottery...
You Can Drive, But You Can’t Park Here
Over the long holiday weekend Beijing is giving to and taking from car owners out there. Everyone can get out and drive with restrictions being...
Beijing's License Lottery: Unlucky Winners and Expat Hostages
The recent car regulations in Beijing have resulted in some interesting fallout that just proves bikes are best. It has been lottery overload with...
Solve the traffic nightmare - winners announced!
After some fierce and spirited debate, the winners and honourable mentions for solving the traffic nightmare are announced! Read on to see who the...
New Regulations Provoke Car Buying Frenzy Across Beijing
Rumors and speculation over regulations attempting to limit the torrent of new cars that appear on Beijing streets every day have been swirling...