Has a lot of time was said to visit China From the west it is similar to landing in a parallel universe. Choose any important city and most of the aspects seem widely familiar, but the foundations are different. You can’t greet a Uber Use of gold Google Maps To move and your hotel TV will not do so Netflix. Instead, there is always an alternative domestic. One who is probably newer, bigger, faster and perhaps even better than what you used to go home.
And so for the Chinese automotive industryWhose last opportunity to frighten the lights of the day living outside Europe and the United States arrived at the Shanghai Auto Motor Show. Held in the largest exhibition space in the world, the show has seen over 1,400 cars from 26 countries scattered in 13 rooms. About 93 vehicles made their world debut in front of 1 million expectations. YouTuber would subsequently load on foot of whole-show with racing times longer than Interstellar.
How many world weaks do you think they have taken place at the Geneva International Motor Show in 2024? About a dozen. It is not surprising that it was Canceled For 2025.
In western eyes, Shanghai car photos are similar to asking Chatgpt To recreate the days of glory of past motor work. Anyone who walked through the cavernous convention of Paris, Frankfurt, Geneva, Detroit, even Birmingham, and looked at the new and the exciting will recognize the scene. There is a lot of shiny and carbon metal, trained by car of all sizes, shape and social status imaginable. But the badges are not familiar, the names of the non -design models; Plausably low prices, requests for performance from another planet.
Of course, some machines are trained in fur such as children’s toys, complete with ears and tail of bunnies, but perhaps it is only the hallucinating ia. This is still largely the type of car show Europe and the United States hosted every few months in a pre -epithemic world.
Names like Jetour, DenceIcar, Changan, Hongqi e Luxeed It won’t play many bells. He continues to walk and you will meet a reassuring look at Audi, Lotus, Buick and Volkswagen, but the spark of familiarity they carry is quickly extinct from a clear realization: they are not for a long time in Shanghai to show the birth of the locals as it is, a western industry that rides with a century of success. They are surrounded by younger rivals, more fit and acute with the hunger to put a ding in the universe. And there is to be a food frenzy.
Winning and odd award
The salient points of the Shanghai show this year included the And -turn G900An electric SUV extended remotely with two rear turbines to be used as a boat; An electric Porsche 911 rival By Denza owned by Byd; The award -winning Xpendg M03 Mona; and the Maextro S800in the luxury sedan that Rivals of Maybach from Huawei.
Yes, that Huawei. The Telecomunicazioni Company Supervise The Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance (Hima), which includes car brands such as Aito, Stelate and Saic, another automotive group that included Roewe, Rising Auto, WulingAnd they form the MG British sports car manufacturer, among others.