China has over 100 car manufacturers churning out ever more makes and
models of cars and its tough to tell your QQ from your Spark these days
(Hint: look for the annoying logo of the hydrocephalic penguin to find
the QQ). In the pre-consolidation dawn of the China auto industry,
there are going to be some winners and losers, so instead of using
brand names to identify cars – brands which may or may not be around in
a few years – I like to identify cars on China’s roads by their
function – how they are actually used by their drivers. I have come up
with several types:
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