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Getting a used car in China?
Miel 发表于 2007-12-08 12:04:00


The notion of getting a car in China is considered a signature towards a successful life. And how do the Chinese view this? The bigger the better. The only factor thats interesting is one can actually get a car, but may not mean that one will use it everyday. Cars usually end up in the garage or car parks and might only be used to fetch their old folks or a short tour outside the city in the sub urbs during weekends.

The two reasons for not using cars daily in Shanghai by normal folks are:

1 Shanghai is a congested city full of vehicles on the road. Road Rage occur frequently. By the time you get to your destination, its as good as taking public transport.

2 Petrol consumption is high and expensive. Filling up full might costs 250-400RMB per fill. The average salary of Chinese who buys cars are 5k-10k.

The only good reason to owning a car in China is when you frequently need it to cross long distance to another area. Similarly, this should be the case for most of us now as petrol prices are raising everyday. We should all go eco-friendly and recycle. However, for a consumer world of ours, throwing away things and going for new toys is a common sight. So changing cars can frequently happen. If you are the type who prefer to save up and get a car of your desire at a lesser costs, a second hand car might be your choice. Especially if you are currently a college student.



This is my dream car. But getting a Hummer running in any Asian road will be a challenge. The monster will most probably end up corking up the two lanes in any Asian cities. But the huge sheer size of it is enough to intimidate any road rage from happening in China!



You can do your own car search and seek out your dream car and buy it if you reside in the U.K, MT is suppose to help you locate cars easier in your local area, a convenient for those living and residing in the U.K.

Apart from finding your local dealers online and seeking the cars you want, you can find news and reviews of cars in the market which you can lay your hands on. MT offers a very comprehensive guide to the cars, both used and new in the market. Apart from that, you can get your car listed online, so allowing yourself exposed to more potential buyers when you intend to sell your junkie anytime soon.

And if you ever need a loan after getting your dream car. Fret not, MT makes it easy for to you to get a loan. As long you are debt-free with a clean stat and record, getting a loan is never easier with MT and its partners.




Green Traffic Week

September 18, 2007 - by Pauline Law

As part of the greening of China before the 2008 Olympics, the Ministry of Construction has introduced a campaign for this week, "Green Traffic Week", China Daily reports. The goal of the initiative is to raise the proportion of commuters who use public transit to fifty percent.

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On Saturday, September 22, 108 cities will participate in "No Car Day", which Yahoo! News reports is the first nation's first. The cities will designate special areas where private automobiles will be prohibited. Instead, commuters are encouraged to walk, bike, or take public transit. In Beijing, traffic will be restricted in the area between Tianqiao and Zhushikou, as well as Wangfujing to Bamiancao from 7am to 7pm.

China Daily's article on No Car Day does not, however, mention whether or not public transit capacity will be expanded to accommodate the expected surge of passengers during No Car Day, nor does it give an explanation as to why the Ministry of Construction chose Saturday to hold the event.

A previous No Car Day held only in Beijing on June 5, 2006 reportedly decreased typical traffic jam routes from 50 to 48 and reduced private vehicular traffic by approximately 250,000 cars.




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Traffic in perfect harmony
In a traffic system that's so helplessly overloaded, it takes a true miracle for things to work so perfectly well.

Every men, women, cars, buses, dogs and cows moves in such harmony that there had to be some mystic power behind all these.

In fact, it was well suspected that some kind of traffic goddess used her omnipotent power to prevent such intricate flow of cosmic movement from falling into an entangling mess (like in many western cities)

There are almost no functioning traffic lights; the few that work are utterly ignored. Yet not a single pedestrian was killed (at least I didn't see any)

When a pedestrian walked into the road, he or she creates an invisible energy field where no car, bus nor rickshaw could break through. You could see islands of pedestrians scattered among the busy Indian streets. It was a well known fact that no other foreigner could create such energy field. Any foreigners experimenting with these kinds of stunts were instantly minced into potato purred. That of course was due to the deities being worshipped by the locals and the outsiders are vastly different. It took many years of devote patronizing to summon such protection field.

Not only were the people, the machines were also part of this coordinated cosmic dance. I often seen two vehicles occupied in a single domain of 3 dimensional spaces. I thought my eyes were fooling me, but there was no such trick. Autorickshaw could create a dimensional portal that automatically teleport them to the front of other cars. Such blatant maneuvering could only performed by the Indians who worshipped the Goddess of Traffic.


Just What India Needs: The $3,000 Car



The Sierra Club points out that in India, there are currently about 7 cars per 1,000 persons (as compared to nearly 500 per 1,000 in the US). With the advent of the $3,000 car, that is surely about to change. The Independent's Andrew Buncombe reports:

If India's roads seem cluttered and inadequate, things are set to get much worse. Over the coming months, a series of car manufacturers are set to unveil new models aimed at India's burgeoning middle class. Remarkably, some of the new cars designed to entice the wallets of India's newly wealthy consumers will be priced as cheaply as $3,000 (£1,500). One model, due to be available as early as next year, has been dubbed the "People's Car".

This explosion of new affordable vehicles is poised to have a number of dramatic effects on the country - most visibly adding further traffic to roads that are often filled with rickshaws, bicycles, people and animals.

Yet while consumer demand for such vehicles is high, there are also considerable concerns about the environmental impact these countless thousands of new cars will have, not just in terms of adding to the congestion of India's cities, but increasing the already mounting emissions of CO2 the country is pumping out.




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