Greetings my friends
The year is coming to a end, its time to evaluate the chinese auto industry.
We could start a thread and a pool on this:
Evaluating the good and the bad things, some would be subjected to personal taste like the better looking sports car, some other dedicated to the top sellers.
For instance:
Best Hatchback
Best Sedan
Best Pick Up
Best SUV
Best Sportscar
Worst looking Car.
Strangest Looking car. I have a few ideas for this
"Back to the future special" dedicated to cars that still are produced in China,
but the design is pasted long ago
Biggest Chinese Exporter.

I would like to have some ffed back from you guys. What do you think?

Worst/Strangest looking cars:

DongFeng D120:

http://www.autoblog.com/media/2006/11/305mjd28055e0008.jpg

Pride/Pulaide saloon based on the Chery Oriental Son/Eastar with Audi A6 rear lights:

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/6265/41756359ll8.jpg
http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/5629/38811995vh9.jpg
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4920/41244929co6.jpg

Worst/Strangest looking cars:

DongFeng D120:

http://www.autoblog.com/media/2006/11/305mjd28055e0008.jpg

Pride/Pulaide saloon based on the Chery Oriental Son/Eastar with Audi A6 rear lights:

http://s2.album.sina.com.cn/pic/5372500902000jmp
http://s9.album.sina.com.cn/pic/5372500902000jmk
this car looks like a nightmare, specialy with this biright yellow.

Yeah, it's even got the Buick dashes on the side, only they're offset in location to slant downwards towards the very front of the car.

Trash it and start again on something else!

Candidates for ugliest car.

Dongfeng Rongcheng Little Prince:
http://www.moj-album.com/slike/4219952/KhbeFEegVEmdWjBF.v.jpg

Geely Beauty Leopard first and second generation:
http://www.geely-global.com/cars/bl/images/bl_ex_05.jpghttp://www.geely-global.com/cars/bl/images/bl_ex_02.jpg
http://img.autohome.com.cn/upload/spec/2612/w_2612527186851.jpg

Best designed concept cars

Hongqi:
http://photo.chinacars.com/Photo/chezhan/2006beijing/zhengche/gcc/hqgn/500/061118cj0022.JPG
http://photo.chinacars.com/Photo/chezhan/2006beijing/zhengche/gcc/hqgn/500/061118eo0020.JPG
http://photo.chinacars.com/Photo/chezhan/2006beijing/zhengche/gcc/hqgn/500/061118ph0018.JPG

JAC Vision 2:
http://www.autoblog.com/media/2006/11/autoblog_china_dsc00268.jpg

Ugliest concept car, a real nightmare:
http://www.autoblog.com/media/2006/11/autoblog_china_geely_forwinddsc00030.jpg
http://www.autoblog.com/media/2006/11/autoblog_china_geely_forwinddsc00032.jpg
http://www.autoblog.com/media/2006/11/autoblog_china_geely_forwinddsc00040.jpg
http://www.autoblog.com/media/2006/11/autoblog_china_geely_forwinddsc00054.jpg

Best sedan - FAW Besturn. Why? Because its based on Mazda 6, but it's not just plain rebadge.
http://www.moj-album.com/slike/4219952/mwkazEStUWxG6e5S.jpg

Best pick-up - Great Wall Wingle. All pick-ups are based on old Isuzus and Toyotas, but this one at least looks good.
http://www.chinamobil.ru/photo/GwWingle/full/P1010329.jpg

Best sportcar - Zhonghua Brilliance M3.
http://cn.autoblog.com/images/2006/11/m32.jpg

Best hatcback - upcoming Chery A3 five-door.
http://www.autoblog.com/media/2006/11/dsc00425chery_a3.jpg

Gwm Hoverhttp://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2959/hovercrnija5.jpg

Other good hatchbacks (at least good looking hatchbacks):

Chang'an CV6

http://img.autohome.com.cn/upload/spec/2633/u_2633609648396.jpg

Chery A1:

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3/daewoo-chevrolet/u_2895313412858.jpg

Xiali C1:

http://img.autohome.com.cn/upload/spec/2580/u_2580957480486.jpg

Best MPV's:

Chang'an CV11:

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t167/Ahuracar/cv113.jpg

Chery V5 (CrossEastar):

http://img.autohome.com.cn/upload/spec/2719/u_2719159807067.jpg

Landwind Fashion:

http://www.autoweek.nl/images/800/6/e9c3b17545b4c4418f15376e5fa689e6.jpg

It seems there is interest in getting this pool done.
I would sugest we define the cathegories, and then we could start to vote.What do you think?

The Geely Beauty Leopard actually looks promising to me...although I would need more information on it. Is Geely releasing it in the U.S., per chance? Price? Both generations look good to me, although it looks to be sort of a BMW copy in the front and a Supra sort of in the back.

I actually like it's overall flow, though I would love to see a shot of it from the side, at an angle.

Second nominee for 'Best SUV':
ChangFeng CS6:

http://img.autohome.com.cn/upload/spec/3379/u_3379601728185.jpg

More nominees for 'Best sedan':
Roewe 750:

http://www.thechinesecars.com/roewe/roewe750e.jpg

Brilliance BS4:

http://www.thechinesecars.com/brilliance/bs43.jpg

Chery A6:

http://auto.scol.com.cn/html/2007/04/pic/002003001_580949_4.jpg

Chery A3 Sedan:

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t167/Ahuracar/ca31.jpg

BYD F6:

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u302/Chinacar/bydf6a.jpg

Another Best pick-up nominee:
Zhongxing Grand Tiger:

http://www.zr.ru/img/76301_3.jpg

Another Best SUV nominee:

http://www.chinamobil.ru/photo/AdLandmark/full/DSC_0140.jpg