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It's Friday: new rickshaw brings pedal-power to the MINI

Click on picture for high-res image If you hadn't noticed, the Olympic Games in Beijing are being celebrated these days. MINI decided that it was a good opportunity to mix Chinese traditions with British German craftmanship and so they sent a MINI Clubman to be cut in half and made a rickshaw. Yes, not a lot of horsepowers, but human legpower moves the MINI rickshaw around the Hu Tong district in Beijing. The vehicle is finished with all sorts of amulets and decorations to bring good luck to the rider, and liberate some positive energy during ... Read more →

Volkswagen supplies 5,000 "green cars" for the Beijing Olympics Xavier Navarro

Click above for complete gallery The Beijing Olympics will have a complete fleet of 5,000 "green cars" by Volkswagen, which is an official sponsor. The chosen models are the Magotan 2.0 TDI (6.2 ...

The Detroit News coughs in Beijing's air quality Jeremy Korzeniewski

The city of Beijing has been generating the kinds of headlines that cities usually want no part of. Ahead of the Olympic games, many athletes have been publicly deriding the city's air quality, and ...

Beijing '08 Preview: Chery to unveil new small car that's neither a copy or ugly Sam Abuelsamid

Chery Motors first came to the worlds attention a few years ago when one of the first products, the QQ mini-car turned out to have a rather startling resemblance to the Daewoo Matiz which was being ...

It's Friday: new rickshaw brings pedal-power to the MINI 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on picture for high-res image If you hadn't noticed, the Olympic Games in Beijing are being celebrated these days. MINI decided that it was a good opportunity to mix Chinese traditions with British German craftmanship and so they sent a MINI Clubman to be cut in half and made a rickshaw. Yes, ...

Volkswagen supplies 5,000 "green cars" for the Beijing Olympics 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for complete gallery The Beijing Olympics will have a complete fleet of 5,000 "green cars" by Volkswagen, which is an official sponsor. The chosen models are the Magotan 2.0 TDI (6.2 l/100) and Magotan BlueMotion (5.1 l/100), the Sagitar 1.4 TSI (6.4 l/100), the Touran EcoFuel (bifuel ...

The Detroit News coughs in Beijing's air quality 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The city of Beijing has been generating the kinds of headlines that cities usually want no part of. Ahead of the Olympic games, many athletes have been publicly deriding the city's air quality, and rightly so. According to the World Health Organization, the current air pollution in Beijing is at ...

Beijing '08 Preview: Chery to unveil new small car that's neither a copy or ugly 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Chery Motors first came to the worlds attention a few years ago when one of the first products, the QQ mini-car turned out to have a rather startling resemblance to the Daewoo Matiz which was being sold in China as the Chevy Spark. It turned out on closer examination that the components on the QQ ...


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