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WORLD’S CLEANEST HUMVEE
Al Gore claims:
We can’t sell our cars in China today because we don’t meet the Chinese emissions standards.
And Sir Nicholas Stern dutifully repeats:
You can’t export an American car to China: it does not satisfy the emissions standards.
Take a look, gentlemen:
Via a Chinese-reading correspondent, who emails: “Not only is China importing US vehicles. Not only are they importing gas-guzzling US Hummers. Now they’re importing US Hummers stretched to breaking point.
“This Hummer is 10.5 metres long, weighs 5 tons, cost more than RMB 4 million (around US$500,000), and uses 30 litres of fuel per 100 km. It costs over 10,000 RMB (more than US$1,000) to fill up the tank! The owner says it is fully imported from the US and has a Bose sound system.
“Now, where were those regulations again? You know, the ones that prevent US imports ...”
UPDATE. Reaction at Andrew’s place:
I’ve just come back from China and you’d have to be blind to miss all the American cars. Note to the Goreacle: Have a look in Beijing and you’ll find more than one Buick dealership ... not to mention the others. This guy really is hoping that people who don’t know any better won’t question what he has to say …
Nick Stern repeated Gore’s lie during an appearance at Australia’s National Press Club; not one question from an entire roomful of journalists. Another comment:
It is not merely the fact that you can see any number of American cars on China’s streets that is so damning of Mr Gore’s integrity, it is that you can see their exhaust. I mean not in the sense of a little whisp of smoke. I mean if you lined up Tim Blair in a V8 Monaro and told him to smoke his wheels as much as he could, he couldn’t compete with the smoke produced by your average Chinese bus.
I’d still like to try. Meanwhile, Arrowhead points out:
Goreworld sure is a funny place. Meanwhile, in real actual China, “last year sales of imported vehicles with engines greater than 3L surged 59.2 percent”.
It’s possible one or two US-made cars might be in that number.
I bet it does better than 10 peasants to the kilometre….
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 10 01 at 12:23 PM • permalinkAre you sure it’s actually a GM Hummer, and not a Chinese pseudo-Hummer?
that’s an ... interesting ... SS logo on the side.
Posted by bad cat robot on 2007 10 01 at 12:52 PM • permalinkthat’s an ... interesting ... SS logo on the side.
Might not be, bcr. Maybe it means “Standards Suck”? Or it’s an ideograph meaning “Eat Me, Al Gore”.
But for any SS supporter that open about it, I’d expect to see at least one weapons mount on the roof, the better to clear the road of inconvenient traffic. Mayhaps another Blairite, better versed in Chinese matters, can elaborate on this.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 01 at 01:05 PM • permalinkChina only has emissions standards for peasants and Tibetans…
Posted by -keith in mtn. view on 2007 10 01 at 01:18 PM • permalink#7 Aha:
http://zonaeuropa.com/20070427_1.htm
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 10 01 at 01:23 PM • permalink#9 The baby is lovely! We called him Marius but his real name is Piggle. No particular problems at birth, though he made 9/11 by half an hour, the little sod. The missus is fine - howz yours going? x
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 10 01 at 01:34 PM • permalink#1 paco
From your link:
The meeting was held to discuss the possibility and terms and conditions of the joint venture between PACO and Dong Feng. Dong Feng’s representatives in their presentation…
Hah! I knew it!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 01 at 01:58 PM • permalinkStretch Hummer….......okay, I think I’d better leave that one alone.
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 02:13 PM • permalinkRe #9: Thanks, T&B…..somehow, “Chinese Top Brand” sounds like an oxymoron to me.
And congratulations!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 01 at 02:27 PM • permalinkAdmin OT: Hm. For some reason the “Roof Replaced, Child Kept” entry is loading without a stylesheet. I will investigate.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 10 01 at 02:42 PM • permalinkThis Hummer is 10.5 metres long, weighs 5 tons, cost more than RMB 4 million (around US$500,000), and uses 30 litres of fuel per 100 km. It costs over 10,000 RMB (more than US$1,000) to fill up the tank! The owner says it is fully imported from the US and has a Bose sound system.
And room in the ashtrays for 6M Jews.
Posted by Michael Levy on 2007 10 01 at 03:50 PM • permalinkThat about 7.8 mpg, for fellow US barbarians.
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 10 01 at 03:58 PM • permalink#26
Ha, I can beat that, my tank got 4 gallons to the mile!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 04:12 PM • permalinkCongrats to our newest parents!
Al Gore, and others, aren’t concerned about the truth of their assertions. They aren’t talking to anybody who will bother to check out anything they say. There are always those people who eagerly repeat anything that fits with their preconceptions without any thought, just as they accepted all of their preconceptions. They are pre-conceptual beings. What is disturbing is that there are so damned many of them these days.
More on the interesting Dong Feng product line. PACO has been busy.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 10 01 at 05:32 PM • permalinkCongrats to T&B and the missus for expanding their carbon footprint exponentially. A fine addition to the cadre of minions. (Or he will be in a few years time)
Also, at #23 I really do wish this blog came with warnings, sometimes. I nearly ended up with coffee all over the keyboard.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 10 01 at 05:48 PM • permalinkGoreworld sure is a funny place. Meanwhile, in real actual China, “last year sales of imported vehicles with engines greater than 3L surged 59.2 percent”
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 10 01 at 06:32 PM • permalinkA vehicle perfect for getting your child to school in the new China.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 10 01 at 07:06 PM • permalinkMarius do take care, there are little creatures out there called
Girls OOOPPSSGirls.Ummm, Dear Old Dad, will fill you in.
Hucbald,
That was while driving, I made it worse by using the exhaust plate to heat shaving water….that took another 10 gallons….
And to make Gaia proud, you should have seen what it looked like with the smoke generators on!!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 09:09 PM • permalink#25, you think they got the doors from old Nazi vehicles?
Doesn’t bode well…
I saw an extended limo-Hummer the other night in the Toorak suburb of Melbourne. Several “going to a dance” high-school girls screamed and waved at people. Funniest thing I saw all night - of course, I was only out of the house for half an hour.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 10 01 at 10:48 PM • permalink... so damning of Mr Gore’s integrity…
Gore still has integrity? I thought he threw his in the plopper about the time he dropped out of divinity school.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 01 at 11:21 PM • permalink53 Dminor - wow sensational photo and looks like your little fella is a charmer.
At this stage we have little Christian, the Denmark prince, lined up as her suitor, but if this falls through, I’ll let you know.
thanks RebeccaH. good advice. Any starving will be met with a kick up the arse.
saltydog - better than viewing photos of Rudd, Egghead or Gorebot, I bet. Gives me some hope for the future seeing the little ones smiling innocently.
better say something on topic
I like chinese yum cha - anyone else?
Ash
Bless him, hes got the glowing red eyes of a RWDB allready. (pic 2)Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 02 at 05:15 AM • permalinkcongrats ThinandBritish, and Ash_, your baby is beautiful.
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 10 02 at 09:43 AM • permalinkHmmmm.
Soooooo.
How do you say “Kick ass hemi!” in Chinese?
Posted by memomachine on 2007 10 02 at 12:31 PM • permalinkChina Becoming Second Largest Vehicle Market
China surged past Japan to become the world’s No. 2 vehicle market after the United States last year as car purchases by newly affluent drivers jumped 37 percent, the Chinese auto industry association said Thursday.
The announcement highlighted China’s lightning evolution from a “bicycle kingdom” into a major auto market where foreign producers are racing to open factories and target a growing urban middle class.
Struggling US automakers General Motors and Ford have gotten a boost from double-digit sales growth in China and fledgling Chinese manufacturers are starting to export their own cars, trucks and SUVs.
[...]
Red-hot Chinese sales have brought relief to US automakers, which have seen weak demand at home.
General Motors Corp. said Monday that its total sales in China last year rose 32 percent over 2005 to 876,747 vehicles. Ford Motor Co. said sales of its brands, including Ford, Lincoln, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo, rose 87 percent to 166,722 units.
European and Japanese automakers report similar surges. Luxury auto maker Rolls Royce, owned by Germany’s BMW AG, says its 2006 sales were up 60 percent. The company is expanding its work force to meet Chinese demand for its $380,000 luxury Phantom.
China’s biggest-selling automaker last year was Shanghai General Motors Corp., a GM joint venture, with 365,400 vehicles sold, according to the Chinese industry group.
How could Comical Al not know this? What a liar.
Check out this eco-friendly stretch hummer:
http://www.worldsnest.com/html/vehicle_systems.html
This hummer runs on biodiesel and hydrogen. We wanted to show that you could have really cool toys but still be environmentally friendly.
NPR Morning Edition ran a story a few weeks ago about Hummers in China - they are there.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14495765
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Oh, don’t get so excited, Tim. It’s for transshipment to Pakistan.