A few months ago, Motoring Weekly wrote about a new entrant to the US market: Zotye (pronounced Zo-Tay) via a California based company, HAAH Automotive. The CEO of HAAH is teasing the media with a comment that they will be bringing a second Zotye brand to market very soon. The founder of HAAH is Duke Hale, a 35-year veteran of the US automotive industry having been a former … [Read more...]
Jaguar Land Rover Wins Fight Against LandWind
One of the first articles we wrote after converting Motoring Weekly from a podcast into a written form was about the LandWind X7 and how it was a clone of the first series Range Rover Evoque. That was back in December 2014 and mistakenly called a Land Wing - it was still a pre-production model then. Now, over four years later, a Chinese Court has finally ruled that LandWind … [Read more...]
Zotye Auto Arrives in the US
When Motoring Weekly first saw the announcement that Zotye were going to start selling in the US, the first thing we said was: who? Zotye Auto are a very young company with respects to car manufacturing having been founded in 2005. They started out exporting components and presumably soon found that they were making enough parts for everyone else that they could simply bolt … [Read more...]
Update on Faraday Future
Last year, Motoring Weekly wrote an article about the state of Faraday Future and how they were looking forward to a rosy future because they had secured a backer and had a factory in Nevada being built. August was a great time to be at Faraday with their FF-91 about to head into full scale production. In December, all that changed. The funding had dried up - which was a … [Read more...]
GAC Motors Selects US City for HQ
The Chinese manufacturer, GAC Motors, a subsidiary of the Guangzhou Automobile Group has announced that it will set up its North American headquarters in Irvine, California. The company already has a design centre and other facilities near Detroit. The new headquarters will provide all the normal business services needed by a company opening in a new market. The company … [Read more...]