China Car Cult

This bus is not over packed

admin — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:51:37 +0000

As mentioned previously, the Chinese New Year is technically over and workers are heading back to their jobs. One very serious problem is the over crowding of vehicles including trains and buses during this busy period. Highway police pulled over one bus on a Zhejiang Provincial Highway only to find a few extra people hiding away in the luggage compartment.

The bus had the allowed amount of 43 people on board, but a further 7 were discovered hiding out in the luggage bay

Ever wondered how they induce rain in China? Pick up trucks with rocket launchers!

admin — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:51:32 +0000

Cloud seeding is serious business in China, especially as various Eastern and Central provinces are under going severe drought at the moment that will no doubt affect world food prices in a serious way. No worries though, it seems Shandong province have the situation under control with their pick up trucks with a rocket launcher strapped to the back to seed clouds with silver iodine. Interestingly provincial governments have been having arguments as to who the rain actually belongs to before it has actually rained.

Most Awesome QQ spotted in Beijing Highway

admin — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:45:18 +0000

The Chinese New Year is technically over as of the 15th February and workers across China are heading back to their jobs in the big cities. This severely over packed QQ was spotted flying down the highway towards Beijing with suitcases strapped to the roof and bags bulging out of the car.

Old man seen flying around Qingdao in odd electric car

admin — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:08:07 +0000

I’ve seen this old man myself on a few occasions driving around in his bubble car, we tried to give chase so we could learn more about it but we were far too drunk and tired to give chase. Qingdao News were able to catch up with the old chap in question but he was unwilling to give any more information on the bubble car and certainly wouldn’t reveal any information on the cars price or manufacturer.

Wild boar enters Chinese hospital ground, dispatched by Police

admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:01:47 +0000

Recently a wild boar entered the hospital grounds of Taiyuan city hospital, the police were called and dispatched of the unruly hog in the professional manner that we have come to know the Public Security Bureau.

Although the boar was ultimately killed, it surely didn’t go to waste as a village would have eaten the beast.

A BMW Z4…. made entirely from bricks!

admin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:11:25 +0000

Chinese artist, Dai Yun, decided that he was going to make an art piece dedicated to the BMW Z4 roadster entirely out of bricks, we’re still trying to understand the thought process involved here but it looks like Dai Yun is trying to sell the bricked Z4 for around 600,000rmb or $90,000USD. At least the interior looks good!

After world’s longest bridge, China planning even longer bridge and undersea tunnel to Korea

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:27:45 +0000

Qingdao and Shandong government are eager to promote domestic and international trade between interior Chinese provinces and also between China and its regional neighbours, specifically Korea. Thus they have laid down plans to expand on the recently completed 5.4 billion USD bridge that was recently completed between Qingdao and Huangdao, and plan to build an even bigger one that will connect Shandong province with Liaoning province.

Shandong’s peninsula has the capital of Jinan in the West and the two international ports of Qingdao and Yantai in the South and North, it is planned for Yantai to build an oversea bridge to connect Yantai with Dalian city, the bridge will span 183km to reach Dalian city center and will cut out the need for ferries to take trucks across the Bohai sea and will eliminate a lengthy detour around China’s coast.

Other plans include an undersea tunnel, like the Euro tunnel that connects England and France, that would see Korea linked to Shandong province. No timing has been made clear for the project, and its unclear if South Korea has agreed to sign up to the project as of yet. We can

Man confuses brake and accelerator, drives through barrier into dry river

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:08:20 +0000

On the 11th January in Qingdao city at 6pm Ms. Han was driving home from work with her husband at the wheel, they wanted to park their Buick Regal alongside the river, except the husband confused the brake and accelerator pedals when reversing. The result being that the unnamed husband jumped up the sidewalk and through a set of concrete barriers diving down into the ice cold river – thankfully due to it being winter the river was a mere trickle but still covered in ice, the car ended up directly in the middle of the river.

Other than losing the cars bumper, the Buick was mostly okay the driver even drove on the frozen river bed looking for a way out, but the only way out was to call the police who called in a crane to lift the strucken car out, the driver underwent a breathalyzer test at the side of the road, whilst Ms. Han was rushed to hospital with light injuries.

Hubei man destroys police car with digger

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:43:00 +0000

Ever wanted to fight the law? One Hubei man decided that he had had enough of the Po-Po and smashed up a police car that was parked outside of a local police station, thankfully nobody was hurt in the smashing melee.

The police meat wagon was parked outside of the cop shop with its tail to the door, around 10:30am a digger came up the road and suddenly turned, aiming its bucket squarely at the police van, the digger then pushed the van into the police station and then tried to flee, but not before flipping over another car.

Diggers do not make for the best get away, and the 34 year old driver was swiftly caught, apparently he was upset with his cousin who works at the police station after a family quarrel after the offender crashed his brother in law’s car, clearly driving is not a profession that this man should take up, at all.

Qingdao gets worlds longest bridge

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:38:37 +0000

At 26.4 miles long, the Qingdao Haiwan Bridge would easily cross the English Channel and is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in the American state of Louisiana.

The vast structure links the centre of the booming port city of Qingdao in eastern China‘s Shandong Province with the suburb of Huangdao, spanning the wide blue waters of Jiaozhou Bay.

Built in just four years at a cost of £5.5 billion, the sheer scale of the bridge reveals the advances made by Chinese engineers in recent years.

No longer dependant on western expertise for such sophisticated projects, the six-lane road bridge is supported by more than 5,200 columns and was designed by the Shandong Gausu Group. When it opens to traffic later this year, the bridge is expected to carry over 30,000 cars a day and will cut the commute between the city of Qingdao and the sprawling suburb of Huangdao by between 20 and 30 minutes.

At least 10,000 workers toiled in two teams around the clock to build the bridge, which was constructed from opposite ends and connected in the middle in the last few days.