Chinese Auto - 06' Beiing Auto Show

Excerpts from reports of Bejing Auto Show.

Homegrown Chinese brands stole the show Saturday at the opening of the Beijing Auto Show, upstaging their bigger and better-known international counterparts with original designs and big ambitions.
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Sleek Chinese high-end sedans, hybrids, roomy SUVs, and convertibles in rainbow colors competed cheek by jowl with their foreign counterparts and in many cases drew the larger crowds.
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The most remarkable thing, Murtaugh said, is that the knock-offs of U.S. and European vehicles that dominated the Chinese car industry five years ago are gone, replaced by original designs.
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"The Japanese took a long time to get into being original,"
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Chinese brands now account for about one-fifth of mainland sales but the government has said it wants to see homegrown cars take 60 percent of the market share by 2010.

Comments: Looks like the domestic players are attacking all frontiers.