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All New Haval H6 เตรียมลุยตลาดเอสยูวีไฮบริดพร้อมท้าสู้คู่แข่ง MG HS
รุ่นที่สามเป็นระบบเกียร์คลัตช์คู่ 9 สปีดใหม่ต่อมาในเดือนมีนาคมปี 2021 Haval H6 ก็ออกรุ่นพิเศษในชื่อ China-Chic
พาชม 2020 Big motor Sale ภาพจริงครบทุกบูธ มีรถพร้อมขาย สไตล์ New Normal
ซึ่งเป็นรถที่คงความทนทานและอเนกประสงค์สุดขีด โดยมีราคารุ่น 3 ประตูอยู่ที่ 5.4 ล้าน และรุ่น 5 ประตูราคาเริ่มต้น 5.8 ล้านบาทMaserati
2021 BIMS ยืนยันจัดมอเตอร์โชว์ปลายเดือนนี้ มีรถบางค่ายไม่มาด้วย เผยทุกข้อมูลก่อนเริ่มงาน
เตรียมพบกันในงานนี้รายชื่อแบรนด์รถยนต์ที่มาร่วมงาน ได้แก่ Ford, BMW, MINI, Suzuki, Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, Maserati
Stellantis การรวมตัวของ PSA และ Fiat Chrysler รวม 14 ยี่ห้อ แต่มีขายไทยแค่ 1?
เข้ากับบริษัท Fiat Chrysler Auto ซึ่งเป็นบริษัทแม่ของ Fiat Lancia Alfa Romeo Abarth Chrysler Dodge Jeep Maserati
ข้ามไทยไปเลย!!! 2021 Nissan X-Trail เปิดตัวจีนเดือนหน้า พร้อมโชว์ Ariya และ e-Power ครบครัน
ดูเหมือนตลาดจีนจะยังเป็นตลาดขนาดใหญ่ที่ Nissan (นิสสัน) ยังมุ่งมั่นที่จะเปิดตลาดอย่างต่อเนื่อง โดยในงาน Auto China
New 2020 Maserati Levante Trofeo Launch Edition 590 แรงม้า หนึ่งเดียวในไทย 20.49 ล้านบาท
มาเซราติ เลอวานเต้ (Maserati Levante) รถยนต์นั่งเอนกประสงค์ขาแรงจากค่ายรถสัญชาติอิตาลี ในเครือมาสเตอร์
Motor Expo 2020 รวมรถใหม่ ตั้งแต่ Toyota GR Yaris, Volvo XC40 Recharge ยัน Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV และ Porsche Panamera
เคียงข้างไปกับรถรุ่นอื่น ๆ ที่ทำตลาดอยู่ ก็เรียกว่าเป็นการสร้างสีสันให้กับแบรนด์ได้พอสมควร แม้จะดูเงียบเหงาไปหน่อยก็ตามMaserati
Global NCAP ชี้ชัด รถที่ขายในประเทศยากจน ยังปลอดภัยไม่เพียงพอ
1996 ก่อนที่จะขยายอาณาเขตไปดูแลในยังพื้นที่ต่าง ๆ เช่น Latin NCAP Australasian NCAP ASEAN NCAP และ China
น้ำมันดีเซล B10 ห้ามเติมรถหลายรุ่น เผยรายชื่อรุ่นในไทย รถยุโรปรับแค่ B7
Cruze 2.0 LTZ ดีเซล Ford Focus 2.0 TDCi Land Rover และ Range Rover รุ่นเครื่อง SD4, TD4 และ TD5 ทุกรุ่น Maserati
Motor Expo 2020 เปิดตัวรถใหม่ 9 รุ่นดัง MG5, Outlander, Carnival ฯลฯ พร้อมแง้มแคมเปญเด็ด
รถมาเปิดตัวใหม่ แบรนด์ รุ่น BMW 220i Gran Coupe BMW 430i Gran Coupe Maserati
พาชม 2020 Bangkok International Motor Show การจัดงานแบบ New Normal ที่ดูไม่เหมือนเดิมในปีนี้
ปีนี้ยกทัพกันมาครบครันทุกแบรนด์ในค่าย เริ่มตั้งแต่การเปิดตัวอย่างเป็นทางการของ Peugeot 2008 รถเล็กรุ่นใหม่ของค่าย ขณะที่ Maserati
Haval H6 ถุงลมนิรภัยไม่กางขณะทดสอบการชน แต่ทำไมเราว่าไม่มีอะไรน่ากังวล?
มีข่าวการพบปัญหาเกี่ยวกับความปลอดภัย เมื่อถุงลมนิรภัยด้านข้าง และม่านถุงลมนิรภัยไม่กาง ระหว่างถูกทำการทดสอบการชนโดย C-NCAP (China
รีวิวโพสต์ maserati china
Jeep is the most global brand of Stellantis with real presence in the three key markets (USA, China, Europe) and important operations in the rest of the world. #Maserati is the most sporty brand. #Lancia #Vauxhall operate in only one market https://t.co/HxnePjUiys
Culture, art, nature, tradition, modernity and the long road to be travelled. The Grand Touring spirit of Maserati goes to China. #MaseratiChinaGrandTour #Maserati https://t.co/PRRQrDbSxV
V 'Porsche in Melbourne, Maserati in China': Hilarious love letter sent by international student seeking a 'pretty white girl' goes viral for all the wrong reasons ====== https://t.co/1YumTAqCmX https://t.co/G7u9JcvuNf
JUST IN: Maserati recalled over 4,300 vehicles in China due to leaking fuel lines, according to a Xinhua News report citing a Chinese market regulator https://t.co/o2c9iHfe80
Enjoy surviving another rough weekend. #ほぼ日手帳 #bulletjournaling #ferrari #maserati #usa #china #business #mazda #妖怪ウォッチ https://t.co/wdi0Vzkvej
Abandoned car dealership housing Carrera GT, C5 Z06 & 575 Superamerica with manual gearbox sitting in what was known as the first Ferrari & Maserati 3S Center in China opened in 2005 and closed shortly thereafter but at least they weren’t left outside to rot. https://t.co/zotggPoLTY
Maserati has partnered with Alibaba Group’s online marketplace Tmall to transform two of its dealerships in China into “smart stores”—the first automaker to tap Alibaba’s smart-retail technologies. https://t.co/bEB51dQ4hV https://t.co/P6CCm9Mq4h
Market Recap: https://t.co/GxoySswfn0 The Wall of Worry revisited + China is scrambling to contain the economic crisis + Dr. Fauci encourages me to get the booster + The hypocrisy of Maserati Manchin + Charts $SPY $QQQ $IWM $DXY $GLD $TLT $TBT $VIX $AAPL $TSLA $BTC $AMC https://t.co/GVHaOZyXu6
Look at the average age of Maserati Quattroporte customers in China. Gender split is QI, too. https://t.co/k7Va5pGSJ1
La #Maserati MC20 ha vinto il China Car of The Year 2021 https://t.co/m6rX34g2cL https://t.co/sIvYITJkCI
รีวิว Q&A maserati china
What is the current situation and prospect of the car industry in China?
Ramamurthy has poonted out the short term risk and concerns. I'm bullish on the long term. Regarding normal passenger cars:, However automobile ownership is an important badge of scucess of the growing middle class especially outside of 1st teir cities. The consumers is still hungry for it. It is also an important indicator for the government to project the scucess of the middle class and ecomonic growth. Car manufacturing is an important job creator, incentive for growth is obvious. Regarding Luxury Cars:, Recent office raids on Benz or alligation on price fixing are part of Beijing's political initiative to crack down corruption and perception of lavish spending and wealth inequality. However I see these initiative targeting top end manufacture more for perception, and ALOT more need to be done to eliminate the thirst for luxury items for those who can afford it. Between my tenure as motorsport marketing manger at Ferrari & Maserati China between 05-07 we doubled our sale year on year. I keep in touch with colleges who are now spread all over the industry and its still going strong. So strong I'm continuing to see LOSER European sports car brand surviving through sales in China. The market is big and its very much a land grab.
What are examples of things that rich people have done just because they can?
A Chinese owner, of Maserati worth ,£276,000 ,smashed his car just because he was angry with dealer over poor customer service. The owner who was identified only by his surname Wang saw his £276,000 model turned into wreck in Qingdao, China. Not just he smashed it but he also put banner accusing the Italian manufacturer of poor decision-making.
Why do Maserati cars depreciate so fast?
No Matter the Purchase Price, I know I will Never Own a Maserati Again. Look at this amazing Maserati Quattroporte; a beautiful touring sedan… 72.2% depreciation, about a $97,178 difference between New and Used… WHY? One Answer Maybe… The Service Department Public Humiliation: Destroying a new Maserati Quattroporte in Public A man in China, so distraught over the cost of service (I believe the bill was less than $400) hired a gang to destroy his new Maserati in front of a crowd entering the Auto Show. He was upset about the quality of the build, believed the Chinese people deserved better. His public display was carried worldwide. I understand. I sued the manufacturer over my Maserati. And won. My Personal Story: Why I Sued the Manufacturer and How I Won. (Warning: Contains Car Enthusiast lingo ,Urban Dictionary: Car Enthusiast,) Maserati practically invented the “GT” almost 75 years ago. The history of racing, Formula 1 massive success. These cars were historic, amazing, and the feeling of Adventure… I got a job offer to work for Lucas Film. Dream job. How to celebrate? Buy a dream car, of course. My wife needed a new car and to celebrate, we bought a Maserati. Growing up, I Always Loved the Maserati as a Beautiful Supercar Underdog… The year was ,1990, Following the Iraq invasion of Kuwait Desert Shield Begins as the United States and the UK send troops to Kuwait. The US enters a bad recession which will have repercussions over the next few years throughout the world. "The Simpsons " is seen for the first time on FOX TV. Following the Berlin Wall falling East and West Germany reunite. Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first web page on the WWW and it is proven that there is a hole in the Ozone Layer above the North Pole, also the First in-car GPS Satellite Navigation System goes on sale from Pioneer. AND Maserati builds a more affordable roadster! Now, there was one within reach. Lee Iaccoca who was responsible for the Mustang, Carole Shelby, and the Ford GT program (See Ford vs. Ferrari…excellent car movie)had bought Maserati as Chrysler's CEO and made the Maserati TC! Iacocca again teamed up with Maserati's Alejandro de Tomaso… (they created the Pantera together) What a team! This car will have to be exceptional! Image, producing a “breakthrough sporty coupe”; the Maserati/Chrysler TC! Its engine was a 250-hp, 16-valve Maserati engineered Mitsubishi-built 3.0-liter V-6. We bought this… The two-seater had a hard and soft-top (like the Mercedes 450 SL), was built in Milan, Italy, (from 1989 to 1991), the base TC starting at around $33,000 in 1989 (nearly $69,000 in today's dollars). (Ok car folks, I know in retrospect it was an Italian Edsel, but at the time, it was damn sexy, on the cover of magazines!) Ours was a Royal Cabernet Pearl exterior and a buff-colored interior. It came with a removable hardtop with portholes, like the 1955 Ford T-Bird. It had every option including a 10-speaker sound system with a CD player(!), six-way power-adjustable Italian leather bucket seats, leather-covered instrument- and door-trim panels, and more. There was more leather in this car than my Rolls Royce! More leather than in an S&M Bar! It was puffy and soft and felt like what we imagined were the interiors of private jets (that turned out later to be much more spartan!). When the Dream Becomes a Nightmare… Within weeks, the problems began. trips back into the service department. We had a problem with shoes getting eaten by some kind of acid. You don’t know what hell is until your Sicilian wife has her Monolos scared. I kept insisting that they (the dealer) were not solving the problem. The dealer detailed the car and said all good. It wasn’t. The home-front was not happy! Another pair of spike healed, overpriced, painful testimonies to fashion idiocy got ruined. I needed help! The third trip, a discovery! Service Department: “It’s brake fluid from a leaking master cylinder! No problem it's under warranty. Why don’t we do the first tune-up early while it's in? We will even give you a loaner car.” I am thinking this… We get this… (Lee Iacocca not included, your mileage may vary…) How it gets worse… They don’t have the parts in stock. They have to send to Italy…How long will that take? No time at all. We did your tuneup in advance. Me (something like): “Are we sure we needed it? The tune-up is a few thousand miles early. It's a new car. When can we get it back? ” Them: “Should be any day now…” Actually 4 Months of haggling and monthly car payments, as a Californian, I seek legal help from the DMV and enact the California Lemon Law; Now, I cannot use a lawyer, I have to represent myself. With intense work, advice from Berkeley Law and NOLO Press, I catch them in a lie and begin to get justice! Luckily I had time on my hands; the Lucas Film deal fell apart! We get a settlement and they give us back all our money, car payments, and everything. I give them back their insipid K-car. We’re even, right? WRONG. The Dealership Sues me in Small Claims Court for the Tune-up! The car that was a lemon, they tuned up without the brakes and then they sued me for the “repairs” on a car did not own! I never saw it. I prepared for my court date, hot under the collar. Again, no lawyer allowed…(thank goodness for NOLO Press!) There have been heated exchanges with the Dealership. Numerous lies and other issues. My last call was finished with a defiant, “I WILl SEE YOU IN COURT!” I enter with files, paperwork, and proof of the Lemon. I have visual aids prepared and an affidavit that I never took delivery on the car again. We arrive at the courthouse. I enter and wait to be called. There’s a guy in a double-breasted suit with a Hankie-poof sticking way out of his pocket. Gold Pinky ring and gold chains. You know the type. That’s my adversary. I prepare for our inevitable hours of back and forth. The following dialogue is dramatized as I cannot remember the actual words,. Judge: “I see you are both here. Mr. Sanford, tell me about this case, you are being sued for not paying the Service Bill on your…(looks down) Maserati?!” Me: “Yes your honor. This car had faulty brakes that were being replaced but never were and they tuned it up while it was in the shop. It was there for months. Ultimately, the car was taken back, under California’s Lemon Law. I never got to drive it again, and…” Judge: ”Wait a minute. You never drove it or picked it up from the dealer? It was a lemon?” Me: “Yes, your honor.” Judge: “Is this true? Mr. Sanford never picked up his car?” Other Guy in the overstuffed suit: “Yes your honor. But I hardly see how that …” Judge (Dramatically): “The court finds in favor of Mr. Sanford. Dismissed.” OG: “But your honor, that’s not fair…” Judge (Admonishing): “You are talking about not fair? This man was without his car, a lemon, for months and you want to charge him for a tune-up on a car he never drove again?” That was it. It was over. I will never own a Maserati again! Post Script,: ,I Got Called by NBC Dateline The story of the car doesn’t end here. I got a call from a producer for ,NBC Dateline,. Apparently, I was one of the very few people who actually won under the Lemon Law. They want to do a feature piece on it and this car. The dealership rolled back the odometer and sold the car as I’m not a demo for a second time! They never disclosed on the title (as required by law in the state of California) that it was purchased back under the Lemon Law. A woman who bought the car almost lost her life when the brakes went out. I thought long and hard about going on the show and decided (after discussions with my Chairman of the Board and Lawyers of my new company) that I didn’t need to “poke the bear” or “feed my ego”. (I did, however, appear on her behalf in court. What they did to her wasn’t right.)
Could Australia be able to defend against the Chinese if helped by the Americans?
China hasn’t ‘attacked’ Australia! China has walked away! They are not the same things. - China was the largest buyer of Australian exports and they used to buy more than any other nation - ,China hits 48.8pc of Australian exports, but our political leaders - the Australia right-wingers headed by Scott Morrison - was repeating all of Trumps attacks on China. China decided to find other suppliers of every single thing they used to buy from Australia but they did offer a few early warnings. China started to warn Australia very gently. They stopped the purchase of a shipload of barley because of contamination and the results was that the Australian government complained. China then stopped purchasing meat from 4 meat processing companies for unhygienic conditions even though there were over 800 such plants in Australia. Another very gentle heads-up. Our leaders were simply to stupid to understand what was happening or just didn’t care. China finally started to get serious. They stopped buying a host of products, they placed tariffs of up to 242% on other products, and they now only buy iron ore from us and they are also working to open the Simandou mine in Africa - it was given the title of The Pilbara Buster where most Australian iron ore can be found - which is one of the worlds largest and highest grade iron ore bodies in the world. As soon as the Simandou mine is running I expect China will cease all purchases from Australia. - The great thing for China is that they now have secure sources for everything they used to buy from us and there is a lesson and that lesson is being sent to the whole world. Do not attack us, do not lie about us, do not think we are inferior, do not think that we will not retaliate, do not try to take advantage of us. Treat us with respect and we will all get along well. - I expect that in 2 or 3 years China will have turned it’s back on Australia completely and forever. - I’d like to paint a picture for you if I may? You own a store and this one guy comes in every single day and buys 48.8% of every single thing in your store, he pays on time every time, and he is polite. Would you insult that guy? Seriously - WOULD YOU? I wouldn’t. In fact I’d be extra polite and I’d ask him if there were any other products that he might want to buy from me so I could stock them. In fact, for a customer that did all those things for me I would buy him his choice of a Maserati or a Rolls Royce for Christmas every year and I certainly would NOT attack and insult him.
Why is Maserati on Tmall?
Because Alibaba’s advertisement ecosystem - which includes TMall - is the largest digital network in China. It’s capabilities go far beyond e-commerce focused performance marketing but cover all aspects of ATL & BTL marketing. Here is an interview with Maserati CEO Mirko Bordiga: Maserati Revs Up Online Sales with Tmall - Alizila
Is India really changing under PM Modi?
India is Maserati! There could be three kinds of answers to this question. For the Modi fans India is changing and going into the right direction like it has never done before. For anti Modi people India is changing again but it is going in the wrong direction like it has never done before Make a list of past 6 to 7 Prime Ministers before Modi and you will get your answer Back in 2015 I was studying my Masters in International Business in South of France and used to study different subjects related to economy and business across the globe. Being among only two Indians in the class of 32 which had 16 nationalities I was surprised to see that during all the classes, the maximum number of times a country was quoted by students and professors during my entire curriculum were only US, China and India. US because of reasons you and I both are aware of. China because no country has grown at such a rapid pace over the past 4 or 5 decades like China. India because off the growth it has seen in past 4–5 years. Now this could be debatable, for example India did not do any development for past 60 years or so but I am just giving an example of what I actually saw in the classroom. Prime Minister Modi was often quoted by the professors along with XI jinping for the economic policies they are trying to implement in India and China. It is true that no country can change overnight for example Singapore which was no less than a barren Island 60-70 years ago is today world's top destination for businesses. China what you see today is the outcome of what they've been doing for past 5–6 decades. India has just started that Revolution and it will take some time to reach where we belong. India was 25% of global GDP when British came and it was less than 1% when they left. When Modi came into power India was 8th largest economy and today it has surpassed even France and become 6th largest economy. India is bound to surpass UK and become 5th this year. There have been more bank accounts, household gas connections, electricity for poor people who cannot afford it or had no access to it. There have been some drawbacks as well in terms of governance but then name a government which had no drawbacks. In hollywood movie, Wolf of Wall Street , Leonardo DiCaprio says to his client, please judge me on my wins and not my loses, because I've so few loses. Now whether you choose to vote for him or against India will continue to thrive but when there is a flyway and you have a f****** Maserati, Would you like to use the first gear or the sixth? India is Maserati.
What are the most expensive gifts K-pop idols received from their fandoms?
Idols do get a lot of gifts from their fans, but there are some times when fans go above the norms and gift them ,something special. EXO Xiumin: Xiumin fans raised $2500 USD for an “idol themed subway”. It ran for a month, starting from April 9 2018 at the Seoul Subway, Line No. 7. IU: UAENA too proved that they’re not behind others when it comes to giving their idol the most precious gifts. IU’s fandom raised $61,000 to give her a forest on her birthday. NCT and SUPERM Taeyong: Fans collected $30,000 to earn a spot on the Digital Billboard on the popular NY Times Square for Taeyong on his birthday. EXO Sehun: The maknae of EXO became the first K-Pop idol to have a full-page ad on the New York Times newspaper. Fans are said to have paid $200,000 for it. He’s also been gifted a land in Scotland by his Chinese fans. RED VELVET Yeri: A fansite called “God Chose Yeri” gifted the idol a piece of land in Scotland for her 20th birthday. RED VELVET Wendy: Fans gave Wendy various expensive studio equipment when she said she wanted to try producing music. BTS Jungkook: Fans gifted Jungkook a 50-gram gold bar on his birthday, well received by their “Golden Maknae”. BTS V: On 29th December, BTS Vocal Line member V became the first Korean Celebrity to get a solo tribute on Burj Khalifa with his solo-track, Winter Bear, playing in the background. He also became the first Kpop idol to have his birthday ad on a satellite. The satellite is called Ladybird-I. It is a $16 Million USD satellite that was launched by China ‘s Commsat. Fans used the phrase “Kim Taehyung Universe Domination” and even trended the hashtag on twitter. (Thank you ,Liza Dorian, for pointing it out) EXO Chanyeol: Chanyeol’s fan gifted him a customized Edelweiss piano which can play itself when connected to an album. EXO Lay: Lay’s fans held a parade of the huge cruise ship, Maseratis, to celebrate his first ever solo concert in China. SUPER JUNIOR: ELFs surprised their idols by establishing a school in Africa for their 10th anniversary since debut. Super Junior have expressed their desire of building a school for the less fortunate, and fans became their genie and made this wish a reality. There are also many idols who have been gifted stars in the sky for their birthdays. Some of them are: ,BTS V, SEVENTEEN Mingyu, SEVENTEEN Minghao, AND BTS Jin Your local friendly Kpop fan~
What's the most ridiculous case of road rage you've ever encountered?
The Misadventures of Danny Cee Part 1: Samurai Jack There was a point where I was living in Arcadia, California. During this time, my work required me to drive onto the I-10 freeway. The road that led to the onramp was two lanes, and the right lane became a “right turn only” lane, which means only the left lane goes to the freeway. Naturally, ,everyone, would be in the left lane in the morning, waiting in line (this is near Los Angeles, CA so traffic was ,ass,). I was minding my business one morning, waiting in line for roughly 15 minutes. When I was almost to the front about two cars from the red light, a rich Chinese kid (more on rich Chinese kids in a bit) in a white Maserati Ghibli stopped in the ,right lane, beside me and attempted to ,cut in line,. Of course, my ,mama, didn’t raise me to be no pussy, so I inched forward and refused to let this self-centered, hedonistic, arrogant, suckling on the teat of society, pompous canker-blossom cut me. He inched, I inched. He inched and honked, I inched. It was the battle of the inches, ironic considering we’re both Asian <nudge nudge followed by scornful snickers>. Anyhow, the light turned green, and I fully expected this self-entitled prick to speed up in front of the car before us and fly onto the highway. ,Instead,, he cut the guy in front of us off, and promptly ,stopped his car,. (To skip the exposition, go to the BIG BOLD LETTERS below.) I digress: ,In some parts of the San Gabriel Valley Region of Los Angeles County, a lot of rich Chinese have settled into communities here. They knock down old houses and redevelop them into mansions before selling them. There are generally three types of rich Chinese here: Rich businessmen and their families/ Old money (entire families who are well known in China for being rich through generations) Rich former government officials who embezzled millions from China and escaped to America (This is a side effect of Communism, ladies and gentlemen) Chinese Triad/Other Chinese organized crime (Yes, there are more than just the Triad) ,I suspect that Samurai Jack was in this category. BIG BOLD LETTERS: Previously, on The Misadventures of Danny Cee: Anyhow, the light turned green, and I fully expected this self-entitled prick to speed up in front of the car before us and fly onto the highway. ,Instead,, he cut the guy in front of us off, and promptly ,stopped his car,. Now… This rich Chinese kid exits his Maserati with a ,FREAKING KATANA. He’s screaming expletives in Chinese at me, while everyone else in line records on their phones. In lieu of a firearms concealed carry permit (because ,good luck getting one,, if you live in LA), I have a variety of “California Legal” karambit knives, tomahawks, and even machetes hidden wherever I spend lots of time (including my car). So at this point,, I’m wondering: Would it be wise to exit my car, throw a tomahawk and lodge it into this idiot kid’s skull over a ,traffic disagreement,? Yeahh… I’ll pass. So I rolled up my windows and ignored his obvious anger… to which he thanked me by ,cutting my driver’s side mirror off,. I can’t for the life of me find the pictures from that day, but ,nobody, cuts the mirror off on ,my baby, and gets away with it. After he drove off, I chased him onto the freeway (he may have had a Maserati, but I had what was pretty much a ,rally car, so I kept up with him easily Anyhow, I memorized his license plate, called the cops, and they made a report (though he was gone already). Cops never got back to me after that, though. Unfortunately, to this day this jackass still hasn’t gotten punished for his crimes against humanity. For those of you ,loyal readers, out there in my area who want to mess with this guy, his license plate number was 7JLS406. It’s a white Maserati Ghibli LOL. But yeah, that’s the most ridiculous case of road rage ,I’ve, ever encountered personally.
What has it been like to watch China change so drastically in the last 10-15 years?
Living in China across this period of tumultuous change has been so, so many things: thrilling, agonizing, spirit-lifting, soul-crushing, inspiring, and depressing—and everything in between. I've experienced moments of soaring pride and abject shame. For me, as I suspect is the case with many, the pace of change is what makes China so compelling—what draws so many to China, and what draws so many Chinese to its epicenters in the coastal cities. China is in a moment of such obvious historical significance that it would be almost unthinkable for me to miss out on what happens as it continues to lurch forward. Well, mostly forward. Being witness to the transformation forces one to confront many of the bigger questions about history, culture, politics—hell, about the whole human condition. At least in my case, living here has forced me to rethink many assumptions that I had come to take for granted growing up in America. In particular, I came to challenge much of the ethical/cultural absolutism that I (rightly or wrongly) attribute to my American upbringing. I came to an appreciation for the sheer weight of the historical baggage that Chinese carry. But I also came to understand just how malleable people can be, too—their ability to change and to adapt, and to do so very quickly. To have lived in China across this period is to have wrestled with the contradictory truths of continuity and change. Just a bit of personal background: I was born in the U.S. to parents who were both born on the Chinese mainland. I first visited China in the summer of 1981, and again in the summer of 1986, and it was the massive change across that period that compelled me to shift the focus of my study to China, and after that point, I started paying much more attention to China's history and politics. I lived in China from August of 1988 to June of 1989, leaving after the suppression of the student-led protests that year. I returned to China most summers while a grad student in the early 90s, and then moved to China and 1996 after dropping out of a doctoral program. I've lived in Beijing ever since. I'm married to a native Beijinger, work at a Chinese company, and play in a rock band where I'm the only non-native Chinese member. One caveat: People in the U.S. tend to focus on the changes in the last decade or so, but to my mind, the biggest and deepest changes in China took place in the 1980s, in the initial years of reform and opening. The physical and infrastructural changes may not have been as pronounced and conspicuous as during the following decades, but the change in mentality during this time, especially in the major coastal cities, was momentous. I'll use 1988 as a kind of default baseline for describing the changes, because that's the first time I lived in China as an adult, thinking and occasionally writing about conditions in China. The ,physical and infrastructural transformation, is the most obvious, and to some extent it underpins much of what's happened. There's no category that falls under this topic that hasn't witnessed startlingly rapid improvement: Railways, highways, airports, air transport, trucking, ocean shipping, urban roads, bridges, subways, electrification, telecommunications (both wire line and wireless)—you name it. Because it's such a key determinant in the overall look of city, ,changes in architecture, in China's urban centers might be a good place to start. In Beijing in 1988, there was only one building I can think of that was over 30 stories tall: the Bank of China building on the west Second Ring Road at Fuchengmen. The number of steel-and-glass towers in Beijing (let along Shanghai, where there's a veritable forest of skyscrapers) is well beyond anyone's easy tally. Construction was uniformly shoddy. Typical buildings were concrete slabs covered in hideous white bathroom tile with cheap blue glass windows. A lamentable period in the mid- to late-1990s saw the construction of dozens of western-style buildings with "Chinese hats" thrown on them as an afterthought. Fortunately, standards have improved. The white-tile, blue-glass construction has been banned in Beijing, and no one is mandating the "Chinese characteristics" that produced those awful roofs. Instead, Beijing and China's other major cities have become giant, willing canvasses for some of the world's great architects—Rem Koolhas (the CCTV Tower in Beijing), Norman Foster (Beijing Capital Airport's Terminal 3), Zaha Hadid (the Galaxy Soho complex in Beijing and Guangzhou Opera House, now under construction). Life at ,street leve,l has undergone equally rapid transformation. In 1988, it was still quite common to see carts drawn by horses, mules, and donkeys, carrying rebar, bricks, ceramic tiles, or (in winter) round, perforated briquettes of pressed coal. Nowadays, one still occasionally sees a mule-drawn cart carrying apples or peaches in Beijing, but it's really only the fruit sellers from orchards on Beijing's periphery, not building materials or fuel. Of course, the sea of bicycles that was still a common site on any urban thoroughfare well into the late 1990s in Beijing is a thing of the past. Kids still ride bikes, of course, but these days you don't see so many of the heavy, steel-framed single-speed classics (Phoenix, Forever, and Flying Pigeon were the big brands): Instead, middle school students all have fancy mountain bikes or BMX models with ridiculously complex spring suspensions. Now it's all cars, to my constant vexation. ,Traffic ,started to get noticeably bad by about 2001. Just a few short years before that, in the late 1990s, when I used to prowl Beijing in a red Jeep Cherokee, there were never any traffic jams to speak of. People parked haphazardly, with never a charge. The types of cars on the road have radically changed, too: Where in say 1998 the roads were still dominated by domestically-produced Daihatsu Charades, thin-sided Changchun "bread loaf cars" (a kind of crappy minivan), and Cherokees, and Citroens with the occasional (and markedly more upscale) Shanghai Volkswagen Jetta or Santana, a mere five years later there were all manner of luxury cars: Mercedes and BMW, and of course the ubiquitous Audi ("the official car of official corruption," a journalist friend of mine once quipped). Today, in the age of conspicuous consumption, Beijing is packed with luxury cars and more: I see more density of Maseratis, Ferraris, and Porsches here than I've seen in any other city. The ,telecommunications revolution, has been dizzying everywhere, but probably nowhere more than in China. In the late 1980s, getting a phone installed would take literally weeks, and would cost what was then a small fortune: Several thousand yuan at a time when average households pulled down perhaps a few hundred yuan monthly. Only elites had phones. No wonder then that when cellular service became available to the public in the mid-1990s there was a rapid leapfrog effect. In 1996, mobile phones still cost over 10,000 yuan and service was prohibitively expensive. People called cell phones ,da ge da ,(大哥大), literally "big brother big" in snarky reference to the big-shots who could afford them. Over the next five years the price plummeted and they became incredibly ubiquitous, but what blew me away was the extent of network coverage. Today, coverage is near-total for most people. Elevators, subways, parking garages—there's almost nowhere one goes in day-to-day life where you don't get a good strong signal, with the exception of whatever apartment it is I happen to be living in. An astonishing 900 million people now have mobile phones in China. Going to the bank to do something quite simple—say, wiring money to someone, or closing out an account—used to be something that would take practically a full day. Now you can do most banking online (though the insistence of so many Chinese banks on using Active X means Mac users and people who hate IE-based browsers are left out), and at least some banks are delightfully efficient. (Here I should single out China Merchants Bank for praise). The improvement in basic ,availability of goods,—something made possible by China's huge investment in transportation infrastructure and power, by policies that encouraged manufacturing, and by China's opening to the outside world, is another change in life that's almost impossible to overstate. When I lived in China for ten months in 1988, ordinary consumers had very limited access to imported goods, and what was made in China back then, before China started producing so much of the world's consumer products, was not what you'd call export quality. Major Chinese cities had what were called "Friendship Stores," where one could only purchase goods with Foreign Exchange Certificates (or FEC), theoretically available only to visiting foreigners who traded them for hard currency. As late as 1989, many commonplace electronics like decent portable cassette players, higher-end bicycles, imported liquor and the like were still only available at these Friendship Stores for FEC, and the only Chinese who had access to these FEC either traded for them on the black market (back when the Renminbi was artificially high, not artificially low, and there ,was ,a black market!) or had relatives living abroad. Now the material abundance is almost suffocating. The sheer number of enormous malls in cities like Beijing and Shanghai seems to me completely unsupportable, and yet they continue to multiply. A consumer here now basically wants for nothing. Remember this was once a place where only recently relocated workers at multinational companies, diplomats, and journalists were given extra remuneration because it was regarded as a "hardship post." Availability of foodstuff,s also changed drastically across this period. In the late fall, as late as the late 1990s, Beijingers would routinely buy hundreds of pounds of Napa cabbage and bundles of green onions and stack them like cords of wood in their courtyards or their stairwells. Here in North China, the selection of vegetables in winter was truly depressing. Now, fresh produce in tremendous variety is available year-round, and the stacks of Napa cabbage have long since vanished. Things that were once rare, like decent beef, wine, Scotch, or good imported cheeses are now available at the many specialty import grocery shops at least in the first-tier cities. While the first privately-run ,restaurants, appeared in the capital in the mid-1980s, even by the end of the decade the overwhelming majority were state-run eateries staffed by the surliest of waitstaff who would curtly inform you that they were out of about 80% of the things you would order at a given meal. Hours were short: lunch was served from 11:30 to 1, and dinner from 5 to 7. Arrive any later and you were out of luck. There was a radical transformation in dining that took place from the mid-90s across a decade, and by the early 2000s in Beijing there was a whole kilometer-long stretch lined on both sides by 24-hour restaurants representing every regional Chinese cuisine you can imagine. Today in Beijing, apart from having great restaurants serving every imaginable regional Chinese fare, there are also restaurants where decent food from every major world cuisine is available. Just to name some of the more obscure world cuisines represented here, there's an Azerbaijani restaurant, a Georgian one, an Uzbek restaurant, several Mongolian places, at least one Moroccan, one Hungarian, and one Romanian restaurant, a couple of Louisiana Cajun joints, and at least two North Korean restaurants. And there are at least a dozen Indian eateries, Japanese restaurants in the hundreds I would guess, several dozen Italian places, and plenty of French, Thai, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Lebanese, Turkish, and German places. The only badly underrepresented cuisines here, as far as I'm concerned, are Mexican (one, maybe two decent restaurants) and Ethiopian (as of now, none!). Oh, and the service in most restaurants has gone from intolerably surly to tolerably good, even in the absence of tipping. The kind of material transformation I've described has naturally brought on horrid, catastrophic, environmental change,. This is obvious to anyone who's spent any time here. The air quality is wretched. The water in something like 80% of freshwater lakes and rivers is dangerously contaminated. Soil erosion and desertification are serious problems because of massive deforestation. These aren't abstract problems: As I said, anyone who comes here sees the environmental problem at some level. Of course the most critical changes haven't been in hardware, but software. The kind of ,social and cultural transformation ,is something one could write many, many books on. Chinese people have undergone the kind of change that one would think would cause major psychological harm in most populations. And while not everyone has come up through this process with their sanity intact, most folks here strike me as impressively stable, resilient and mutable. The fact that for the overwhelming majority of Chinese under 40 today material life has gotten better year after year for the whole of their conscious lives has had a real impact on people. On the one hand, it produces a kind of optimism and buoyancy that's a bit like the way Americans of the late 1950s felt. On the other, quite naturally, there's now a sense of entitlement, and spiraling expectations out of life. Consider this: Many young Chinese who've recently graduated from college are actually angry and feel a grave injustice has somehow been done because they can't afford to buy property. I wonder, though, in what major nation can the average recent college graduate realistically expect to buy even a modest condominium. China's (in)famous One Child Policy has of course produced a whole generation of urban youngsters, the oldest of them now in their early 30s, who have no siblings and grew up with six doting adults around them: their two parents and four grandparents. This seems to have had different effects on different individuals, and I hesitate to make generalizations about the generation of the "Little Emperors." On the one hand I find many who are emotionally crippled: dependent, spoiled, entitled, whiny. On the other I've met many who are equally independent (sometimes to a fault), very self-possessed and confident, and much more assertive than Chinese of an earlier generation. While there are some high-minded, public-spirited individuals, it would be hard to argue with the assertion that the dominant ethos has become rampantly materialistic. Chinese today are on balance far more consumption-oriented than their recent forebears. People have often spoken of a "moral vacuum," and I tend to think this has been overstated, but I do recognize that for many there's a lack of moral nourishment if not a total vacuum. Money-madness manifests itself the same in any society, I suppose, but in China seeing it up close has been very dispiriting. The virtues of thrift and frugality turn into miserliness and a willingness to cut corners. Business ethics are too often just thrown by the wayside. There is very little mutual trust. In the cities, especially, there's a mad rush to get ahead. The pace of life can be absurdly fast—and this in a place where I once distinctly recall musing, "You know what I love about this place? It's the slow pace of life." You see it in the way people walk: it's gone from a maddeningly slow saunter (late 80s) to veritable speed-walking. People get in elevators and instantly start pushing the close door button repeatedly. Again, in the cities especially, people have gone from a quaint insularity to a near obsession with the popular and material culture of the west. Pirated disks (music, movies, software), the rapid spread of the Internet, and a steady flow of tourism into and out of the country have of course helped facilitate this. Just to cite one example, take rock music. In 1988, when I started playing music in China, you could count the number of active rock bands in the whole country on your hands. Today there are well over a thousand bands playing original music in Beijing alone. Where back then it was near impossible to find decent guitar strings, drum sticks, or snare drum heads, today in Beijing there are two streets lined with guitar shops stocking vintage Fenders and Gibsons, selling Marshall stacks and Mesa-Boogies, and every stomp box you can imagine. Every year there are hundreds of rock festivals held in cities across China you've never heard of. This is clearly one of those answers that I could go on about forever, and I might! If there's an area of Chinese life you want me to speak to, please leave a comment and let me know and I'll try to add it in.
Are Japanese people as obsessed with status as Chinese and Koreans?
The other side: In one aspect I notice, I would say no, bc in Beverly Hills, Las Vegas, and in our own countries, I see Koreans and Chinese flaunting cash at these joints along with their possessions. Not so much, with Japanese people. In the states, I never saw Japanese people flaunting big houses, nice cars, and brand name clothing. All of that was done by the Koreans, Chinese, and Taiwanese people. You don’t see a flurry of foreign luxury cars in Tokyo, they seem more content and practical with their money. I’m not sure about Chinese in China, but Koreans definitely love to show bling. When I moved here I stayed in Heyri Hills and the whole street was filled with Porches, BMWs, Mercedes, Range Rovers, and Maseratis…all high end models too. I was perplexed and though it was a rich area, even in Seoul and Busan it’s like that. Everyone buys brand name clothing too. I wonder how much their true debt to income ratio is and it’s sad to see them not buy top model Korean cars, which are super nice. People even assume I’m rich bc of my dog. This is the other status that many Asians desire, show! I’m not judging, if you work hard, flaunt it, it’s no business of mine, but I’m glad to be in Korea for the long standing parts of its culture like food and the old ways, not the new. I’m definitely going to get my hands on one of those brooms.
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