Suzhou Car Show

Cars and glamour aplenty in Suzhou today (Saturday ) and for the next week. All the usual big names were there including many Chinese brands. One Chinese car even looks suspiciously like a Porsche.

Mind you it’s about 3/4 size of the real Porsche.

It was extremely noisy in the halls. There doesn’t seem to be any regulation in the volume levels you can create. This mind you is common all over China. Businesses play loud music to lure you into their establishment, but to be honest all it really does is make your ears bleed. So in the car show I put on my headphones to try and make it more bearable. Listening to Ramstein on full volume would have done less damage to my ears.

Of course the beauty of a Chinese car show is that there are still plenty of scantily clad young ladies to feast your eyes on.

And some had a bit more class. ..

I liked this young lady because she gave me a wry smile after someone walked in front of me the first time I tried to take her picture.

At the American Cadilac stand there were two predictable white folks there standing like statues. The bloke was like the typical Jock college kind a guy that really looked uncomfortable wearing a suit and may I add, looked as thick as pig shit.

The young lady was the typical blonde, tall and skinny but the evening dress did look a bit cheap. But she still seemed to attract many many admirers.Ken and Barbie I presume?

But there were also some really nice cars here and afterall that’s the reason why a lot of us were here. In fact there were many customers signing up for a new car on the day and there were plenty of young sales people sitting patiently with pens at the ready.

The New Jaguar SUV

The lovely Rolls Royce

The Tesla SUV

The Bentley SUV

But you know the best is still the Range Rover by far. And I could have bought one here for just under 2 million RMB.And you know, even if I had that kind of money I certainly wouldn’t want to drive it in a country where the driving is so bad. I would say it’s scary when your sitting as passenger because you’re not in control of the car. But if I was allowed to drive here I would become very aggressive and I think I would give no quarter.

China is a country where there are millions of learner drivers and a lot of them are in shiny new cars. They don’t think ahead, their lane discipline is shocking. They stop where they feel like it, even on an outside lane. Many of them are not only talking on their phones but looking at them. It’s a miracle there are not more accidents because they don’t seem to perceive potential situations and adapt their driving to suit. It’s either flat out or hand on the horn and hopefully that will make the problem go away.

And so back to the car show. It was interesting to see the European cars beside their American counterparts because it just shows how they are world’s apart. There’s the brash and unsophisticated American design and then the more refined European.