Auto Shanghai 2025 was not just a car show. It was a warning to the West

A long time ago That visit was said China From the West closer to landing in a parallel world. Choose any major city and most aspects that look and feel widely, however the basics are different. You cannot welcome Uber Or use Google Maps To roam, and it will not be your hotel TV Netflix. Instead, there is always a local alternative. It is likely to be the latest, greater, faster, and perhaps better than what you used to go home.

And so on Chinese auto industryThe last opportunity to intimidate daylight from Europe and the United States at the Shanghai Motor Show. The exhibition witnessed the second largest exhibition area in the world, and more than 1,400 cars from 26 countries spread over 13 halls. About 93 vehicles appeared for the first time in the world in front of a million vehicles. YouTubes will later download the entire walk with longer operating times than Between the stars.

How many for the first time in the world is supposed to have occurred at the Geneva International Fair for the year 2024? About ten. No wonder it was Eliminate For 2025.

In Shanghai, Denza BYD displayed its electric competitor Porsche 911.

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To Western eyes, Auto Shanghai’s photos are like the question Chatgpt To re -create the days of the glory of kinetic performances in the past. Anyone who wandered in the Cafe Hosterrooms in Paris, Frankfurt, Genev, Detroit and even Birmingham, and will learn about the new and exciting scene. There are a lot of minerals and glossy carbon, and they are formed in cars of every size that can be conceived, shape and social. But the badges are unfamiliar, typical and meaningless names; Prices are unreasonable, performance claims from another planet.

It is recognized that some cars wear fur like children’s toys, complete with rabbit ears and a tail, but this may be a hallucinogenic intelligence. This still seems to be a kind of automatic offer in Europe and the United States that hosted it every few months in a prior world.

Names like Jetour, DenzaIcar, changan, hongqi and deluxe It will not ring many bells. Continue walking and you will pick up a reassuring glimpse of Audi, Lotus, Buick and Volkswagen, but the spark of familiarity that they bring is extinguished quickly through a blatant awareness: it is no longer in Shanghai to show the local population who was descending how this is done, as is the case in the Western industry that was in the passage of a century of success. They are surrounded by younger and full competitors and they are hungry to put squash in the universe. There is about to be the madness of nutrition.

Awards and individual balls winners

The most prominent thing in the Shanghai offer this year Jetour G900,, Electrical SUV with two turbines installed on the background to be used as a relative; electrical Porsche 911 competitors From Denza owned byd; Award Xpeng M03 Mona; and Maextro S800The luxury sedan competing from Maybach from Huawei.

Yes, that Huawei. The telecommunications company supervises the HAMA HAMA HAMA, which includes brands of cars such as AITO, Stelaato and SAIC, another group of cars that include ROOWE, height of cars, WullingAnd the manufacture of former British sports cars MG, among others.