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Mixed Bag at Shanghai Auto Show - Car News
This Mazda 2 (a Mazda 2 for Europe was unveiled at the Geneva auto show) is for the Chinese market, but Ford Motor Company executives at the auto show said a new small car will be added to the mix at Changan in 2008.

Officials wouldn't confirm that it is the promised global B-car that will make it to the U.S. as well, likely in 2009 as a 2010 model, but we'll make the big leap here, since the B-car will share its bones with the Mazda 2.

NAC MG used its home-court advantage for the public debut of its new model range, including the new 7-series and 5-series (honestly, they are scamming the names—no word on pending lawsuits from BMW) sedans and the TF two-seat convertible. China's state-owned Nanjing Automobile Corporation bought the Longbridge, U.K., assets of the bankrupt MG Rover Group in July 2005.

Further confusing the situation, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) bought the intellectual rights to Rover cars and set up shop in its own hall at the show this week to prove its mettle and show off its Roewe brand that so far has only one model: the Roewe 750 based on the Rover 75. SAIC also planned to debut a fuel-cell car to be marketed under the Shanghai brand.

Chinese carmaker Chery Automobile unveiled the Shooting Star concept, a three-door, four-passenger creation from Torino Design of Italy, created to take on the BMW 1-series in the 2009 time frame.

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