这个文章是来自caranddriver这个杂志。有繁体版。但我看的是英文版的。不适合的东西我给删除了。
Everybody Stand Back China takes to the road.
With China in the midst of an enormous anufacturing boom, automakers are streaming to the world's most populace country in opes of building cors and making deals there. utomotive writer Michelle Krebs tagged along on a recent Cadillac foray into China and filed this story on the driving life there.
Driving in China is nightmarish. In addition to streets clogged with bicycles, cars, and overloaded trucks, drunk driving is enough of a problem that you can buy insurance to protect yourself against it. Well, sort of-it's the drunk who buys the insurance. A Beijing woman, interviewed by lish-language Peoples Daily, said she would gladly buy the policy for her husband as he cannot avoid drinking in his daily business activities. She didn't mention his occupation. It's really no surprise that China is already the world leader in traffic accidents and fatalities. Imagine a place where everyone drives like a teenager. In essence,
that's China. Except for professional drivers, few Chinese have much experience, but that lack isn't stopping the Chinese from obtaining driver's licenses-real and fake-in staggering numbers. However, with a per capita income averaging $1000, only a fraction of people there can afford cars.
New drivers have a same-ben benzu-and a lethal reputation. In Shanghai, they are blamed for half the traffic accidents. Business is booming for driving schools and companies that rent cars with driving coaches. Some Beijing driving schools claim to be signing up over 2000 students a day.
Accident statistics are staggering. China has a scant 1.9 percent of the world's cars, but its drivers are involved in 15 percent of the world's road deaths. Road accidents killed 104,372 people in China last year about 300 per day. By comparison, Americans own 30 percent of the world's cars, drive far more than the Chinese, and 43,220 died last year on US roads. Not surprisingly, dealerships like Buick's store on the skirts of Beijing derive half of their profits from collision repair.
GM forbids its non-Chinese executives working in China to drive. They must hire drivers, a common practice in China. Complicating things, foreigners generally can't drive without obtaining a Chinese driver's license, a red-tape-Iaden process that includes a medical exam and, in some cases, a road test. Apparently, there are some traffic laws. A Chinese-born GM executive reports that she's been ticketed on separate occasions for talking on her cell phone, drinking a beverage,and eating while driving. Chop ticks must ake steering difficult.
GM, Cadillac specifically, is buoyed with hope as luxury sales are booming in China, thanks to sudden wealth of an estimated 10 million new "capitalists" there. Hard to believe, but China is BMW's largest market for the pricey 7-series. Cadillac will first sell the CTS sedan and SRX sport-ute, followed by the XLR roadster and STS flagship sedan. Cadillac general manager Mark LaNeve expects that within two to four years China could become Cadillac's largest market outside the U.S. GM unveiled Cadillacs to hundreds of Chinese dignitaries at the Beijing show last May at an extravaganza that paralleled Hollywood's Academy Awards. Guests walked a red carpet that led to the Imperial Ancestors' Temple at Tiananmen East, not far from Beijing's Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, pulled back the wraps on the Cadillacs. www.CARandDRIVER.com
这个文章主要讲到几点：
中国的事故多。中国占有全世界车辆的1.9%车辆，但是事故伤亡人数却是全世界事故伤亡人数的15%。
现在国人学车的热情高。
新手是事故的主要来源。
外环的北京BUICK店的利润有50％来自车辆碰撞的修理。
中国是BNW的7系列车的最大市场。
有兴趣的，就看看。作者: km2001 时间: 2004-10-10 12:04:38