{"id":33308,"date":"2025-02-01T20:23:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T20:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33308"},"modified":"2025-02-01T20:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T20:23:02","slug":"new-chinese-motors-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33308","title":{"rendered":"New Chinese Motors in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025020103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe City Daily Photo group\u2019s theme for <a href=\"https:\/\/citydailyphoto.org\/2025\/01\/23\/february-theme-motors\/\">February is &#8220;Motors&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Abingdon, only one motor car dealership sells new motors. A few years ago, I could have bought a new Vauxhall at Bellingers and Fiat or Ford at Hartwell. Bellingers has since moved to nearby Didcot, and the models at Hartwell have changed. They still sell Fords but have introduced some new models: GWM, OMODA and JAECOO.<\/p>\n<p>GWM, or Great Wall Motor, is one of China\u2019s leading car makers. OMODA and JAECOO are new brands, both subsidiaries of Chery, another Chinese car maker.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicles destined for the UK market are made in Chinese factories. However, Chery are preparing to make cars in Spain to avoid EU tariffs, with the UK under consideration for another factory. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c74jgk1kw87o\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c74jgk1kw87o<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Daily Photo group\u2019s theme for February is &#8220;Motors&#8221;. Here in Abingdon, only one motor car dealership sells new motors. A few years ago, I could have bought a new Vauxhall at Bellingers and Fiat or Ford at Hartwell. Bellingers has since moved to nearby Didcot, and the models at Hartwell have changed. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theme-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}