The car that changed its name
A concept shown under one badge and sold under another, the accountant who now runs Geely, and the Leng Kee Road showroom that was Zeekr's 500th in the world.
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The bookseller told to write in German
A bicycle sent back by train in 1894, a Golf in a bigger box, a million cars a year, and the three attempts it took to make the badge stick in Singapore.
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The badge Singapore turned away twice
Two e-book engineers and a yellow kit car, a funding round closed on Christmas Eve, a factory bought from Toyota and GM, and the S$15,000 bill that made Singapore's first Tesla famous.
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The professor's electric car
Hub motors at Paris in 1900, a Beetle engine in an Austrian sawmill, the SUV that saved the 911, and the electric Macan launched under the Supertrees.
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The gun factory that learned to drive
Li Hongzhang's arsenal of 1862, China's first jeep, thirty years of Suzukis and Fords, and the deep-blue badge Changan finally put on a car of its own.
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The army-truck giant
A factory hidden in the mountains of Hubei in 1969, thirty years building other people's cars, and a new distributor selling the Box, the Vigo and the 007.
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The watchmaker’s car
A cheap Swiss watch became a two-seat city car, nearly died twice, and came back as a Chinese-built SUV sold by Cycle & Carriage.
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The browser guy builds a car
He Xiaopeng put the internet on a billion cheap phones, then decided the next screen should have wheels.
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