The automobile,priced at about $2,000, has been billed as the world's cheapest car.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

China is now the world's largest automobile market.

CNN: Oil increases to highest level since 2008

In 1997, Nuccio Bertone, one of the automobile world's great mentors and the doyen of Italian design, died.

CNN: Thursday,

Customers in the world's biggest vehicle market bought 1.6 million cars, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

NPR: China's March Auto Sales Up 13.3 Percent