{"id":1207,"date":"2017-05-09T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2017-05-09T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:01:23","slug":"3rd-may-shanghai-visit-to-saic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"3rd May – Shanghai visit to SAIC"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are met at our hotel at 7:15 by 6 staff members from saic, Aiden, \u00a0Chris, Gary, Hui, Annie & Susan.\u00a0 They also have a photographer with them who will be driving with us today taking photos. Gary, Hui, Susan & Kay will be driving in an MG GS that will lead our team of 8 cars to the biggest of saic\u2019s 3 car manufacturing plants in China. We need to get on the road early to avoid the worst of the Shanghai peak hours traffic that lasts until about 10 am. Kay has a hand held CB radio that she uses to communicate with the teams 8 cars. Aiden, Chris & Annie are travelling in a Roewe (a saic brand) van and they bring up the rear.<\/p>\n

We head out from the hotel at about 7:30 into the Shanghai traffic and head for the highway to take us to the east side of the city. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

We join a highway that has an 80km limit until we change onto a 100km highway, but when we merge onto the highway we slip slowly into a traffic jam that crawls along for tens of kilometres due to road works and one of the 3 lanes is closed. It is a challenge keeping the cars together but we all manage to come together before we have to exit.\u00a0 After 3 hours We arrive at saic at 10:30, just as 1 shift of the workers is going off to their lunch break (they start at 5 am) and they are all quite interested in our little MG\u2019s probably having never seen this MG model before.\"\"<\/p>\n

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We are taken inside where this a showroom with a couple of MG models on display, we are welcomed and shown a brief video\"\" \"\" about saic and given the following mind blowing facts:<\/p>\n