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6000 km, 20 Audi Q3s and 160 participants... Looks like we've got ourselves a convoy across China. Great images from the event...

The Q3 proved to be the ideal car for the journey given that the high driving position enabled us to negotiate traffic bedlam better. And the long travel suspension helped cope with the countless bumps and thumps from the hidden pot holes.

China is not at all what I expected, having only been to the big cities before. Beyond the skyscrapers and neon lights China quickly delves into rural simplicity, if not poverty.

The difference is as stark as the desert beside Las Vegas, except China’s ‘desert’ is just like what you see in the movies: people on bicycles, carrying food and other goods in bamboo baskets.

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Published : Wednesday, 1 February 2012
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