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How China is changing: It is world’s largest consumer of Audi A6 sedans

Half the Audi A6’s in the world are now being sold in China. Especially popular are black ones with dark-tinted windows. But a Chinese journalist who borrowed one to check out the story that women spontaneously hop into them reports that the myth is not true.

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Half the Audi A6's in the world are now being sold in China. Especially popular are black ones with dark-tinted windows.

Half the Audi A6’s in the world are now being sold in China. Especially popular are black ones with dark-tinted windows.

But a Chinese journalist who borrowed one to check out the story that women spontaneously hop into them reports that the myth is not true.

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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