China's SUV Craze The Chinese are hell bent on surpassing the west in consumerism -- they've now taken a shining to SUVs and are gulping them down at the rate SUVs gulp down gas. SUV growth is expected to surpass growth in the car market by 12% -- however, China is set to implement some of the strictest pollution controls in the summer of 2005, and none of the SUVs on the road today can pass.