Are Geely going to sell the TX4 Taxi cab in China?

Chinese Car News | Ash | May 4, 2007 at 10:10 am

We were thinking the other day, back to the days of the 70′s and 80′s when every kid on the street said he was a martial arts expert, efforts to coerce the kid into showing off some his deadly martial arts were always in vein. Carl Douglas sang about Kung Fu fighting, ‘where everyone was as fast as lightening….an ancient Chinese art‘ so the song went. The deadly martial arts seem to have gone right out of fashion this year, martial arts as just so passe when you can pull off being British. Nanjing MG, Roewe, and now even Geely are getting in on the act, at the Shanghai auto show 2007 Geely proudly showed off the TX4 taxi cab that they have been contracted to build.

geely tx4 Are Geely going to sell the TX4 Taxi cab in China?

It seems plans are under foot to use the car in China, perhaps knocking the Chinese taxi workhorse, the VW Santana and the smaller Jetta, off the road in favor of a ‘national brand’

Apr. 24, 2007 (China Knowledge) – Geely Group, the nation’s largest privately owned carmaker, may form a national taxi network to boost sales of the London black cabs it plans to begin making in Shanghai next year, Geely chairman Li Shufu said at the Shanghai Auto Show, where the company debuted the first Chinese-made model of the London black cab.

Ash

Ash came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along the way and now focuses his time on watching the Chinese car industry develop. He has witnessed the market change from being minor backyard market in to the world's biggest and most important market for all car manufacturers. You can contact or connect with him via Linkedin by clicking the 'Website' link.