Dongfeng and Yulong to cooperate to make SUV
Dongfeng and Taiwan’s Yulong Motor Corp are planning on working together this year to build a new range of cars for both the Chinese mainland, and Taiwan.
The partnership between a mainland and Taiwanese car company is thought to be the first of its kind, and will see Dongfeng-Yulong work together to produce a new SUV in 2010.
Yulong designed their own MPV for the Taiwanese market, the Luxgen, and plan to introduce it into the Chinese mainland market very soon. The Dongfeng-Yulong SUV is expected to be shown off towards the middle of next year, and will go into production in October 2010 with a 2.0l engine.
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There are actually some precedents to this tie-up between the mainland and their island cousins. Aeolus(Fengshen)Motor Company was an early collaboration to produce Nissan Bluebird sedans, in Guangdong Province, back in 1999. Yulon has a long standing tie-up with Nissan going back to 1957.
Then Yulon’s other ties to Mitsubishi brought them and Soueast together.
Further north Zhongxing Auto attracted Taiwan investment, in the form of Taiwan United Leaders Holdings, after being spun off by Brilliance.
And now of course CCT has made us aware of the other breaking news that even Geely will be working with Yulon to produce the Panda.
For more on Luxgen see: http://www.yulon-motor.com.tw