Brilliance signs up with booze maker to produce engines?
The link up between Brilliance and Wu Liang Ye is quite possibly one of the more bizarre joint ventures in China (apart from the car made by a cellphone company) to date. Initial thoughts would be that Brilliance and Wu Liang Ye were planning to use some of Wu Liang Ye’s surplus crops to produce ethanol engines, but this is not the case.
On the 28th November the leaders of Liaoning Province and Sichuan Province were alongside the leaders of Brilliance Automotive and Wu Liang Ye as the first stone was laid in the building of new engine factory, which is a joint venture between Brilliance and Wu Liang Ye.
The factory will cover 612mu, and has investment of 1.8 billion RMB, and is set to produce diesel and gasoline engines for small trucks, small displacement car engines, cylinders, ECU systems and automatic gearboxes. The factory is not small scale, with an annual production of 500,000 engines.
Brilliance has plans to broaden its platforms and cars, which will range from 1.0L to 3.0L with power spread from 38kw to 130kw. Brilliance is planning to spread build new passenger cars (including SUV, and new mini sedan) and new MPV’s (The jinbei range will get a new pick up truck, light truck, and breadvan), which require their own engine range and will take Brilliance away from an over reliance on off the shelf Mitsubishi engines.
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Great more crappy engines made by retards.
Go Brilliance! Great news.
A 3 litre at 130kw is hardly worth the effort. Wonder when the hell China is going to wake up to modern diesels!! Hardly great news at all Ed!! and not very ‘Brilliance’ either!
the article made a mistake, it’s actually a 2.4l engine making 130kw, and China doesn’t need to, since their current focus is on electric and alternative fuel source engines.
It’s not a bad looking car!
“Doesnt need to”-what sort of arrogance is that?
It’s the kind of attitude Americans lack and need. China is actually trying to protect the environment instead of driving 6.0l SUVs and fatass trucks when they clearly don’t have the need to. America is the one pointing their dirty fingers at others, while China knows what their main focus is, while protecting the environment at the same time. I suppose I’m the arrogant one??!
Crappy engines!
Not all Americans. You dumb retard!
You can’t say that crap. Ford just released new American eco-boost engines… Keep your Chinese garbage! Better off strapping two tonka trunks to my feet… safer
“Better off strapping two tonka trunks to my feet… safer”
Do that and take pictures then show us, we’ll believe it when we see it.
That’s nothing compared to what Chinese automakers are doing. American failures…
Wot are u talking about Ed??? Wot the hell is this about – diesel engines or some unnecessary jab at the poor downtrodden yankeeees!?
Plus Im not an americano so dont prejudge and also what utter crap is this – “while China knows what their main focus is, while protecting the environment at the same time”
And that last statement is the only thing right in your poorly judged reply “I suppose I’m the arrogant one??!”
Irrelevant conversation. The whole eco-car thing is another marketing ploy at juicing the masses. China, after consideration of the honorable effort to reduce C02 emissions already stated, will still double its emissions by 2020. This is mostly industry related, so what car you drive doesnt matter much…
But am totally for it from a conscious consumer approach. Feels good to drive clean and it keeps your city and neighborhood clean.
Having said that, you got to give credit for the Chinese government’s full acceptance of the climate change issue and their reasonable approach in takling this problem. The same can not necessarily be said fo the US gov.
I would happily drive an electric/hybrid car that doesnt look like crap.
Currently hybrids are in the realm of the weirdy-beardies with the Civic and the Pious, then you have the gigantic SUV’s that have hybrid systems for apparently zero reason.
When will a company produce a car/SUV that is hybrid, and is focused towards the average guy?
I have one qualm with electric/hybrid:
The energy you will use to power your car ultimately depends on a primary power source. Say you drive an electric car in China, are you OK consuming electricity that is almost entirely produced from burning coal?
So you have a few choices:
electricity produced from fossil fuel power plants (either oil, coal, gaz etc) with varying degrees of pollution, the worst I guess being coal and the best being natural gaz.
electricity produced from nuclear fission power plants. There’s clearly different stances on that.
elctricity produced from renewable energy power plants (wind turbines, dams), with again varying degrees of impact on the environment… (i.e. fancy sucking power from the 3 gorges dam?)
That’s an alltogether different pickle, and I have no idea what’s worse in China: a combustion engine or a hybrid/full electric ultimately burning coal?
A majority of China’s electricity does NOT come from coal. Don’t talk blindly if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
This Wuliangye-Brilliance tie-up is not news. Here’s a Shanghai Daily piece going back to mid-2006:
The alcohol giant (Wuliangye) announced last Tuesday (8/15/06) its subsidiary, China Push Group International Co Ltd, plans to spend 384 million yuan (US$48 million) for 46.5 percent of Xinhua Diesel Co Ltd, an affiliate of Brilliance Automobile Go Ltd. Xinhua would then be able to turn out 100,000 vehicles annually in addition to 500,000 units of engines, generating additional sales revenue of 8 billion yuan annually. Brilliance has set a target of an extra 10 billion yuan in sales by 2010 for Xinhua.
Nice looking car!
oh come on don’t take it out on the chinese fools, it’s not their fault that GM and Chrysler are like beggars now. are americans willing to buy GM and Chrysler cars ? oh silly me why need to ask that question, the bankuptcy and the bailout answer the questions already. the starving chinese are so mentally fucked up to keep on buying GM cars.
hey did i say everything right, bitch ?
Who is this racist ass hole bitch thing?? Keep your ridiculous comments and foul tongue too yourself!
I think that you have got it wrong- currently the USA wouldnt exist along with its dying auto industry without China!
You sound like a typical stereotyped naive,ignorant big mouthed Americano rednecked pickup driver complete with a wife beater shirt and basketball cap back to front on your cro – magnon forehead. And no, Im not being racist-only factual.