Guangzhou Auto developing new car based on last generation Honda City
Guangzhou Auto is a relative new comer to the self developed sedan market, for years it has preferred to work with its joint venture partners in Honda and Toyota and more recently Fiat, than work on its own car line up. Something changed at Guangzhou Auto in the past three years where a light suddenly flicked on and they realized it was time to build their own line of cars, Fiat sold them the Alfa Romeo 166 platform and engines which they quickly put into concept form as the TrumpChe (or Chuan Qi) sedan, their next model appears to be the below model:
The spy shots show the Li Nian brand from Guangzhou Auto firmly embossed into the grill, and the interior is very similar to the last generation of Honda City, which Guangzhou Auto used to produce with Honda. The City has seen been replaced by the newer generation of City, a launch date of this Honda City based Guangzhou Li Nian has yet to be announced but it is likely to be a star attraction at this years Guangzhou Auto Show.
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Guangzhou Auto is hopeless. Just like BYD, it has nothing on its own. Where are the engines & gearboxes from? Mitsubishi again? The success of these so-called domestic brands are cancers to China’s auto industry. Sigh !!!