Brilliance SUV to become the V5

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The Brilliance SUV has been posted to the hallowed pages of China Car Times many a time before now, so we will not bore you with yet more pictures of the attractive compact SUV that has more than just a little bit of a passing resemblance to the BMW X1, but we can tell you that Brilliance have finally named their SUV.

For those that are sitting on the edges of your seats gasping for air, we can let you relax by telling you that the new SUV’s name is of course the V5. Obviously the X moniker had already been snapped up by BMW for its own range of cars, so Brilliance went up the Alphabet and chose the next suitable letter.

We can also say that the V5 will be carrying a 1.5T engine and also a 1.6 naturally aspirated engine as with the recently launched Brilliance H530 sedan, both manual and automatic gearboxes will be offered with the new V5 when it launches in early 2012. The exact launch date hasn’t yet been announced, it was supposed to be at the Shanghai Auto Show earlier this year but rumor has it that BMW asked its little friend in Shengyang to delay the launch of the SUV until the Chinese built BMW X1 had been put on show. Perhaps we can see it at the Guangzhou Auto Show later this year, or perhaps we wont.