Brilliance V5 SUV to launch at years end

Brilliance/Zhonghua Auto | Ash | October 24, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Brilliance are prepping their first SUV for a launch at the years end according to media reports from earlier today, the V5 will be launched towards the end of the year with a potential Guangzhou Auto Show launch on the cards. The SUV was initially planned to be launched at the Shanghai Auto Show this year but apparently BMW were not too pleased with their Chinese partner launching an SUV that looked awfully like their own BMW X1 SUV so BMW asked them to delay the launch until they got their locally produced X1 into the market.

The new SUV carries on Brilliance’s design language from the H530 and is quite possibly one of the first Chinese manufacturers to have a coherent design language running through out its line up, under the hood a 1.6L and a 1.5T engine will be on tap.

Ash

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