Archive for the ‘Beijing Auto Works’ category
BAIC 301 official pictures released ahead of launch
Imagine you have a business partner, you make cars together, you own the IPR to the design but your partner produces them. Imagine if one day your business partner started making cars that looked exactly like yours, but retailed for two thirds less. Welcome to the Beijing Auto – Daimler relationship. The most dysfunctional automotive [...]
BAIC’s Electric MPV Sighted Ahead of Production
Beijing Auto Industry Works (BAIC) has an uphill battle on its hands, the state owned car company is relatively late in getting its own brand of vehicles to the market when compared to its rivals at FAW and SAIC, both of whom have been running their own brands for a number of years. BAIC was [...]
BAIC B80V – this is not a cloned G Wagon
We’re not quite sure what is happening at Beijing Auto Industry Corp these days, their mini Jeep clone, the BAIC B40 seems to have been launched and then unlaunched, the B70 (a five door version) was due to launch this year but has also disappeared. Their Saab based vehicles are supposedly hitting the production lines [...]
Saab lives on as the BAIC C70
BAIC are going to upset their regional rivals next week by launching the C70 sedan, the Guangzhou Auto Show is in the backyard of the relatively new Guangzhou Auto Company and will be the center piece for their new product launches, Beijing being Beijing will want the world’s eyes on the C70 sedan ahead of [...]
Beijing Auto’s C71 concept comes alive as the C70G
Beijing Auto aired the C71 concept at the Beijing Auto Show over a year ago, but they do not seem any closer to putting the car into production, until now of course. The C71 was put on show to highlight what Beijing Auto could potentially do to the Saab 95 platform that they bought from [...]
BAIC Group plans spin-off listing in 2012
Guo Xinmin, a board director of BAIC Group, revealed the group’s separate listing plan to Chinese media yesterday. The group has four joint-stock companies, Beiqi Foton Motor, BAIC Motor, Beijing Hainachuan Automotive Parts, and Beijing Penglong Auto Trade Service. So far only Beiqi Foton has been listed, and the other three companies will make separate [...]
BAIC’s Saab 9-5 based cars to see production at years end
Beijing Auto Industry Corp (BAIC) bought the rights to the last generation Saab 9-3 and Saab 9-5 in late 2009 in a deal that was worth some 193 million USD, however this amount of money was clearly not enough to assist Saab in its hour of need. Although Saab is currently circling the plug hole [...]
BAIC’s C60 all electric Saab based sedan spotted out testing
Beijing Auto Industry Corporation (BAIC) are eager to get their electric sedan into the market, they have come late to the part with their self developed cars and their own home market has been put on lock down with only 20,000 new car sales happening each month. However, the Beijing municipal government are planning to [...]
Beijing Auto’s T60 sedan – its a Saab 93
What happens when you buy a rapidly aging sedan platform from a Swedish company owned by Americans? Of course you get laughed out of town, especially as everyone told you to hang in there until you get something of Saab that was created in the last decade. Enter the T60: The T60′s sole goal in [...]
BAIC’s C30 series launched in Beijing
Beijing Auto’s Shanghai Auto Show stand was relatively small compared to years gone by, the Saab based sedans were noticeably absent this year but BAIC did bring its C30 hatchback and sedan out into the mainlight The C301 hatchback has been featured on China Car Times many times before, but this is the first time [...]
Beijing Auto to announce small car brand later this month
Beijing Auto are pulling back from their position as a stale producer of 45 year old jeeps and are planning to reintroduce the brand with a boom. Saab based vehicles are expected to illuminate the brand at the end of the year when the cars will finally roll down the production line, but long before [...]
BAW’s B61 SUV spotted out, showing some Jeep vibes
Beijing Auto Works was a major Jeep producer, and to be fair it still is, the first foreign automobile produced in China was the Jeep Cherokee that was made in partnership between AMC and Beijing Auto Works prior to the Chrysler takeover. The forthcoming B61 has already been seen at last years Beijing Auto Show [...]
BAIC eats Baolong
From People’s Daily: BAIC Group, the partner of Daimler AG and Hyundai Motor Co, recently bought a private automaker in Guangdong province to gain a foothold in the southern market and boost its own brand cars. The Beijing-based company closed the deal early this month with Guangzhou Baolong Light Vehicle Manufacturing Co Ltd and the [...]
Beijing Auto’s Saab 9-5 based car to launch at years end
Beijing Auto Works have succesfully completed road testing of their Saab 9-5 based model and will launch their version at the end of the year according to media reports. The Beijing branded 95 has been renamed the C71 for the Chinese market, and will be produced in Beijing City’s Shunyi district, a launch of the [...]
Jeep Cherokee makes it into production as the BAW S12
The Jeep Cherokee was the first foreign car to go into production in China in 1984 after New China’s founding in 1949, and it seems to have struck a chord with Chinese consumers. The Cherokee is a timeless classic, it seems AMC hit the design note on the head the first time around and thus [...]
BAIC’s B40 spotted out naked again, to launch soon
BAIC seemed to have learned quite a bit from ex-partner Chrysler about Jeep production, BAIC’s B40 looks rather like a Jeep Wrangler although it doesn’t have the same power plants as the Wrangler, the B40 could be considered the thinking mans Wrangler due to the similarities between the two vehicles. Engine power for the B40 [...]
BAIC’s 007 SUV pics released and priced
Beijing Auto are getting back into the auto game with the reserection of the Beijing brand, their second car to join the brand is the 007 SUV which is aimed at the compact SUV market. The 007 will officially launch on the 16th January but dealers are already accepting deposits for the car and will [...]
BAIC still looking for overseas expansion
BAIC’s products are still firmly in the early days, but they do have some very interesting products coming soon, particularly the Saab and Chrysler based sedans that they are working on right now, its not clear if they will be going global but they could well be. From Reuters: Even before it launches the first [...]
Beijing’s 007 SUV to launch on 16th January
Beijing Auto are getting back into the auto game with their own range of self developed vehicles in 2011, first we saw the launch of the Beijing C30 MPV hatchback, and now we’re getting the compact 007 SUV. The SUV is expected to have the best of both worlds – a rigid platform but at [...]
Beiijng BC301Z comes down the line in Zhu Zhou
Beijing Auto is back, and they plan to make a decent dent in the Chinese auto market as they did back in their early days of the Chinese car industry in the 1950′s. Beijing Auto got caught in a rut, it became synonymous with being a world war two jeep manufacturer and also a second [...]
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