Archive for the ‘Brilliance/Zhonghua Auto’ category
Brilliance releases 530 official pictures
The Brilliance A4 sedan that we have seen out testing a number of times has been officially named and official pictures released of what is looking like a seriously nice motor. The A4 is now to be known as the Brilliance 530 sedan, other information such as what the car will cost, who designed it [...]
Brilliance concept sedan revealed ahead of Shanghai Auto Show
Brilliance are one of the more advanced car companies in China, they have a solid line up of vehicles that covers pretty much all segments, or it will do once it has the A3 SUV out on the market, but yet its sales are relatively low and it has yet to turn a profit. The [...]
Brilliance reveals official A3 SUV pictures
Brilliance have finally revealed the official A3 SUV renderings ahead of the A3′s launch at the Shanghai Auto Show. The SUV itself highly resembles the BMW X1, who of course are Brilliance’s partner. It’s not entirely clear as to what level of cooperation the two companies have, or if BMW are working with Brilliance on [...]
Brilliance ‘X1′ SUV caught outside again
Like the BMW X1? Cant afford it? No problem, BMW’s Chinese partner Brilliance have produced their own look-a-like for 2011. The two companies are quite comfortable with each other and it is not the first time that Brilliance have borrowed some of BMW’s styling for their own range of cars. The Brilliance SUV is to [...]
Brilliance’s game changing sedans
For the longest time it appeared that Brilliance were either inacapable or unwilling to design a car that had the perfect front and rear end, either the front end was awful or the designers had run out of inspiration by the time they got to the rear, not so on the new sedan which has [...]
Brilliance SUV sighted yet again
The forthcoming Brilliance SUV has been spotted out testing once again and it seems to shedding its camouflage in the warm up to summer. Previous shots of the SUV have been camo heavy, but in the below shots you can easily make out the borrowed BMW styling under the black tape, the lines around the [...]
FAW abandons Brilliance takeover
Brilliance Automotive maybe a small player in the Chinese car market but it does produce a coherent series of vehicles under a much valeted brand, something which the state owned auto makers have been unable to produce, and furthermore it has its own range of MPV’s under the Jinbei series which sell extremely well in [...]
Brilliance preparing mini ‘BMW 5-series’
Briliance’ replacement for the aging BS4 was codenamed the A4 sedan, we’ve shown several pictures of it out testing several times before, but each picture shows a car draped in camouflage that makes it difficult to see what the car is all about, but now we can show you a final picture of the car [...]
Brilliance SUV spotted in China yet again
Brilliance are clearly setting the stage for their new SUV with plenty of image releases – oh you thought those photos were snapped by passers by? The Chinese PR machine is a slick beast and performs exceptionally well, by releasing early photos of the SUV Brilliance will gain a following for the vehicle before its [...]
Brilliance SUV sighted out again – this time looking dapper
Brilliance have some classy looking vehicles in their current line up, so the first pictures of a forthcoming SUV that we posted last week came as bit of a shock. The below pictures show the new SUV sans-camo and clearly has much improved lines and looks to be similar to the Skoda Yeti in terms [...]
BMW working electric 5-Series for China
From EGMCarTech.com The BMW Megacity electric-vehicle will arrive in 2013 but the automaker is working on a separate electric-vehicle specifically for China. According to a report by Chinese newspaper Beijing Youth Daily daily, BMW is working with its joint venture partner Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd. on a new EV that will be built on [...]
Jinbei SUV spotted out, will launch soon
Jinbei are a sub company of Brilliance Automotive and are more famous for their MPV designs rather than their SUV designs. Their first SUV has been sighted out before but this is the first time that we have seen it in such detail. According to what we have learned the Jinbei SUV will be packing [...]
Brilliance SUV spotted out testing to launchin within the year
Brilliance are best known for their classical sedan cars that are well priced and are well within the reach of the every day consumer, they have long wanted to develop a small SUV to enter into the SUV segment which has so far been dominated by Chery’s Tiggo model and Hovers H3 in the self [...]
Brilliance’ new sedan sighted out again
Brilliance have a great knack for making handsome looking sedans that manage to leap over price boundries, they have high end models in the 120,000rmb segment, and they have low end models in the 50,000rmb segment. The BS6 was the first full size model from Brilliance which seems to have won it many fans in [...]
Brilliance to launch new sports sedan in 2011
Brilliance are a much under-rated Chinese company, they are a car company that follows the Western ethic of having a product in each segment, i.e. a sedan, a wagon, a compact hatch, an MPV etc but has failed to grab the attention of the Chinese consumer in the way that Geely or Chery have thanks [...]
Photoblog: 2011 Brilliance Wagon
The Brilliance Wagon never took to the market in a great way, the wagon market was identified as one of the niche markets that Brilliance could move into to fend off pressure in other segments, and other Chinese manufacturers had yet to hit the wagon segment. Brilliance brought out the first wagon in late 2008 [...]
BMW launches own financial services company in China
This new financial services company from BMW will allow it to offer its own loans direct to consumers in China, which could mean a much needed boost in sales if BMW still has desires on becoming the top luxury car maker in China. From Dow Jones: BMW launched an automotive finance company in China on [...]
They made it! Brilliance FRV Cross, with FASHION LINE
At the Beijing 2010 Auto Show Brilliance had a pure white FRV on display, complete with a white interior and a nice pink stripe down the side. Now that car has become a production model. Laughing at the pink carpets and other random pinkness aside, the interior of this FRV seems to have had quite [...]
Brilliance planning to raise quality and safety, plans for Europe officially shelved
Brilliance have officially shelved plans to enter the EU market according to Chinese media reports from earlier today. Several years the German motoring outfit ADAC crash tested a Brilliance vehicle, which according to ADAC would have received zero stars if tested by NCAP, subsequently the car was retested by NCAP in Spain, where it gained [...]
Brilliance to give 400 FSV hybrid cars to Dalian Government
Today at Dalian’s picturesque Xing Hai Square, Brilliance handed over the keys to 400 FSV hybrid sedans to Dalian City Government in an electric car trial that will see the cars handed over to taxi companies for long term testing. Dalian City has been appropriated as a national center for hybrid taxi testing and appears [...]
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